Tech Lead

Roberts Recruiting • Boston, MA

6d

About The Position

We love people who take ownership of their work and constantly find ways they can make the product and company better. Members of our team are driven to innovate and improve our products and product development processes in order to deliver a platform our customers love to use. We deeply value our engineering culture. We emphasize mentorship and collaboration. Every member of the team has the freedom and responsibility to make it a great place to work. We need deep technical leaders who excel at their craft and want to collaborate and share that knowledge with other engineers. In this role you will lead and mentor small teams of highly talented engineers while building our world class platform. You will solve complex business and scalability problems and define the direction of the product. Lead engineers are completely hands-on. As a lead engineer you will work across our entire technology ecosystem building back-end services and APIs in Ruby and front-end web applications in JavaScript. You will expand our search, data, and operational infrastructure capabilities. 73% of consumers say that rich product content is the single most important factor in their product search and purchase decisions. The digital supply chain is changing and we are at the forefront of this shift addressing the complex needs for brands and retailers. We are backed by top tier venture capitalists and is experiencing high growth. Come be part of the team.

Requirements

• Demonstrably strong object-oriented design skills
• Great problem solving skills
• Good fundamental knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor small teams of highly talented engineers while building our world class platform.
• Solve complex business and scalability problems and define the direction of the product.
• Work across our entire technology ecosystem building back-end services and APIs in Ruby and front-end web applications in JavaScript.
• Expand our search, data, and operational infrastructure capabilities.
• Lead highly talented, independent teams to deliver high quality software.
• Mentor and drive career development conversations for both junior and senior engineers.
• Build web applications and APIs people love to use.
• Define and develop concrete goals and product features from user requirements and high-level product direction.
• Run, monitor, and manage a cloud-hosted SaaS application.
• Design, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed systems.
• Think about the entire architecture of the system and how to work effectively as a team.

Benefits

• Unlimited coffee in a wide range of flavors, as well as cold brew on tap
• A rotating menu of snacks, with weekly lunches on us
• Desks that convert to standing or sitting with the push of a button
• A fantastic location with every flavor of public transportation in close walking distance
• Free on-site yoga twice a week
• A long standing history of celebrating milestones and company successes as a team
• An office quadcopter and a few tricycles
• A commitment to supporting ongoing learning through funding conference attendance and other professional development resources
• A palpable excitement, optimism and commitment to the success of our company across our team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed