Technical Lead - Back end Engineering

Responsible: ● Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy ● Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities ● Directly or indirectly drive BE projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment ● Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level ● Hire, onboard, develop and manage Back-End (BE) engineers ● Manage Tech Debt management ● Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product lines, products and features ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building highly reusable codebase ● Provide the mentoring and guidance to BE engineers. Create an environment for BE engineers to continually reach new heights within their career Requirements: ● 10 plus years solid experience in back end open source based technologies, including at least 4 - 5 years in Ruby or RoR cloud based ecosystems ● 4 plus years solid experience as a technical lead, including at least 2 years in large scale platform environment ● CS degree required or equivalent work experience ● Solid procedural and object oriented Software Engineering fundamentals ● 3 plus years of relevant experience managing fast-paced and dynamic Scrum team ● A proven track record of senior level software engineering and architecture accomplishments in a high-capacity, large-scale, internet-based product platform ● Capable of technical deep-dives, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with senior technical or product leadership ● Comfortable recruiting a team of very bright, experienced engineers capable of working on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered ● Very experienced with Agile / Scrum methodologies ● Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral ● Expert understanding of RoR framework ● Solid understanding of AWS services ● Solid experience with containerized applications and serverless functions ● Strong understanding of and experience with testing practices ● Strong automation and CI / CD experience ● Pivotal Tracker or Jira, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub tools experience, some would say you are a master ● If I asked your previous team members about you, they would say you were a great leader and even better contributor. They would also very much welcome an opportunity to work for you once again