Tech Lead - Engineer | Product Support
Full-time exempt and remote position.
Tech Lead Responsibilities:
- Act as technical leader to team, to drive a steady stream of problem resolutions and product improvements aimed at reducing the number of support issues being reported.
- Work cross functionally with engineers, designers, QA, product managers and our customer support team to ensure the highest efficiency and quality of the work of the team.
- Influence technical decisions and roadmap, especially as relates to product reliability, team efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Manage the Product Support team against their goals of end user satisfaction.
- Oversee the triage and prioritization process of incoming support issues to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Engage in 1-1 with Product Support team members and take an active role in their skill development and technical growth.
- Lead mindset of continuous improvement of system, tests, and data quality indicators.
- Produce high-quality software that is fully tested, code reviewed, and secure.
- Keep yourself informed and up-to-date with the evolving technology landscape.
What you bring to the team:
- Experience as a full-stack engineer (frontend + backend development)
- At least 5 years of experience building, fixing, and scaling web apps (B2B apps preferred)
- Proven ability to mentor and lead engineers
- An innate curiosity and desire to learn and grow
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Dedication to writing and maintaining documentation
- A willingness to adapt quickly
You’ll have a better chance of success given experience with:
- Large refactoring/re-engineering projects
- Demonstrable work in at least some of the parts of our stack:
- Ruby, Rails
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- jQuery, React
- Redis, Resque
- Play
- Devops and AWS
- RESTful APIs
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