Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: AI Coding in Telford

Job Description

For one of our leading clients, we are searching for a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer (Ruby & AI Platform) to join their AI Events team. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and design to build the event-driven infrastructure and trigger systems that power automated AI workflows across the software development lifecycle.
Role Responsibilities

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• Design and build trigger systems that connect GitLab events, including code pushes, merge request and issue changes, CI/CD results, and deployments, to AI-powered workflows

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• Develop integrations for third-party events from tools such as Jira, Jenkins, and Slack

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• Contribute to the core event platform that enables AI features to determine when and how workflows should run

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• Architect systems for high availability, reliability, and throughput, ensuring events are processed effectively at scale

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• Build and maintain production functionality within a large, established Ruby on Rails monolith

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• Influence product and architecture direction by proposing iterative solutions to complex technical challenges across a multi-service environment

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• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI platform teams to expand trigger capabilities and support the wider agent ecosystem

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• Participate in Tier 2 and Tier 3 on-call rotations, troubleshooting production, security, and urgent engineering issues

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Requirements

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• Have deep commercial experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, including working effectively within a large production monolith

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• Have a proven track record building user-facing products that integrate Large Models

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• Have extensive experience designing and operating large-scale systems focused on high availability and throughput

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• Have hands-on experience developing agentic systems and workflows that allow AI agents to take autonomous action

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• Demonstrate the ability to make progress in evolving problem spaces and learn emerging AI capabilities quickly

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• Possess strong written communication skills for collaborating asynchronously within a remote, globally distributed team

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• Additional experience with Python, developer tooling, or GitLab as a product would be beneficial

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Role Details:

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• Location: Remote

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• Tech Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, LLMs, AI Agents, Event-Driven Architecture, CI/CD, Jira, Jenkins, Slack

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• Employment: Freelance

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