Software Team Lead

About Riverside

We’re a virtual studio that makes recording and editing at the highest quality possible, accessible to anyone. Since launching, we have experienced rapid growth and are trusted by individual creators and companies such as Spotify, NY Times, NBC, CNN, and iHeartMedia.

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.

About You

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.

About the role

What you'll be doing

• 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 process automations, architecture, and infrastructure handovers

What you bring to the table

• Solid knowledge of the full stack development profession - DB modeling, backend architecture, API planning, client side data flow, ux implementation
• Strong experience designing web solutions for challenging problems
• Vast experience in implementing web applications from end to end (full stack)
• Ability to manage multiple requesters and priorities, and presenting the opportunities, limitations, trade-offs and bring innovative ideas to satisfy the needs

Required Programming Languages And Frameworks

• Thorough knowledge of JavaScript
• Thorough knowledge of React.js
• Thorough knowledge of Node.js, working with MongoDB
• Experience with common web development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, 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.