Opus Recruitment Solutions
European Union
Senior Ruby Engineer (Full Stack with Hotwire/Backend)
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Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch) - Remote Europe
European Union
Full Remote
AI Summary
Seeking a Senior Backend Developer with strong Ruby on Rails and Elasticsearch expertise for a rapidly scaling European SaaS business. This role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing scalable backend systems, APIs, and search capabilities. Key requirements include commercial experience with Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, REST APIs, and relational databases.
Key Highlights
Key engineering hire for a high-growth European SaaS business.
Focus on building scalable backend systems, improving platform performance, and enhancing search capabilities.
Requires strong commercial experience with Ruby on Rails and deep hands-on experience with Elasticsearch.
Key Responsibilities
Designing and building scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails
Developing and maintaining RESTful APIs
Optimising search functionality and query performance with Elasticsearch
Improving backend scalability, reliability, and system performance
Working closely with Product, Frontend, and DevOps teams
Contributing to architecture decisions, testing standards, and CI/CD processes
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Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote anywhere in Europe
Competitive salary not tied to location
High-growth product environment with strong technical ownership
Collaborative engineering culture
Career development and continuous learning support
International meetups and team events
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Nice to Have
GCP or cloud-native environments
CI/CD and DevOps exposure
Distributed systems and performance optimisation
Background job processing frameworks
Job Description
Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails & Elasticsearch) | Remote Europe
We’re partnering with an innovative European SaaS business that’s scaling rapidly across international markets and looking to hire a Senior Backend Developer with strong Ruby on Rails and Elasticsearch expertise.
This is a key engineering hire within a high-performing product team focused on building scalable backend systems, improving platform performance, and enhancing search capabilities across large datasets.
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