Lead Engineer, Attendee Web Experience

Lever, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidised healthcare

Employer pension contribution

Dedicated in-house L&D

MacBook provided

Flexible working arrangements

Annual company events

Wellness subsidy €1000/year

Job summary

Web Summit seeks a Lead Engineer for our attendee-facing web app. You’ll shape preparation and participation for attendees, lead a small team with a product manager and designer, and line-manage engineers, with ~60% coding time. On-site at events, you’ll observe usage and drive product improvements.

You’ll champion fast, reliable software,ship incremental improvements, and mentor engineers to raise the bar across the team.

Qualifications

• Strong Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience shipping customer-facing software in small increments.
• Experience growing a product from a small set of blocks as it scales.
• Ability to make production changes safe via tests, monitoring, and rollout plans.
• Demonstrated skill in developing engineers: setting expectations and giving feedback.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the attendee web app used before and during events with Product and Design.
• Ship small improvements end-to-end and use learnings to shape future work.
• Keep the app fast and reliable with tens of thousands of users and safe for live events.
• Grow engineers through clear expectations, feedback, pairing, and responsibility.
• Work on-site at events and observe user interactions to inform the product.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Server-rendered views

JavaScript

Customer-facing software

Engineering leadership

Job description

Web Summit seeks a Lead Engineer for our attendee-facing web app. You’ll shape preparation and participation for attendees, lead a small team with a product manager and designer, and line-manage engineers, with ~60% coding time. On-site at events, you’ll observe usage and drive product improvements.

You’ll champion fast, reliable software,ship incremental improvements, and mentor engineers to raise the bar across the team.