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Technical Lead (Ruby on Rails, AI-Native)

Jobgether · Schweiz · Part time · Remote · CHF 3,542 – 4,792 / month

About this role

This is a part-time (50%) Technical Lead role for a travel technology business, focused on shaping engineering culture and guiding a distributed team of four developers. It suits experienced Ruby on Rails engineers with strong AI-native tool proficiency who prefer a flexible, remote-first environment over full-time coding volume.

Key details

• Location: Schweiz
• Work mode: Remote
• Contract: Part-time, 50% time commitment
• Pay: UK-based: £42,500–£57,500 per year; Poland-based: €52,000–€71,000 per year; LATAM-based (Colombia, Argentina, Brazil): $
• Level: Lead

What you'll do

• Establish and maintain a strong engineering culture, defining collaboration and communication standards.
• Set and uphold technical standards for code quality, maintainability, and reliability.
• Champion AI-native development practices, ensuring effective use of tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of four developers.
• Guide architectural and technical decisions to ensure scalability and alignment with business objectives.
• Review AI-assisted development workflows and outputs for quality, testing, and security.
• Establish clear development processes, coding conventions, and review practices for a distributed team.
• Support knowledge sharing and communication across developers in different time zones.

What you'll need

• At least 8 years of professional experience building production software systems.
• Strong professional experience with Ruby on Rails, including at least 6 years of production-level experience.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring a small engineering team.
• Excellent technical judgment and deep code-review capabilities.
• Daily hands-on experience with AI-native development tools, particularly Cursor and Claude Code.
• Familiarity with plan mode and AI-assisted coding workflows.
• Strong understanding of integrating AI-powered tools while maintaining code quality and reliability.
• Experience working in remote-first, geographically distributed teams.
• Strong communication, mentoring, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently within a part-time arrangement of approximately 4–5 hours per day, Monday through Friday.

Tech stack

Ruby on Rails, Cursor, Claude Code

What's on offer

• Fully remote, globally distributed working environment
• Flexible part-time schedule of approximately 4–5 hours per day, Monday through Friday
• Opportunity to shape engineering culture and AI-native development practices
• Direct influence on technical direction within an established, profitable travel technology business
• Exposure to modern AI-powered development tools
• International collaboration with developers and stakeholders across different countries and time zones

How to stand out for this role

Likely interview topics

• How to define and enforce code quality standards when a significant portion of code is generated by AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
• Strategies for mentoring a distributed team of four developers across multiple time zones to ensure cohesion and accountability.
• Specific experiences using 'plan mode' in AI-assisted coding workflows and how it impacts architectural decision-making.
• Methods for reviewing AI-assisted outputs to maintain security, testing, and production readiness without increasing overhead.
• Balancing part-time availability (4-5 hours/day) with the need for technical leadership and decision-making in a remote-first environment.

Keywords to mirror in your CV

Technical Lead, Ruby on Rails, AI-native development, Cursor, Claude Code, Distributed team, Code quality, Mentorship, Engineering culture, Part-time

What to show

• A case study detailing how you implemented or improved AI-assisted coding workflows (specifically using Cursor or Claude Code) in a production environment.
• Documentation or guidelines you created for establishing code review standards and technical standards for a remote team.
• Examples of architectural decisions you guided, highlighting how you ensured scalability and maintainability while leveraging AI tools.

How to apply

Use the "Apply on company website" button to continue to Jobgether's careers page and submit your application there.

Source: Adzuna