Ubego

Web Team Lead / CTO (Part-Time, Equity-Based)

Posted 17 Days Ago

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Hiring Remotely in Israel

Remote

Expert/Leader

Gaming • Mobile • Travel

The Role

Lead web engineering and DevOps for a global location-based experiences platform. Design and maintain backend (PHP/Laravel) and frontend (Angular/React/Vue), own architecture, CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes). Mentor a small team, run planning and code reviews, and align technical execution with product and business goals. Part-time equity-based CTO role (15-20 hours/week).

Summary Generated by Built In

About Ubego

Ubego is a global platform where creators build interactive experiences, including:

Urban quests
Self-guided excursions
Real-world games

Customers discover, purchase, and complete these experiences through our mobile application.

Today, Ubego operates in more than 60 cities worldwide and continues to expand internationally. We are developing tools that allow creators to build engaging location-based experiences at scale and are exploring new technologies, including augmented reality features.

Why Join Us

Operating for 7+ years
Active customers and recurring purchases
Global and scalable business model
International product with growth potential
Small, experienced, and highly motivated team
Agile development culture

How We Work

We use Scrum with weekly sprints, planning sessions, and retrospectives. We follow Lean Startup principles and continuously test and validate new ideas.

Responsibilities

Engineering (Core Focus)

Design, develop, and maintain web applications (backend and frontend)
Lead backend development using PHP (Laravel)
Lead frontend development using Angular, React, or Vue
Own software architecture and technical decisions
Perform code reviews and maintain engineering standards
Participate directly in debugging, refactoring, and performance optimization
Design APIs and system integrations

DevOps & Infrastructure

Own CI/CD pipelines and release processes
Manage deployments across staging and production environments
Improve infrastructure stability, scalability, and monitoring
Automate business and engineering processes
Manage Linux-based infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services
Improve build, test, and deployment automation
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability systems

Leadership & Product Delivery

Lead and mentor a small engineering team
Conduct planning meetings, technical reviews, and architecture discussions
Support hiring and onboarding
Align technical execution with business goals
Improve engineering processes and documentation
Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams

Required Skills

Backend & Frontend

PHP (Laravel)
JavaScript / TypeScript
Angular (preferred), React, or Vue
MySQL
REST APIs

DevOps & Infrastructure

Linux Administration
Bash Scripting
Nginx
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
CI/CD (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar)
Infrastructure Automation (Ansible or similar)
Networking Fundamentals (TCP/IP, iptables, ipset)

Monitoring & Reliability

Prometheus
Grafana
Zabbix
Elasticsearch
Filebeat
Kibana

Engineering Practices

Git
Code Reviews
Software Architecture
System Design
YAML / JSON / XML
Technical Documentation (Markdown)

Databases

MySQL Administration & Optimization
MongoDB or other NoSQL Databases

Tools & Platforms

Jira
Confluence
Cloudflare

Programming & Automation

Python
AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code)

Nice to Have

Node.js
Advanced Kubernetes Experience
C++ / Qt / WebAssembly
Product Management Experience
Project Management Experience

Personality requirements

Highly disciplined. Using task management tools
Tolerant to writing documentation
Ambitious. Ready to work hard to earn billions
Desire to autonomously deliver features by designing/improving product requirements, implementing in code and testing them with AI

We offer an option

Up to 1 500 000 shares of Ubego (at the moment there are 11 500 000 shares). P shares hourly + dividends.
Workload amount is 15-20 hours weekly. You can mix easily with your office job.
This is an equity based compensation opportunity. To apply, you need to have a full-time job.

We are looking for investments nowadays and current company valuation estimated by a 3rd party investment manager as for $6,000,000. So it will be hard for you to get to the team. But we encourage you to try!

our web site: https://ubego.quest

our mobile app: https://ubego.quest/download

Send CV to wa.me/972559849254

CV can be in Russian or English language.