As a lead engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
Lead technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically.
Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in architecture and design discussions
Set up solid processes and practices around code quality, conventions, and standards
Grooming and Prioritization of Technical Debts
Leading and Contributing towards organization-wide tech initiatives
Mentoring Interns and Senior engineers
Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives.
We are looking for:
Strong and self motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
Extensive experience in building web based products
Experience of leading a small team
Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences.
Overall of 6+ years expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
Expertise in Database modelling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks and writing optimized DB queries
Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
A keen eye for quality with regard to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage,
Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders
Nice to have (optional):
Knowledge of the technical interview process and how roles like backend/frontend/DevOps engineers are vetted
It is good to have knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker and related deployment technologies
Web application security best practices and knowledge of common application security vulnerabilities XSS, SQL injection, etc
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