Hands-on Head of Engineering/ Tech Lead - to £130k - Ruby on Rails
The title is flexible. Technically, given the initial hands-on element it's an experienced Tech Lead role but given you're the first dev hire and will be responsible for taking the company through a big transition away from working with a consultancy, it's higher level than that.
You'll join a company who are already established, successful and profitable, but after a number of years working alongside a software development agency they are ready to start building their own in-house team, and this is the first dev hire. They have a number of Product people in the business already.
You'll be involved with creating the tech culture, building out a small team of Ruby Engineers, ensure the smooth transition away from the consultancy, and make strategic decisions in the data driven organisation.
They would like to find someone who is great with Ruby on Rails and deep architecture experience.
London - Hybrid in a very nice co-work in Shoreditch - 1 day a week on site or more if you like! Up to £130k
✨ Benefits include 25 holiday days, bank hols on top & this number grows with tenure, annual L&D budget, team socials, wellbeing budget of £200 a year, standard company pension contribution
⚙️ Tech stack: Ruby on Rails (essential), React (experience not required) Postgres, Stimulus, Tailwind, AWS, Heroku, and some other smaller tools. You don't need experience with all of these - Ruby is the most important one.
This is definitely worth applying to if you would enjoy doing both hands-on and hands-off work for a business on the smaller side and would like to grow to a CTO position in the next few years. You enjoy making technical decisions but also are a people person with some leadership experience either as Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager or Tech Lead.