Technical Lead (Ruby on Rails, AI-Native)

📋 Description

• Establish and maintain a strong engineering culture, defining how the development team
• Set and uphold technical standards for code quality, maintainability, reliability, and consistency
• Champion AI-native software development practices, ensuring developers use tools such as Cursor and
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of four developers, supporting their
• Guide architectural and technical decisions, applying sound engineering judgment to ensure
• Review AI-assisted development workflows and outputs, maintaining high standards for code quality

🎯 Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience building, maintaining, and delivering production
• Strong professional experience with Ruby on Rails, including at least 6 years of production-level
• Previous experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team, with the ability to establish
• Excellent technical judgment and deep code-review capabilities, with the ability to assess
• Daily hands-on experience with AI-native development tools, particularly Cursor and Claude Code
• Strong understanding of how to integrate AI-powered tools into software development while

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive part-time compensation (50% time commitment): UK-based candidates: £42,500-£57,500 per
• Fully remote, globally distributed working environment.
• Flexible part-time schedule of approximately 4-5 hours per day, Monday through Friday.
• Opportunity to take on a meaningful technical leadership position without the demands of a
• Flexibility for professionals balancing family responsibilities, parenting, consulting engagements
• Opportunity to shape engineering culture, technical standards, and AI-native development practices.