Lead Software Engineer

RYZ Labs is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join one of our client’s teams. They are developing autonomous robots for last-mile-services, revolutionizing urban logistics with efficient, sustainable deliveries. The company is a leader in robotics and automation, transforming the way goods are delivered in urban environments.

As the Delivery Platform Engineering Lead, you will oversee the development of highly scalable and robust systems that power the Delivery Management and Fleet Management platforms. You will spend about 75% of your time coding, designing and reviewing Elixir code, while also providing leadership and direction to a small, focused engineering team. Your goal is to ensure that the systems meet the demands of rapid expansion, remain reliable and are built to support ongoing innovation in the logistics domain.

Responsibilities:

- Architect & Develop: Design, implement and maintain distributed systems in Elixir, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance and performance.

- Technical Leadership: Mentor a small team of engineers, establish best practices and lead by example through hands-on coding and code reviews.

- Platform Ownership: Own the Delivery and Fleet Management platforms, ensuring they meet SLAs, reliability targets and evolving business requirements.

- Scaling & Performance: Identify bottlenecks, devise solutions and optimize systems to handle rapid increases in traffic and data volume.

- Collaboration: Partner with product managers, operations teams and other stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives.

- Quality & Process Improvement: Champion code quality, testing strategies and continuous integration/deployment. Proactively seek opportunities to streamline workflows and enhance team productivity.

- Future-Proofing: Experience staying current with emerging technologies and industry best practices, integrating relevant tools and techniques to keep the platforms cutting-edge.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of professional experience in software development

- Technical Experience:

2+ years of experience in Elixir or Erlang with a strong background in building large-scale, distributed systems.

Solid grasp of concurrency, fault tolerance and event-driven architectures.

Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

- Leadership & Team Management:

Experience managing small, agile engineering teams.

Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Hands-On Approach:

Comfortable spending 75% of your time coding, troubleshooting and reviewing code.

Passion for building well-crafted, maintainable software.

What Makes You Stand Out:

- Strategic Vision: You think beyond immediate tasks to chart a roadmap that ensures platform longevity and innovation.

- Process Innovator: You excel at identifying inefficiencies and driving changes that boost overall team performance.

- Relentless Drive for Quality: You set high standards for code and system design, continually raising the bar for your team and the organization.

- Strong Cross-Functional Communicator: You effectively collaborate with product, operations and executive teams to ensure technology and business goals remain in sync.

- Passion for Logistics: You bring curiosity and enthusiasm for solving complex challenges in delivery and fleet management, keeping up with the latest trends and technologies in the space.

About RYZ Labs:

RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries,planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion, and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:

- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.

- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.

- Ownership -  step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility. 

- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone who interacts with RYZ with respect.

- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less

- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way. 

- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, and our expectations. The status quo is not good enough and never should be.