Squad Lead, Rails

The Squad Lead is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the people, tools, and processes required to create and maintain products. This role is accountable for the outcomes of the squad and the development of the team members. In addition, working closely with the Product Owner should help identify the functional requirements and make a plan to make them happen.
As a people-oriented position, the Squad Lead needs to take care of the growth and specialization of their reporters, understanding and working hard to keep as high as possible the team's morale.
**Your impact**:
- Recruitment
- Guidance, coaching, and mentorship. That is, managing the development of team members in short, medium and long term
- Determine Squad's development strategy and planning the squad's projects
- Assist the team defining the resources they need and find a way to provide it to them
- Communicate constantly with Product owners, architects, and other SL's.
- Work closely with UX to ensure top quality designs that meet standards.
- Guarantee squad's health and great performance
**Who you are**:
- Experience as an SWE.
- Ability to handle schedules and priorities and communicate appropriately about them.
- Analytical problem solver. Someone who goes beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
- Goal-oriented orchestrator. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing the right activities that lead to success.
- Curious learner. Technical project leader with an innate curiosity drives him/her to understand all aspects of New Product Development.
- Organizational skills complimented with a detail-oriented mindset and the ability to juggle multiple activities.
- Ability to communicate technically with a variety of engineering disciplines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- English language proficiency.
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**About Bitso**:
Bitso is Latin America's leading cryptocurrency platform. Our goal is to evolve how we think about and use money. We believe that we should all have the opportunity to use our money whenever we want it, and how we want it, without boundaries or schedules. To achieve this, we provide individuals with fast, cheap, seamless and user-friendly financial services powered by blockchain technology.
Cryptocurrencies do not rely on intermediaries to give them legitimacy or value. Instead, they are valuable because of the peer-to-peer technology that powers them. We firmly believe in crypto and the use cases it has. It's time for the world to upgrade to a fair, open, transparent, and global financial system for all. **#makecryptouseful.**
Bitso promotes an environment where people are treated fairly and with respect, free of discrimination, bullying, harassment, violence or threats.
**Compensation and Benefits**:
- **Purpose**: You'll be part of something bigger, working towards financial disruption and inclusion across Latin America.
- **Culture**: You'll work in a thriving, friendly, and fun environment that promotes open discussions, jokes, learning, video games, and lots of fun.
- **People**: You'll work with some of the most driven and intelligent people in the crypto space, engaging with a network of diverse talent from 25+ nationalities bound by our quest to #makecryptouseful.
- **Salary**: We pay competitively in the countries where we operate.
- **Venue**:Work from wherever you want, work asynchronously; this role is fully remote to give you maximum freedom.
- **Unlimited Paid Time-Off**: You choose your number of days off. Recharge batteries and enjoy who you are outside the office
- **Employee Stock Option Plan**: we want our team members to be owners of the company. Therefore, as we all together crave for the success of our business, you will be eligible to participate in our stock option plan
- This role is expected to work remotely.
- These are the applicable requisites, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.

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