R&D Team Leader

PeerSpot, is the Authority on Enterprise technology. As the world’s fastest-growing review platform designed exclusively for enterprise technology, with over 500,000 registered members, PeerSpot enables 97 of the Fortune 100 companies in making technology buying decisions. Technology vendors understand the importance of peer reviews and encourage their customers to be part of our community. PeerSpot helps vendors capture and leverage the authentic product feedback in the most comprehensive way to help buyers when conducting research or making purchase decisions, as well as helping vendors use their voice of customer insights in other educational ways throughout their business.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated SW Team leader to join our team to play a pivotal role in our journey. In this capacity, you will provide leadership and direction to a team proficient in Ruby on Rails, React BootStrap and ESBuild.

• Possibility to develop expertise in an incredibly broad spectrum of technologies and at every level of the Web Application.
• Positive work/life balance. Life can be chaotic, and you need the flexibility to achieve great results.
• Work in a small, tight-knit group of highly engaged, intelligent, and fun people. Help us keep our code smelling bright, fresh, and super easy to use.
• Possibility to keep up to date on new technologies with an eye to bringing them on board. We don’t just use something because it’s popular; we use it because it solves a problem.
• Stable and growing project. We’re profitable and have been since year 3 of our start.

• Overseeing a team of skilled developers
• Developing and overseeing our CI/CD Pipelines
• Help prioritize company wide initiatives from an R&D perspective.
• Help and looking after the professional growth of the team members.
• Recruiting and training new team members
• Defining improvement goals for the team and leading the team to achieve the goals.
• Working closely with the Product team to review application requirements and write technical specifications for both frontend and backend feature implementation.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture with responsive user interface components
• Own the design, execution, quality, and end-to-end delivery of highly scalable products.
• Improve platform architecture to support current and future initiatives.

• Open Source MVC Web framework, like Rail, python's django or php's laravel-Must
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, familiarity with both FE and BE technologies (React, MongoDB/MySQL/CDN/Redis). -Must
• 3 years of experience of tech team leading engineering team
• Experience working in a cloud-based environment with knowledge in AWS services,
•  Knowledge of Docker. 
• Experience with Agile, CI/CD based development. 
• Proactive, highly motivated individual with a high work ethic and goal-oriented approach
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
• Fast learner, highly organized, and detail-oriented person.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering related field / technology Elite unit alumni with relevant experience.
• Passionate about code design, high-quality code, and code reviews, optimizing and challenging the status quo.
• Good communication skills, fluent in English, good writing skills
• Autodidact, like to learn new things and share with the team.
• communication skills. A high level of spoken and written English - Must.

More info

Our office is a few min walk to Modi’in central train station. 

PeerSpot is an equal-opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, veteran status, or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Additionally, we will make reasonable accommodations to assist a person with a disability in the application process.