Senior/Lead Web Developer

Our client is looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Lead Web Developer who will use their expertise and drive to guide their engineering team and its output. As a technical leader, you will set your team’s vision and ensure it is transformed into implementation.

Responsibilities

• Our client’s Web Development teams (encompassing client and server side web) work closely with other software engineering teams, UI, UX, and product managers to build best-in-breed online betting and gaming websites, as well as operational tools such as content management systems.
• You will use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ruby, and modern technologies and frameworks like Ruby on Rails, React, Typescript, GraphQL, and Cypress to develop large front-end websites and small service applications that are intuitive, scale globally and perform well on all devices. 

Requirements

• Extensive software developing experience specific to web development
• Strong experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• A product-minded developer who cares and questions – Why build this feature? How to best build this feature? How will we measure success?
• A generalist, T-shaped developer excited by problems that require a mix of frontend and backend skills and unblocking anything that stands in the way of success.
• A solid foundation of design principles, especially when it relates to web specific platform development in the areas of delivery and service layer, API, data modeling, high-availability, and scale.
• Strong belief in writing automated tests as part of yours and others development workflow
• Passionate about web development.
• Efficient in collaboration and communication, with a history of establishing great relationships with other teams and across locations, with technical and non-technical staff.
• Curious – you are up-to-date and eager to learn.
• Bias towards action. You are hands on, passionate, persistent, creative and humble. You get things done.