Lead a team of mid/senior backend engineers to own the backend architecture and technical vision for mobile-first, consumer-facing apps used by hundreds of thousands of users.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional backend development experience in production environments and most recent experience in leading a backend teams
- Proven experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app
- Strong hands-on expertise with Ruby On Rails
- Experience building and scaling high-traffic systems (Over 10k+ daily active users) with a focus on performance and reliability
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, relational databases, caching, and performance optimization
- Practical experience working in the cloud (preferably AWS) and collaborating closely with DevOps / infrastructure engineers
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Background in a startup or fast-moving product companies, comfortable with changing priorities and making pragmatic trade-offs
- Strong product mindset, user-focused, impact-driven, and able to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
- Comfortable taking ownership, making decisions, and leading in a fully remote, distributed team environment
Benefits
- 30k USD bonuses (seasonal + EOY, dependant on individual and company performance)
- 27 days of paid vacation (15 days of personal leave + 12 days of public holidays following your local country calendar)
- Company paid team trips, 1–2 times per year to attractive locations (e.g. Thailand, Bali) including flights and accommodation
- Opportunity to shape technical direction, processes, and standards for the entire backend function
