Senior Backend Engineer — Rails & AI-Driven Platform

Scor; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

SCOR Digital Solutions, the technology arm of SCOR, is seeking a senior software engineer to join the RAS engineering team in Rotterdam. The role is backend-focused, with Ruby on Rails preferred, and candidates with other MVC stacks are welcome if they can demonstrate equivalent skills.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services, integrate agentic AI workflows, contribute to testing, automation, documentation, and production support, and collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one MVC backend framework; Rails preferred.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and relational databases.
• Experience with AI tooling to augment development workflows.
• Proven ability to design, code, test and debug without AI assistance.
• Experience with Git and collaborative workflows.
• Familiarity with AI concepts or agent-based systems.
• Experience with containers, cloud platforms, CI/CD is a plus.
• End-to-end ownership from delivery to production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services in Rails or an equivalent MVC framework.
• Support the planning of technical design and architecture for new features and systems.
• Manage the development, orchestration, and maintenance of agentic AI agents within the RAS platform.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end product features.
• Implement and maintain automated testing, using AI-driven tooling where appropriate while demonstrating the ability to author and debug tests manually.
• Conduct code reviews using AI-assisted tooling while applying sound manual judgment on quality, security, and maintainability.
• Contribute to database design and optimization.
• Automate and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, incorporating AI agents where viable.
• Participate in incident response and production troubleshooting, with the ability to diagnose issues independently without AI assistance.
• Maintain technical documentation, using AI to draft and structure content while ensuring accuracy through manual review.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

RESTful API design

AI tooling

Git

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Production support

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SCOR Digital Solutions, the technology arm of SCOR, is seeking a senior software engineer to join the RAS engineering team in Rotterdam. The role is backend-focused, with Ruby on Rails preferred, and candidates with other MVC stacks are welcome if they can demonstrate equivalent skills.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services, integrate agentic AI workflows, contribute to testing, automation, documentation, and production support, and collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver