We are looking for a Technical Team Lead (Ruby) to lead a team of Ruby Software Engineers to support a global online food delivery marketplace.
Required Technical Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or ample real-world experience
- 7+ years professional software development experience with a modern web framework like Django or Rails. Expertise in Rails is a must
- Experience building and maintaining a large-scale, high-availability web application with an active and growing user base
- Expertise in developing integrations with external products using Ruby On Rails
- Experience with relational database design fundamentals (PostgreSQL)
- Familiar with stability challenges of running large scale Ruby on Rails applications
- Distributed version control expertise with Git
- Confidence writing tests for high-risk functionality like financial transactions
- Practice designing and implementing RESTful web service APIs
- Team player with excellent written and spoken English communication skills
Principal Accountability | Team Leadership
- Ensures the whole team understands the technical plan, reasons for it, and adherence to it.
- Translate and break-down strategic technical vision into a consumable form for the team
- Assure team productivity meets a high standard that can be quantified
- Low-level development, testing and deployment tasks have ownership by team members
- Carries out root cause analysis on defects to ensure fixes are happening in the right way
- Helps team members define clear, small, and testable tasks
- Encourages collective code ownership through CI and promotes frequent code check
- Enforces the team’s Definition of Done
- Liaises between the team and management to assure needed skills are represented on the team
- Maintaining an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness.
- Resolves defects in a timely and effective manner
- Identifies tactical risks and raises/resolves issues effectively
- Ensures that operational teams are effective during deployment (dry-run or production)
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