For a client,
we are looking for an
Engineering
Lead
to join our
Platform
squad and help us build the
infrastructure, developer tools, and frameworks that deliver amazing
educational experiences to the children of the millions of families that use
our mobile application.
At our client’s platform, they encourage candidates of
all different backgrounds and identities to apply. They actively seek to hire
individuals with different perspectives and eager to continue diversifying their
company's culture. They strive to be an inclusive, supportive place where you
can do the best work of your career.
Our client’s offices are in Madrid, Spain but the
position is open to anyone within 2 hours of the CET timezone.
About the job:
As the
Engineering Lead
for our
Platform
Squad
you will take ownership, build upon, and improve the
infrastructure, developer tools, and frameworks used by our product squads, as
well as line managing and providing technical leadership to the engineers in
Platform.
This is primarily a hands-on role: the
management/leadership aspects will grow as the team scales.
More specifically, you will:
Use your
analytical skills to understand the needs of our product squads, and turn
them into simple, well-documented, scalable, and secure services for them.
Document
technical and architectural decisions for the benefit of both engineering
and product audiences.
Improve
and expand the system we use to track user activity and extract insights
across our platform.
Maintain
and improve internal services and infrastructure such as:
Our AWS
deployment toolchain
A
Redis-backed message broker
Integrations
with third-party billing services (AppStore, Play Store, Stripe,
Braintree)
Integrations
with third-party analytics, CRM, and customer success services
Help keep
our majestic monolith (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq) lean
and modular.
Own your work
from development to production and ensure its quality, maintainability and
supportability.
Line
manage engineers within the Platform squad (including 1-1s; performance
management; career development).
Provide
technical leadership to engineers within Platform: helping to scope and
prioritise work, mentoring, helping to resolve blockers and arbitrating
any technical disputes.
Take part
in hiring and growing the team.
About you:
The ideal teammate for us would be someone who
believes that communication, empathy, inquisitiveness, and open mindedness are
fundamental to being successful in any endeavour.
You should have:
Considerable
experience designing and developing APIs with Ruby on Rails (or similar
languages/frameworks) that scale to thousands of requests per
minute.
A deep
understanding of the backend stack: HTTP, Relational Databases, Background
Processing Systems, Asynchronous Messaging Systems
Experience
in both horizontal and vertical scaling of backend systems
A DevOps
mentality of owning a service all the way to production.
An
appreciation for good User Experience (our engineers are our users and our
tools strive to reflect that)
The
ability to manage and lead with empathy, supporting those on your team
achieve their best
English is a must. We are a multicultural team and we
are providing a service in English so, we don't care about certificates but we
expect you to be able to communicate fluently.
You should feel equally comfortable communicating in
long-form writing. Given the circumstances, we have become a fully remote
company and we are firm believers that being articulate in both spoken and
written long-form asynchronous communication is key to working efficiently together.
If you think you don't tick all the boxes, we'd still
love to hear from you. Nobody checks every box, and we are looking for someone
excited to join the team.