Position: Lead Ruby Engineer
Company: Surprise
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Requirements**

- 5+ years of Rails development
- Experience in developing API-only applications
- Strong knowledge of Ruby 2.6+, Rails 5-6
- Relational DB’s (preferably PostgreSQL)
- Background processing (Sidekiq), Redis
- Experience in leading at least 1 pod of engineers before
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Track record of making all local technical and architecture decisions
- Track record of building a strong local engineering culture and holding everyone accountable
- Extensive experience doing code reviews and coaching more junior developers
- Experience in high-velocity feature development focused projects before (b2b, b2c)
- Very strong technical background (computer science or math degree)

**Nice to haves**

- Experience contributing along the full web stack (Rails, Postgres, Javascript, HTML, CSS)
- An interest in collecting data from disparate sources, whether via APIs or other means
- Experience working within a geographically dispersed team
- Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities
- High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual
- Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement