Ruby on Rails Engineering Manager (Distributed Learning Platform)

Who Are You?

You are an innovative engineering leader who thrives on shaping and nurturing a self-managed agile engineering team. You embrace a rapid development mindset, deploying lean agile practices to deliver innovative solutions in a well-planned environment. With a solid background in product teams, you bring experience in Ruby on Rails and a deep understanding of large distributed learning management systems. Your expertise in interoperable component architecture is complemented by your role in leading an R&D engineering team, where out-of-the-box thinking is encouraged. As an empathetic leader, you possess strong technical capabilities that resonate without the need for heavy technical jargon, fostering collaboration and growth within your team.

What's the Job?

We are seeking an experienced and empathetic Engineering Manager to lead our talented engineering team. In this role, you will balance hands-on technical contributions with leadership responsibilities, ensuring the team thrives while delivering exceptional results. You will guide the team toward adopting self-managed lean agile principles and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a strong engineering team, fostering growth and engagement.
• Contribute to code development when necessary, ensuring best practices and high-quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance in building and maintaining scalable, interoperable architectures within a cloud environment.
• Champion lean agile principles, enabling the team to be self-organized and focused on continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align engineering efforts with business objectives.
• Drive adoption of Ruby on Rails and related technologies within the engineering stack.
• Promote a culture of empathy, inclusion, and open communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science.
• Extensive experience working with Ruby on Rails and Rails conventions
• A minimum of 8 years experience in software development with at least 2 years as an engineering manager
• Expertise in lean agile methodologies and guiding teams toward self-management.
• Familiarity and comfortable with agile methodologies and rapid development processes.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based multi-tenant applications
• Extensive experience with a variety of rapid application development technologies, similar to and including Ruby on Rails, C#, C++, and Python.
• Experience with version control, release management and deployment processes.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Experience with API development and microservices.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of distributed eLearning systems with focus on interoperability standards, including xAPI, cmi5, and SCORM.

Perks:

• Extended health benefits including dental, life insurance, vision care and mental wellness program
• Optional monthly team social hosted by the Culture Committee
• Professional development program
• Flexible work hours
• 4 weeks vacation to start
• 5 paid sick days
• Work from home equipment
• 13 stat holiday

Please note:

• All candidates must be able to pass security assessments as required by Public Services and Procurement Canada.

RaceRocks is a remote-first company with team members across Canada, with an office for optional use in Victoria, BC. Team members are required to be available for team building and collaboration during core operating hours of 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Pacific Time. Outside of core working hours, we offer flexibility to support work-life balance. Although our HQ is in Victoria, BC we are open to hiring candidates from nearly anywhere in Canada. At this time, we do not have the infrastructure to support hiring candidates from Quebec or to hire/support working internationally.

We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, Black peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, any qualified person of legal working age, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

Should you require any accommodation, please inform us and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any accessibility-related assistance, please contact us at peopleops@racerocks3d.com

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.