Job description
ONLY FOR PROFESSIONALS BASED IN ARGENTINA & URUGUAY
At Ryz Labs we are looking for an ENGINEERING TEAM LEAD to join one of our client’s teams. The client has a simple mission: use tech to combine an unparalleled level of customer service with the fastest delivery in the promotional product blank apparel industry. They help millions of small businesses build their vision from scratch!
You will be working closely with the North American product team to build high-quality solutions across multiple product streams and be responsible for growing the remote hub, the productivity of the team, and the quality of their work. You will have a good balance between technical and people skills and be able to coordinate the team’s activities across the different stages of the product development lifecycle: understanding business requirements, Ruby on Rails development, code review, unit testing, deploying changes, and engaging with project stakeholders.
Qualifications & Skills
- Deep experience in building web applications at scale using Ruby on Rails
- Demonstrable experience in leading, growing, and developing engineering teams
- Solid understanding of front-end technologies HTML/CSS/Javascript/ES6/AJAX
- Understanding of Javascript frameworks such as VueJS/React and experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling
- Expert in the use of server-side templating languages (such as ERB, HAML, etc depending on your technology stack)
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as SASS, based on project requirements)
- Experience with Bootstrap or another grid-based library
- Strong debugging experience and ability to solve production issues
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git)
- Experience with agile story tools such as JIRA or Pivotal Tracker
- Strong understanding of current technology trends
Key Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Design robust, scalable, and secure features
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Mentor others on various parts of the front-end technology stack
- Influence team members and provide expert knowledge and advice to validate
- their design and implementation approaches
- Provide input on team building and hiring processes
- Run stand-ups for team
- Write documentation
- Perform code review with team members
- Ensure sufficient test coverage
- Identify issues in platform
- Performance tuning
About RYZ Labs
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world’s largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.
Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries,planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.
At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.
Our values and what to expect:
Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer
Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated
Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility
Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect
Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less
Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way
Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be
