Technical Team Lead - Backend

At Rubikal, we’re building cutting-edge software products on top of a hybrid microservice platform. As a Technical Team Lead, you will be at the forefront of innovation, leading and mentoring a cross-functional squad responsible for building and maintaining a distributed Ruby ecosystem, comprising both microservices and a core monolith, alongside a custom Ruby framework integrated with Rails.

You’ll work with technologies like Postgres, MongoDB, NATS, and Kibana/Elastic for observability, while collaborating across borders with our 7 product teams spanning 5 countries. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic team management. You’ll guide your team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions while fostering a high-performance, feedback-rich culture.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Take ownership of the day-to-day leadership of a cross-functional squad (6–10 engineers), providing coaching, unblocking, and performance guidance.
• Technical Excellence: Drive high coding standards and system design practices, conduct PR reviews, and lead architectural discussions to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions.
• Project Delivery: Manage sprint planning, estimations, and execution, ensuring timely delivery of features with a focus on quality and performance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the bridge between product owners and engineers, translating product requirements into actionable technical tasks and communicating progress and risks to all stakeholders.
• Cross-team Alignment: Work closely with other team leads and architects to align tooling, technical direction, and engineering best practices across teams.
• Hiring Onboarding: Participate in interviews and help onboard new engineers to ensure a smooth integration and knowledge transfer.
• Quality Reliability: Ensure all deliverables meet performance, security, and scalability benchmarks before being released to production.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a technical leadership or team lead role within a software product environment.
• Solid background in backend development, particularly with Ruby/Rails and microservice architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases (Postgres, MongoDB) and messaging systems (e.g., NATS).
• Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Elastic.
• Skilled in mentoring, performance coaching, and cultivating a high-trust engineering culture.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product-oriented team structures.

Benefits

• Flexible remote/hybrid work setup.
• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Career development support.
• Collaborative, international environment with top engineering talent.
• Inclusive culture that values diversity, learning, and innovation.
• Team retreats and cross-country meetups.
• New MacBook (latest edition) provided for all new hires.
• Comprehensive medical insurance package.

Originally posted on Himalayas