Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer

About

Hawksworth UK are hiring 1 Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer to join a forward-thinking, engineering-led financial services organisation transforming its core platforms.

The Roles

• Lead Engineer – £110k–£115k + 10–15% bonus + excellent package

Location

Remote-first, with occasional travel to London or Potters Bar.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building and evolving a modern Ruby on Rails mortgage platform
• Designing scalable, secure, and resilient systems used at real-world scale
• Working in product-aligned, empowered teams with true ownership
• Driving CI/CD, DevOps practices, and automation across the stack
• (Lead) Setting technical direction and mentoring engineers

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails | MySQL | JavaScript (React desirable) | CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab) | Cloud (Azure)

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Ruby on Rails experience (MVC, APIs)
• Solid grounding in software engineering best practices
• Experience with agile, DevOps, and modern delivery models
• Passion for building high-quality, secure, production-ready systems
• (Lead) Experience leading teams or owning technical delivery

Why Join?

• Play a key role in transforming a business-critical platform
• Work in an engineering-first, cloud-focused environment
• Real autonomy, ownership, and influence over how things are built
• Strong salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefits
• Flexible, remote-first working

Interested? Please apply now or contact me at Richard@hawksworthuk.com We look forward to hearing from you!