Backend Team Lead
Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo
,
israel
Description
Hi! Thanks for checking us out!
Who we are:
Riverside is your online studio for high-quality recordings and incredibly smart and fast editing. It's powered by AI, but built for human conversations - anything from podcasts to video marketing is captured with 4K video quality and crystal-clear audio, no matter where you’re located.
By removing all barriers between idea and expression, we empower anyone to create stories and conversations that engage their audience and inspire the world with conversations and stories.
Role Overview:
In the R&D team, we are creating elegant solutions for complex engineering challenges.
We are looking for a motivated manager, experienced in guiding, monitoring and leading a team, with a high level of professional and personal integrity.
You are highly technical and a hands-on manager. Successful at piloting a team toward a common goal, keeping the team in a good spirit despite the challenges, orchestrating, and balancing the business needs and workloads. The successful candidate will come with a start-up mentality (and ideally start-up experience), and strong skill of managing timelines, defining milestones, and delivering accordingly. Problem solver – not afraid to think outside of the box.
What will your day to day look like:
- Building highly performant and maintainable web applications
- Leading the development efforts and the feature implementation strategies
- Managing the development team, the sprints, and the source code quality
- Actively participating in the development process of the web platform
- Actively participating in the process automations, architecture, and infrastructure handovers
Requirements:
Your areas of expertise most relevant to this role:
- Solid knowledge of the Backend development profession - Infrastructure, DB modeling, backend architecture, API planning, Scalability and Performance Optimization
- Ability to manage multiple requesters and priorities, and presenting the opportunities, limitations, trade-offs and bring innovative ideas to satisfy the needs
- Thorough knowledge of JavaScript
- Thorough knowledge of Node.js, working with MongoDB
- Strong understanding of software architecture (monolithic, microservices, event-driven, serverless, etc.).
- Experience with WebRTC both on the client and server (advantage)
- A natural leader who inspires by doing, enjoys being technically hands on, mentoring, and building efficient teams.
- Good communicator, also in English.
Why choose us?
You'll have a front-row seat at an early-stage, fast-growing company.
- We're still small, so there are not too many layers of bureaucracy to work through. You can have a huge impact here.
- Talented partners and plenty of space to learn and teach
- Competitive Salary and benefits and so much more!
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