Ruby Tech Lead - Hotwire

Ruby Tech Lead - Reading (up to 2 days a week, 1 day after 6 months) - Progression - Stable and profitable business

I am currently supporting a client with 2 new hires! 1 Senior and 1 Tech Lead Ruby position.

to help shape and lead a highly experienced Ruby engineering team, driving delivery and technical direction across a critical product platform.

This role is ideal for a hands-on Lead who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is excited about using LLMs and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering output.

• Acting as a technical lead working along side the Engineering Leader (who also has a very strong track record in the Ruby space)
• Leading a team of experienced engineers to design, build, and ship quickly
• Supporting the ongoing migration from Heroku to AWS
• Owning system design decisions and guiding architecture evolution
• Remaining hands-on in coding, particularly within the Rails ecosystem

• Ruby on Rails (core platform)
• AWS
• Elasticsearch
• Hotwire / some React involvement

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead or senior-level engineer in Ruby/Rails
• Strong architectural and system design capabilities
• Comfortable being hands-on while leading a team
• Experience or strong interest in LLMs and developer productivity tooling
• A calm, methodical approach with a bias for delivery and impact

• Hybrid working (typically 2 days per week in Reading, can be reduced to 1 day after 6 months)
• 25 days holiday
• Collaborative, social environment with regular team events
• Mental health support
• Mac Book + full workstation setup
• Output-driven culture with autonomy and flexibility

Up to £120,000 (flexible for exceptional candidates)