At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.
For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving the complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.
As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!
We are seeking a highly experienced and passionate Software Engineering Manager specializing in Ruby on Rails to lead and mentor a talented team of engineers. In this role, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence, fostering a collaborative environment, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions built on the Ruby on Rails framework. You will leverage your deep expertise in Ruby on Rails to guide architectural decisions, promote best practices, and contribute to the growth and development of your team.
What You’ll Do- Manage and mentor a team of 3-4 engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and inclusion.
- Guide your team through technical challenges, balancing new feature development with system scalability and performance.
- Develop and execute on adding more capabilities for our Custom Data Platform, DataHub, ensuring our integrated products can seamlessly enable embedded analytic solutions for the end users
- Champion engineering excellence, ensuring best practices in coding, testing, and observability.
- Drive a high-performance culture where clarity, ownership, and impact are at the forefront.
Deliver Scalable & High-Impact Solutions
- Oversee the design, build, and delivery of new features, ensuring seamless integration within Mitratech’s Platform ecosystem.
- Work across the full stack—from UI components to backend services—to enhance admin customization capabilities, improve embedded reporting solutions, and implement backend system integrations with other Mitratech systems.
- Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability, making it easier for products and their end users to leverage our analytic offerings.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Platform Engineering teams to align on strategy and execution.
- Take ownership of key initiatives, ensuring smooth rollouts, enterprise-grade reliability, and continuous iteration.
Drive Technical & Organizational Growth
- Help define and evolve our technical roadmap, balancing short-term improvements with long-term scalability.
- Introduce innovative approaches to problem-solving, exploring new technologies where appropriate.
- Improve agile processes, ensuring a healthy balance between speed and sustainability.
- Foster an environment where team members feel supported, challenged, and motivated to do their best work.
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineers (2+ years as an Engineering Manager).
- Strong coaching and career development abilities, helping engineers grow professionally.
- Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple teams.
- Exceptional communication skills, ensuring clear expectations and alignment.
- Comfortable leading a distributed, global team and working asynchronously when needed.
- Good communicator and capable of appropriately engaging in constructive solution design
Technical Expertise
- Five or more years of software engineering experience in high-impact environments.
- Strong backend experience with Ruby on Rails and frontend experience with React.
- Experience scaling complex enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in high-traffic applications.
- Experience with observability and logging tools.
- Familiarity with AWS (RDS, EC2, RDS, Security Groups, CloudWatch, Ops tools, etc.) and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with microservices architectures
- Experience writing software in support of analytics use cases a plus
Education:
- Possess a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Emphasis in engineering, data science, computer science or information systems is preferred.
Tech Stack You’ll Work With
- Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Snowflake
- Frontend: JavaScript, React
- DevOps & Monitoring: AWS, Terraform, Github, CI/CD tools
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Docker
We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.
