Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of technology while leading an exceptional team? As our Backend Lead, you'll be at the helm of our technical strategy, driving innovation across our products and services. Working directly with our CEO, executive team, and key stakeholders, you'll lead a talented tech team of ~5 members, balancing hands-on coding with strategic decision-making. If you're passionate about building scalable, secure, and reliable backend solutions and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we’d love to have you on board.
What You’ll Do
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Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the company’s technical vision, aligning it with business goals.
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Product Development: Drive the development, testing, and maintenance of our software products and services.
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Problem Solver: Devise and implement solutions to technical challenges, collaborating with product teams.
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Data-Driven Innovation: Run high-impact A/B and multivariate tests to optimize product performance and achieve business objectives.
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System Optimization: Design and implement robust backend server architectures, ensuring scalability and reliability.
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Team Empowerment: Mentor and manage a team of developers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Implement security best practices to protect customer data
- Collaborate with other departments to identify and prioritize technical requirements, opportunities and improve our development processes
- Stay up to date with the latest trends in backend/cloud development
- Work with the support team to optimize/automate the support flow for our user success
What You Bring
- 8y+ Ruby on Rails development experience in a production environment
- Recent experience developing the backend for mobile apps
- Managing and leading a team of developers
- Scalable development and deployment with at least 10,000 DAUs
- Experience with cloud deployment/ops/optimization
- Experience with database + query optimization, such as partitioning/sharding / perf-opt, etc
- Experience with algorithm design
- Experience with RESTful
- Experience with version control (git) and agile development methodologies
- Understanding of DevOps principles and best practices
- Knowledge of security best practices for web and mobile applications
- Experience with RSpec or other automated testing frameworks
- Performance optimization
Nice to Have
- Experience with Terraform or any infra as code tool
- Web development (JS, etc.)
- Kubernetes prod experience
- Go lang experience
- ML/AI
Requirements
- A Work Hard, Play Hard mentality: Passion for growth balanced with enjoyment.
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Problem-Solving Mindset: Eager to implement effective solutions.
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Can-Do Attitude: Drive to push through challenges.
About Us
We're a profitable mobile apps startup from the United States, focused on the social space, with millions of dollars in revenue and over 15M downloads globally.
Our apps and ambitions cover dating, social audio, and language learning apps. As owners of one of the original dating apps, www.DownApp.com, we're veterans in the social space. We have a remote-friendly team that partners with our Taipei office team.