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# Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: AI Coding

- **Company:** Opus Recruitment Solutions
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £156,000.0 - £195,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Software Engineering, System Availability, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Gitlab, Build Management, AI Platforms, Slack, 3-tier Architectures, Automation Anywhere, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-ruby-ai-engineering-ai-coding/57284393

## About the Role

* Have deep commercial experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, including working effectively within a large production monolith
 * Have a proven track record building user-facing products that integrate Large Language Models
 * Have extensive experience designing and operating large-scale systems focused on high availability and throughput
 * Have hands-on experience developing agentic systems and workflows that allow AI agents to take autonomous action
 * Demonstrate the ability to make progress in evolving problem spaces and learn emerging AI capabilities quickly
 * Possess strong written communication skills for collaborating asynchronously within a remote, globally distributed team
 * Additional experience with Python, developer tooling, or GitLab as a product would be beneficial

## 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

 * 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
 * Develop integrations for third-party events from tools such as Jira, Jenkins, and Slack
 * Contribute to the core event platform that enables AI features to determine when and how workflows should run
 * Architect systems for high availability, reliability, and throughput, ensuring events are processed effectively at scale
 * Build and maintain production functionality within a large, established Ruby on Rails monolith
 * Influence product and architecture direction by proposing iterative solutions to complex technical challenges across a multi-service environment
 * Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and AI platform teams to expand trigger capabilities and support the wider agent ecosystem
 * Participate in Tier 2 and Tier 3 on-call rotations, troubleshooting production, security, and urgent engineering issues


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