At Rubikal, we’re building cutting-edge software products on top of a hybrid microservice platform. As a Technical Team Lead, you will be at the forefront of innovation, leading and mentoring a cross-functional squad responsible for building and maintaining a distributed Ruby ecosystem, comprising both microservices and a core monolith, alongside a custom Ruby framework integrated with Rails.
You’ll work with technologies like Postgres, MongoDB, NATS, and Kibana/Elastic for observability, while collaborating across borders with our 7 product teams spanning 5 countries. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic team management. You’ll guide your team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions while fostering a high-performance, feedback-rich culture.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Take ownership of the day-to-day leadership of a cross-functional squad (6–10 engineers), providing coaching, unblocking, and performance guidance.
- Technical Excellence: Drive high coding standards and system design practices, conduct PR reviews, and lead architectural discussions to ensure robust, secure, and scalable solutions.
- Project Delivery: Manage sprint planning, estimations, and execution, ensuring timely delivery of features with a focus on quality and performance.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the bridge between product owners and engineers, translating product requirements into actionable technical tasks and communicating progress and risks to all stakeholders.
- Cross-team Alignment: Work closely with other team leads and architects to align tooling, technical direction, and engineering best practices across teams.
- Hiring & Onboarding: Participate in interviews and help onboard new engineers to ensure a smooth integration and knowledge transfer.
- Quality & Reliability: Ensure all deliverables meet performance, security, and scalability benchmarks before being released to production.
- Proven experience in a technical leadership or team lead role within a software product environment.
- Solid background in backend development, particularly with Ruby/Rails and microservice architectures.
- Strong understanding of databases (Postgres, MongoDB) and messaging systems (e.g., NATS).
- Experience with observability tools such as Kibana and Elastic.
- Skilled in mentoring, performance coaching, and cultivating a high-trust engineering culture.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and product-oriented team structures.
- Flexible remote/hybrid work setup.
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
- Career development support.
- Collaborative, international environment with top engineering talent.
- Inclusive culture that values diversity, learning, and innovation.
- Team retreats and cross-country meetups.
- New MacBook (latest edition) provided for all new hires.
- Comprehensive medical insurance package.
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What We Do
Rubikal is a premier custom software development company with an elite engineering workforce, providing exceptional expertise in planning and developing real-time, scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.
Based in Egypt we are specialized in building highly skilled teams for startups, SMEs, and corporates in need of robust software solutions.
With a dynamic agile environment, our team provides project-ready tech experts that work in full compliance with business needs and objectives.
We have a successful long track record in helping businesses around the globe with products designing, prototyping, and development
Rubikal was selected by Linkedin in 2021 as one of the Top Startups list in Egypt, and becomes a Clutch Leader ranking 2nd on the list of the most prominent Egyptian B2B firms for 2021!
Rubikal pursues to be the best software development employer that offers not only competitive compensation and challenging projects but also other game-changing benefits. Among these are the free health care programs, free commuting, free meals, awesome gaming room, and flexible schedules. We care deeply about the satisfaction of our employees, we focus on growth and learning opportunities, believe in a diverse cultural environment and equal opportunities.
