At Recurly theh Technical Lead is a full stack developer with an expert understanding of ROR and Angular JS. The role is well versed with design concepts and able to introduce technical solutions.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks

• Build responsive and elegant development applications that are scalable.
• Optimize development applications to maximize speed and scale.
• Coach and mentor individual contributors at all levels within the development organization.
• Write clean and maintainable code.
• Manage Back-end coding, which includes any database queries
• Perform basic front-end coding using Rails and JavaScript
• Supervise deployment of the application from development to production
• Workflow and UI design to help users intuitively work with your application
• Perform maintenance and code upgrades, working with server-side frameworks like Ruby on Rails. 
• Define and develop concrete goals and product features from user requirements and high-level product direction; running, monitoring, and managing a cloud-hosted SaaS application.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of development experience on Front and Back End.
• 2+ years of experience as a lead role.
• Proven team and project leadership.
• Strong performance track record, with consistently positive feedback from team members.
• Outstanding software engineering skills (Data structures, algorithms, coding skills).
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to excel in a fast pace and ever changing envrironment.
• Comfortable learning new coding languages and switching from one to another smoothly.
• Strong architecture skills, able to select the best stack for each project.

Special Position Requirements

• Ability to achieve results in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Thinking about the entire architecture of the system and how to work effectively as a team.
• Designing, troubleshooting, and optimizing distributed systems.
• Demonstrably strong object-oriented design skills
• Good fundamental knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Preferences

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject.
• Experience working directly with customers.
• Programming languages: Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP (Front and Backend experience)
• A code repository to share with the team containing contributions to open source projects.