About Portside, Inc.

Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Technical Leader to join our business aviation team. In this role, you will work at the intersection of technology, people, and processes to foster great aviation safety products, optimize team performance, and enhance the speed and quality of software development.

Key Responsibilities 

• Be the main technical point of contact on the development team
• Design and implement software solutions using Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and React Native, following industry best practices like SOLID, DRY, KISS, IoC, design patterns, etc.
• Develop and maintain APIs, ensuring they meet high performance, reliability, and security standards for internal and external system integrations
• Design database schemas, manage database operations with SQL, ensuring efficient database reliability
• Write unit and integration tests, collaborate with management on managing the test strategy and overall quality of the company products
• Define and manage code standards, make decisions on debatable technical topics
• Manage technical debt, identify technological risks, and collaborate with the management and development team on risk mitigation strategies
• Refactor existing software components in order to eliminate technical debt and improve application extensibility
• Estimate software development work, including major long-term projects and large features
• Deploy software releases to production and other environments
• Use and maintain CI/CD pipelines in coordination with the DevOps team
• Use and maintain AWS services in coordination with the DevOps team
• Work closely with the security team to maintain compliance with the company’s security standards
• Conduct code reviews
• Conduct meetings with engineers and management
• Conduct performance reviews and mentor engineers
• Conduct technical interviews
• Collaborate with the management team on setting project goals
• Be on-call 1 week per month

Technology Stack
Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, Jest, Cypress, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, React Native, CircleCI, NewRelic, Sentry, Docker, AWS

Qualifications

• Expert skills in Ruby on Rails and modern frontend frameworks, preferably Vue.js
• Significant experience and strong architectural skills in designing and implementing complex SaaS or enterprise solutions, including building solutions from scratch; experience with React Native or other mobile development technologies is a plus
• Experience in designing application architecture, a good understanding of the MVC, SOLID, DRY, KISS, Inversion of Control, design patterns, and other development best practices
• Experience in refactoring code, a solid understanding of the refactoring methodologies, and code smells
• Experience in defining and maintaining adherence to coding standards and development best practices
• Experience in conducting code reviews
• Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies
• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, good understanding of SDLC best practices and deployment procedures
• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience designing complex database solutions, experience working with ORMs and database migrations
• Strong and consistent understanding of GraphQL and REST API
• Experience with AWS is a plus
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people, as well as the ability to explain business requirements to software engineers
• Ability to estimate engineering work, identify risks and strategies for their mitigation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience conducting performance reviews and mentoring software engineers
• Practical and results-oriented engineering mindset
• Interest in business aviation and becoming a domain expert in the field

What you get

• Full-time employment
• Competitive salary
• Fully remote work
• Generous time off policy
• Company-sponsored private health insurance supplement

Portside is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.