Ruby on Rails Engineer — Remote-First, Scalable Backend

MRJ Recruitment; Greater Manchester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangement

Monthly meetups in Manchester

Supportive team culture

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Ruby Developer to join a remote-first team focused on building robust SaaS applications. You will contribute across the entire development lifecycle, emphasizing clean code and maintainability. Ideal candidates have strong experience with Ruby on Rails and a passion for quality software development while participating in an agile product team. Monthly meetups in Manchester encourage team bonding and collaboration, creating a supportive work culture.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience writing Ruby (Rails) in production environments.
• Good understanding of object-oriented design, method lookup, and module usage in Ruby.
• Experience with testing strategies, and when to use unit vs integration tests.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, idiomatic Ruby code in a collaborative team.
• Design scalable, performant systems focusing on composition over inheritance.
• Lead writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.

Skills

Ruby (Rails)

Object-oriented design

CI/CD

Testing strategies

AWS

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Job description

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Ruby Developer to join a remote-first team focused on building robust SaaS applications. You will contribute across the entire development lifecycle, emphasizing clean code and maintainability. Ideal candidates have strong experience with Ruby on Rails and a passion for quality software development while participating in an agile product team. Monthly meetups in Manchester encourage team bonding and collaboration, creating a supportive work culture.