Team Lead Ruby on Rails - LATAM

Expected availability: 35 hours/week Long term project: 6 months to 2 years Native Spanish speakers with at least an intermediate level of English are welcome! Job Description 1. Fully responsible for analysis, design, development, deployment and maintenance of the project. 2. Ensure modular, reusable and excellent quality code through TDD, code reviews and implementation of best practices 3. Make architectural decisions in collaboration with technology experts, ensure proper technical documentation 4. Pro-active involvement in project risk analysis and mitigation, continuously review problems to determine the root cause in order to prevent them in the future. 5. Ensure scalability, performance, reliability and security of the application 6. Keep up with trends in the constantly evolving technology. 7. Gather and analyze business requirements, understand business perspective of the client, and plan product roadmap in collaboration with project manager and client 8. Encourage, involve, motivate, lead team members for learning and achieving project and departmental goals. 9. Identify training needs, organize, and coach team members on various aspects of their career growth. 10. Actively involved in ensuring implementation of organizational culture, process and standards. ` Job Specification 1. Graduate in Computer Engineering or similar IT background or equivalent practical experience 2. Minimum 5 years of professional experience 3. Excellent knowledge of programming principles (OOP, SOLID, Cohesion, Coupling, Encapsulation) 4. Excellent knowledge of Ruby on Rails and related technologies 5. Good knowledge on HTML, CSS, Javascript, Database and web application security. 6. Good concept of design patterns 7. Excellent knowledge of Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and version control tools (GIT) 8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable with client communication 9. Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities 10. Good leadership skills - ability to motivate and mentor team members, ability to plan and make sound decisions, ability to negotiate tactfully with the client and team 11. Good documentation skills (API Documentation, Deployment Documents, Application Architecture Documents etc.) 12. Expertise in server configuration, deployment and deployment automation; good knowledge of amazon web services(EC2, S3, RDS, SES) 13. Highly experienced with Agile methodologies like Scrum/Kanban NOTE: Profiles out of LATAM won't be considered