What You Will Bring:

• An ability to write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• An understanding and ability to make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in their area; ability to work in other areas of the codebase with guidance.
• Tenacity in the face of roadblocks and dispatches them efficiently, pulling in others as necessary. Requires minimal direction/oversight. Actively helps teammates unblock their work.
• Effective communication that helps foster a culture of delivering praise and constructive feedback within the team and the team’s respective business stakeholders.
• Ability to work cross-functionally well with Product, Design, Operations, and Sales as necessary.
• Ability to facilitate team discussions, including helping others approach constructive conflict with a "strong opinions held loosely" approach.
• History of leading projects within a team with a high rate of success.
• Strong Mentorship experience and ability to foster meaningful relationships in and across your team.
• Ability to identify problems with the team and process, investigate potential causes, work with the team to propose solutions/next steps, and make sure the fixes are prioritized and completed.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate closely with senior leadership to set, promote, and execute the organization’s architectural roadmap.
• Partner with senior leadership to align the architectural roadmap with the overall product strategy.
• Serve as a technology stakeholder in large cross-functional initiatives.
• Build POCs of new technologies and features to test their viability.
• Consult with internal and external stakeholders during the project discovery process to assess the feasibility and lift.
• Work closely with Senior and Lead engineers on how to better guide their teams’ technical direction and decision-making.
• Aid development teams in building their domain knowledge and building their process and development practices.
• Mentor and sponsor the technical decisions and growth of our outstanding engineers.
• Understand team goals as well as the goals of their teammates. Works with the EM to find tasks/projects that will help teammates work towards their goals.
• Help continually shape and refine the technical hiring process to ensure we’re evaluating candidates in an effective way.

What Skills Will Help You Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable Ruby on Rails and/or React apps.
• Experience with deployment platforms (AWS, Heroku, etc..)
• Expertise in building secure, tested REST API’s.
• Relational DB schema design experience.
• An excellent understanding of CS fundamentals: data structures, design patterns, etc.
• Willingness to work programming languages outside of our core stack (Ruby on Rails and React).
• Experience building service-oriented architectures and RESTful APIs.A passion for well-written, highly tested code.
• Experience with AWS services including EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, or equivalent cloud computing services a large plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.