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Lead Engineer – Attendee Experience
Web Summit. Build and improve the web app attendees use before and during Web Summit events, working closely with Product and Design.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesJavaScriptPostgresRubyRuby on Rails
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build and improve the web app attendees use before and during Web Summit events, working closely with Product and Design.
- Ship small improvements frequently, working end to end and using learnings to shape future work.
- Keep the app fast and reliable for tens of thousands of concurrent users and safe to change while events are running.
- Help engineers grow through clear expectations, useful feedback, pairing and opportunities to take on responsibility.
- Work on site at events, observe how people use the product and incorporate those insights into the product.
- Shape the attendee-facing web app experience.
- Lead a small team alongside a product manager and designer.
- Own the technical work and line-manage engineers.
- Spend approximately 60% of the time writing code.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL experience.
- Experience with server-rendered views and JavaScript where appropriate.
- Experience shipping and improving customer-facing software in small, useful increments.
- Experience growing a product from a small set of building blocks and keeping them small as the product grows.
- Experience making production changes safe through appropriate tests, monitoring, staged rollout and recovery plans.
- Demonstrated skill in developing engineers: setting clear expectations, giving useful feedback, delegating responsibility and addressing performance concerns fairly.
- Ability to explain decisions clearly and enable colleagues to question them.
- Experience building something small that people ended up using in unplanned ways.
- Willingness to share knowledge.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.
- Employer pension contribution up to 6% for Irish-based employees
- A dedicated in-house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
- Company MacBook
- Generous annual leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Community and morale-boosting events through the Tramway Team
- Annual company get-togethers
- Charity days
- Monthly wellbeing talks
- Wellness subsidy of €1000 per year