R&D Team Lead

Gloat is a revolutionary startup based in New York and Tel Aviv. Our pioneering Internal Talent Marketplace has disrupted the HR Tech industry and is now powering some of the world’s largest, and most innovative companies in their journey of becoming future-ready workforces. If HR tech, career development, and the future of work are issues you care about – you’re in for a crazy ride.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of passionate, talented engineers.
• Lead the development of a business-critical system using modern web technologies.
• Advancing Gloat’s technology by building a scalable microservices architecture.
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects and Tech Lead to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities.
• Work closely with Gloat customer success organization to enable fast and seamless onboarding.
• Manage employee career development by providing coaching and mentoring, continuous performance feedback, collaborate with employees on their objectives and provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans.
• Continuously learn and improve your professional and managerial skills.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and improve performance, quality and usability
• Adapt and solve problems as they arise.

Requirements

• Quick learner, a team player, independent, imaginative and motivated individual with a passion to learn!
• 5+ years developing SaaS backend & web applications
• 2+ years leading and mentoring a development team
• Excellent understanding of databases, modeling and querying.
• Experienced in planning and execution of complex projects in an agile environment
• Working in a fast changing organization or growing startup – Advantage