Position: Backend Team Lead
Company: Ruby Labs
Category: Golang
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

About Us
Ruby Labs Ltd (RL) is a fast-growing start-up established in London in 2018. RL operates the biggest astrology mobile app with the mission to educate people by simplifying astrology for greater awareness, and on its track to launch the mobile fitness app in early 2021.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Backend (GoLang) Team Lead, who will join our team and participate and help us to build top-notch backend services for our products (Hint / Able). Working alongside developers and will be responsible for leading the team and maintain backend infrastructure and architecture. We require a person with a passion for collaborative problem solving, and a willingness to deliver products with the highest quality. Strong communication skills and hard skills required.

This is a truly exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, self-funded start-up that strives hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment.
Responsibilities
Product
Split product requirements into technical tasks, provide delivery plans with intermediate milestones.
Responsible for story points estimation and technical requirements.
Backend team lead
Lead the team and be the main point of contact for the project deliveries.
Provide technical leadership and contribute to the core team that powers our backend services
Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
Maintaining & keeping up-to-date backend technical documentation(swagger, confluence)
Architect
Responsible for back-end architecture.
Collaborate with engineers to make key decisions about development practices.
Identify and analyse the best way to resolve production bugs.
Drive the qualitative aspects of the backend services, like performance,
Scalability, observability, reliability and security and so on.
DevOps
Create and own the continuous delivery pipeline.
Coordinate release and delivery logistics.
Abou you
5+ years of experience as Developer
2+ years of experience as Golang Backend Developer
Experience in developing REST API based, distributed and Microservices architecture systems involving Kafka, Redis, etc,.
Experience with GCP and Kubernetes
Proven record of leadership of development teams, including coordination of team members and successful delivery of projects
DevOps experience
Strong communication skills
Nice to have
Experience with log aggregation systems like Grafana/Loki

The Team
You will be joining a strong team of ~40 people passionate about building the best-in-class product. RL has incredible team members, users, and ambitions... which is where you come in.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build and grow one of the most exciting astrology products which will shape the future of how people consume astrology services.

We are a remote-first company, and our product team is distributed across Europe while our chat operators and content management are located on-site in Malta. This was a deliberate choice to prioritise work-life balance and ensure we're able to accommodate the best people in Europe, whilst fostering diversity.

Our Values
#Kindness
“When we are kind, it is not only good for the object of our kindness; it is also good for our own health and happiness.” Professor Stephen Post, author of “Why Good Things Happen to Good People”

#Inclusion
Cultivate a work environment where all team members feel respected, treated fairly, empowered, recognized, safe, and heard—one where they have the opportunity to excel. An environment in which everyone truly feels included.

#Balance
Work-life balance is the state of equilibrium where a team member equally prioritizes the demands of one's career and the demands of one's personal life.

#Learning
Constant personal and professional growth. More than just acquiring new skills, it’s about learning from our experiences and seeing failure as a path to success.

Benefits
Competitive remuneration, Culture of continuous learning, Flexible vacation policy.

Employment 
Regular employment in UK or Malta or Contractor agreement for the team members distributed across Europe (non-UK/Malta).