Full job descriptionFor 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

Requirements*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

Role Details:*Location: Remote
*Tech Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, LLMs, AI Agents, Event-Driven Architecture, CI/CD, Jira, Jenkins, Slack
*Employment: Freelance