Job Description
As the strategic and hands-on leader of our engineering team, you'll shape the technical roadmap while driving outcomes through people - fostering a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement. This role blends architectural direction with a passion for mentoring and technical execution. With 5+ years of full-stack Rails experience and 2+ years leading or managing high-performing teams, you bring a proven ability to scale systems, deliver secure and maintainable code, and inspire others to do their best work. Your deep involvement in both people and product makes you the kind of leader who builds not just great software, but great teams. If you're ready to lead with intention and code with purpose, let's talk!
Spend your days:
- Managing and mentoring a team of developers, providing guidance, support, and fostering skill development
- Collaborating with product team to estimate scoped work and build out Product Roadmap
- Tracking and managing team capacity and velocity based on workload
- Maintaining infrastructure and technical services, including billing and IT changes to be SOC-2 Compliant
- Serving as the last line of defense of server availability (outages, incidents, etc.)
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable web applications and systems using Rails
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, timelines, and deliverables
- Writing, reviewing, and ensuring code quality, focusing on security, scalability, and maintainability
- Building and maintaining integrations with third-party APIs to enhance product functionality
- Implementing and promoting modern development practices, including pair coding and continuous learning
- Overseeing performance management - setting goals, providing feedback, and conducting reviews
- Staying current with industry trends and applying innovative technologies to improve processes and products
- Leveraging practical AI expertise to identify, evaluate, and integrate AI-driven features and tools that improve product functionality, development workflows, and operational efficiency
- Using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) framework to guide development and enhance workflows