Ruby on Rails Team Lead

MatchPoint Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

MatchPoint Solutions seeks a Ruby on Rails Team Lead to guide a remote development team building high-volume, low-latency telehealth infrastructure. You will design backend systems, lead code reviews, and mentor engineers across Rails, React, and frontend tooling.

This contract role, 6 months with potential extension or contract-to-hire, emphasizes strong leadership, agile practices, and delivering robust, scalable software for online scheduling, patient intake, and telehealth workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years Rails development experience.
• Strong backend design and leadership skills.
• Experience leading Agile SDLC teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of high-volume Rails apps.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.
• Collaborate with QA, product, and designers on Scrum ceremonies.
• Develop automated tests and code reviews.
• Translate requirements into robust code and architecture.
• Mentor team members and drive end-to-end projects.

Skills

Rails

Team leadership

SQL databases

React

HTML/CSS

RSpec

CI/CD

HL7

Agile SDLC

AWS

Docker

Tools

Docker

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Skills

Re: fully remote – yes fully remote.Re: Years Experience – I’m less focused on years and more on skills. We need a high performing skilled full stack engineer (Rails, React or even TypeScript) that can lead projects and design the backend.Background questions:Desired Start Date: ASAPEngagement Model: Contract, will consider Contract to hireDuration: 6 months, likely longer (40 hours/week)Desired location: virtual, USYears Experience/level: 5-7 minimumHow many roles are open? 1 currentlyTravel: Less than 20%How many interviews are involved in the interview cycle? 2 interviews with WWT team / 1-2 with Lifestance Health team?Role Specific questionsOverall Goal:Why is the role open – business growthWhat are the business goals? Build the technology infrastructure to support the business growth, provide online mental health support across the USWhat is the project(s) this person will be working on day to day? Build the technology infrastructure to support telehealth.(NOW) Online Scheduling/Patient Intake(Q3) Telehealth(Q4) Digital MarketplaceTeam environment or working alone? Team, leading the teamConsultant skills – What are the Must Have/Primary Skills:Hard Skills (Top 3-5) – Rails development, technical team leadership, business requirements understandingSoft Skills (Culture fit) – entrepreneurial mindset, communicationNice to Have but not mandatory

Openings

1

Duration

6 months

Location

Remote

Job Type

N/A

Work Authorization

Green Card, US Citizen

Description

Job Title

Ruby on Rails Team Lead

Locations

Remote

Duration

6 Month Contract (expected contract extension and contract-to-hire option)

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance
• Create and refine best practices, coding standards, and documentation, and take the opportunity to share knowledge across the team
• Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process
• Specify technical solutions in clear and concise written documentation
• Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineers understand our strategy and vision
• Translate product requirements and technical designs into well-engineered, low-defect, robust code
• Regularly collaborate with other developers, QA, product owners, and designers to complete projects
• Participate and engage in all Scrum Ceremonies
• Develop high-quality, working code features and bug fixes
• Participate in/lead regular code reviews, often in a mentorship role with other engineers to maintain high development standards
• Write automated tests, including comprehensive unit and integration tests
• Collaborate with team members on key architecture decisions
• Interface with team members to troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues in production and non-production environments
• Engage and mentor other members on the team
• Lead projects end-to-end as an individual contributor

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience Rails
• 5+ years of experience with MySQL/SQL
• 2+ years of experience with React/jQuery
• Experience with HTML/CSS, RSpec, CI/CD
• Experience with HL7s
• Experience working in an Agile environment following SDLC
• Cloud Experience: AWS, Google
• Scaling and Deployment Frameworks: Docker …
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