Position: Tech Lead Ruby Engineer
Company: Nearshorefriend
Experience required: 5y
Category: Ruby
English level: upper
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**What makes the role exciting?**
Identity fastest growing team and high in demand product, everyone needs it. More than 50% of all requests are with ID - enormous traffic. It has the oldest code in Solarisbank - work will mostly be on legacy code and you will work on the existing code and improve it. There is a lot of pressure from the business as it's the most important and fundamental code within the business. In the past and due to the aforementioned pressure - we have not been able to pay too much attention to high quality code. Now this will be one of the most urgent tasks: In cooperation with the Product Owner and the EM you will be in charge of catching up, scaling the API and generating the quality and raising the bar on you and your team. Make the documentation flawless and fight for a high standard of quality code.

-You have a solid experience with **Ruby**
-Ideally you have profound experience with **AWS**
-You have **microservices** knowledge
-You understand agile workflows and lean principles
-You are a proactive peer and help the growth of your team
-You are a curious, constant learner and share your learnings with others
-You know how to keep a work-life balance
-You communicate well in written and verbal English, German is a plus

**Current Team**
New team due to growth  - team members there for average 1 year. 10 engineers split onto two teams. In the role as the lead the focus is technical more than people management. In cooperation with the EM you will help support the growth of the engineers. The heavy focus will be to collaborate with the EM and the PO in the strategie of delivery and also how to provide data on what is possible and what is not - supporting them to push back on the business for example.

**As a Tech Lead you will**

- Ensure on-time delivery of new API endpoints
- Maintain and evolve existing API functionalities
- Deliver quality code in an efficient manner
- Take end-to-end ownership of our fleet of microservices
- Contribute to our infrastructure and automation tools
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, agile coaches and product owners
- Ensure a bi-directional flow of information between your team and the tech-wide organization