Position: Backend Tech Lead (RoR) (Mexico) (Argentina)
Company: Svitla Systems, Inc.
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Our client is a is a San Francisco-based company with the mission of unlocking organizations’ potential through the power of learning together. We create cutting-edge learning technology that enables our clients to offer engaging impactful online learning experiences at scale based on the foundations of experiential learning, active learning, peer and collaborative learning, mentorship and coaching. Our technology is adopted by many Fortune 500 companies and is the backbone to providing professional development opportunities, upskilling and reskilling their employees. The engineering team is a globally distributed team with team members in SF, in the US east coast, Mexico, and Kerala, India. We are looking for a backend technical lead to join our team in Mexico. Most of our team members are located in Guadalajara, however we are remote friendly and we would love to talk to you wherever you are located in Mexico.

**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of experience managing high-performing backend teams.
- 5+ years of experience writing SQL queries using object relational data interfaces.
- 10+ years of experience in writing backend code 5+ years of experience designing and analyzing the performance of backend applications.
- 3+ years of ruby on rails experience.
- A CS Degree or equivalent.
- Empathetic, inclusive team leader with a proven track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to their growth.
- Business minded and outcome driven leader who can communicate clearly about challenges and brings a problem solving attitude to the table.
- Fluency in English.

**Will be a plus:**
- Experience with Ruby, Python or PHP.
- Experience with Memcached and Redis.
- Experience with information retrieval and real time search.

**Responsibilities:**
- Lead a team of backend engineers with kindness, empathy and open mind.
- Mentor backend engineers and provide them with growth opportunities in your team.
- Collaborate with client-side developers and technical lead in web and mobile development to design new product features and concepts.
- Ensure team performance and delivery of team objectives.
- Provide guidance on key technical decisions in your backend team.
- Evaluate the quality and health of our systems and code, advocate for engineering work that will benefit our business and our end users.

**We Offer:**
- Legal IMSS contract (no mix schema).
- 10 vacation days after 1st year.
- 5 PTOs per year after 3rd month.
- 10 Mexican national holidays.
- 25% Vacations Bonus.
- 30 salary days as Christmas Bonus.
- Comprehensive Health and Life insurance.
- Health insurance for family members.
- Remote work support.
- Flexible Home Office depends on a project.
- Optional English lessons.
- Professional growth support.
- Monthly MXN 1,000.00 pantry vouchers.
- Svitla referral program.