Ruby on Rails Team Lead

Skills

Re: fully remote – yes fully remote.

Re:
Years Experience – I’m less focused on years and more on skills. We need a high performing skilled full stack engineer (Rails, React or even Type Script) that can lead projects and design the backend.

Background questions:

Desired

Start Date:

ASAPEngagement Model:
Contract, will consider Contract to hire Duration: 6 months, likely longer (40 hours/week)
Desired location: virtual, USYears Experience/level: 5-7 minimum

How many roles are open? 1 currently

Travel:
Less than 20%
How many interviews are involved in the interview cycle? 2 interviews with WWT team / 1-2 with Lifestance Health team?

Role Specific questions

Overall Goal:

Why is the role open – business growth

What are the business goals? Build the technology infrastructure to support the business growth, provide online mental health support across the USWhat is the project(s) this person will be working on day to day? Build the technology infrastructure to support telehealth.(NOW) Online Scheduling/Patient Intake(Q3) Telehealth(Q4) Digital Marketplace Team environment or working alone? Team, leading the team Consultant skills – What are the Must Have/Primary

Skills:

Hard Skills (Top 3-5) – Rails development, technical team leadership, business requirements understanding

Soft Skills (Culture fit) – entrepreneurial mindset, communication

Nice to Have but not mandatory

1

6 months

Remote

N/A

Green Card, US Citizen

Ruby on Rails Team Lead

Remote

6 Month Contract (expected contract extension and contract-to-hire option)

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance
• Create and refine best practices, coding standards, and documentation, and take the opportunity to share knowledge across the team
• Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process
• Specify technical solutions in clear and concise written documentation
• Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineers understand our strategy and vision
• Translate product requirements and technical designs into well-engineered, low-defect, robust code
• Regularly collaborate with other developers, QA, product owners, and designers to complete projects
• Participate and engage in all Scrum Ceremonies
• Develop high-quality, working code features and bug fixes
• Participate in/lead regular code reviews, often in a mentorship role with other engineers to maintain high development standards
• Write automated tests, including comprehensive unit and integration tests
• Collaborate with team members on key architecture decisions
• Interface with team members to troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues in production and non-production environments
• Engage and mentor other members on the team
• Lead projects end-to-end as an individual contributor

• 10+ years of experience Rails
• 5+ years of experience with MySQL/SQL
• 2+ years of experience with React/jQuery
• Experience with HTML/CSS, RSpec, CI/CD
• Experience with HL7s
• Experience working in an Agile environment following SDLC
• Cloud
  
  Experience:
  
  AWS, Google
• Scaling and Deployment Frameworks:
  Docker …
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