Lead Ruby on Rails / Team Leader (I) Offline

As a Team Leader, you will be the point of contact for all team members, so your communication skills should be excellent. You should also be able to work proactively to ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration. Ultimately, you should lead by setting a good example and engaging the team to achieve goals.

About Exadel:

Since 1998 Exadel has been engineering its own software products and custom software for clients of all sizes. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Exadel currently has 1000+ employees in development centers across America, Europe and Asia.

About the Customer:

The customer is an educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the developer and publisher of Canvas, a Web-based learning management system, and Canvas Network, a massive open online course (MOOC) platform.

About the Project:

The customer’s solution has a few services that exist outside the primary monolith and that provide additional functionality to the customer's core product - the world's fastest-growing learning management system. The customer needs help operating and maintaining these services. This means the customer needs to staff a team capable of having full ownership of key product components. This means we're looking for people with an operational mindset who will strive to surpass the customer’s SLAs of 99.9% uptime 24x7, minimal bugs, test automation, and minimal waste (both process and technical).

The services will be:

an attendance tool enabling teachers to easily record attendance. This is a standard Ruby on Rails app with backbone JS (and some React) on the front end. Backed by RDS (both MySQL and Postgres)

an Alexa skills service. This is a light service written as a JavaScript lambda and an Express/Node server application backed by DynamoDB

a document viewing and annotation service. This is made up of a Node app and a conversion service (knight rider) written in Java and backed by S3 and DynamoDB. It also uses SQS and has a small amount of Scala.

LTI applications using Ruby and Rails. They are deployed on our platform infrastructure and leverage Postgres, ElastiCache, S3, etc.

a learning content package manager. This service is made up of a 3rd party service written in Java/JavaScript/MySQL. Hosted with EC2 and RDS. There's also a wrapper written in rails/js/postgres.

Current Project Stage:

Development

Requirements:

Proven work experience as a team leader or supervisor

Experience with any of the following technologies: Ruby, Java, or Javascript; preferred NodeJS and React

If you have worked with only one technology you should be motivated to learn and work with the whole stack

Experience in Production Support activities (on-call availability, production monitoring, incidents resolution, deployments)

Excellent communication and leadership skills

Organizational and time-management skills

Decision-making skills

Degree in management or training in team leading is a plus

Responsibilities:

Create an inspiring team environment with a culture of open communication

Set clear team goals

Production support customizing

Delegate tasks and set deadlines

Oversee day-to-day operations

Monitor team performance and report on metrics

Motivate team members

Listen to team members’ feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts

Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments

Encourage creativity and risk-taking

Suggest and organize team-building activities

Advantages of Working with Exadel:

You can build your expertise with Sales Support, which provides assistance with existing and potential projects

You can join any community or create your own to communicate with like-minded colleagues

You can participate in continuing education as a mentor or speaker

You can take part in internal and external meetups as a speaker or listener

You can learn English with the support of native speakers

You can take part in cultural, sport, charity, and entertainment events