Position: Lead RoR engineer
Company: Svitla Systems, Inc.
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine.

Our client is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enable companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Their mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

We are looking at options to stand up a squad of resources for the new SCRM team in Europe (teams are Germany and Poland based). The make-up of the squad would look like this: 4 x Senior Ruby on Rails Engineers (one of the Engineers would need to take a technical lead role) 1 x QA (Technical – comfortable with Selenium & Postman, and can do manual test cases if needed) – we can get elsewhere if you don’t provide. The team would be expected to work together with our people to deliver a project.

The project will be focused on implementing the common UI Header and Navigation, along with the B2C authentication and entitlements (for 6 months with a possible extension).

**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of experience in team management.
- Strong organizational skills to give the team direction.
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior management and other departments.
- Experience in the development of web applications with Ruby on Rails.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and modern approaches in software development, including CI/CD.
- Understanding why and how to test your code and have an opinion on TDD.
- A big passion for web development and software engineering in general.
- Willingness to solve complex problems together with your team.
- An agile mindset and appreciate the agile methodology.
- You do not hesitate to question the status quo.
- **A strong command of English.**

**Responsibilities:**
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the team.
- Motivate the team to achieve organizational goals.
- Develop and implement a timeline to achieve targets.
- Delegate tasks to team members.
- Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
- Contribute to the growth of the company through a successful team.
- Create a pleasant working environment that inspires the team.
- Work in an agile company that develops a successful, Al-based supply chain risk management application.
- Be ready to transform tickets into code and be a full-fledged member of an Agile Team that works towards a standard product vision.
- Play a significant role in implementing new features while maintaining the current product.
- Contribute to the improvement of our backend architecture.
- Share your knowledge and technical expertise across the entire product development department

**We Offer:**
- US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
- Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
- Annual performance appraisals.
- Flexibility in workspace, either remote or in one of our development offices.
- Comprehensive medical insurance including dental and massages.
- Sport reimbursement program for onsite and online activities.
- Support of a healthy lifestyle, compensation for running events.
- Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
- Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.
- Personal loan budget available for long-term personnel.
- 20 vacation days, 10 national holidays and sick leaves.
- Maternity leave policy and family days off.
- Full compensation for conferences, courses, English classes.
- Free webinars, meetups and conferences organized by Svitla.
- Gifts for birthdays, New Year, anniversaries, children and more.
- Corporate celebrations and activities, regular lectures on various topics.
- Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!