Technical Lead - Ruby on Rails

Pixelogic Media Partners, LLC provides distribution services and technology solutions to the entertainment industry. We help studios, broadcasters and digital retailers localize and distribute their feature and episodic titles to global audiences on-time and with superior quality.

Our service offerings cover end-to-end workflows including language services such as scripting, subtitling, access services, dubbing, text and metadata localization in over 50 languages. Our technical services master and prepare this content in all distribution products including digital cinema, digital media and physical media (Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD).

To date, we serviced thousands of titles for iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Movies Anywhere and others. We also authored thousands of Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD titles. Our research and development team works on cutting-edge technologies such as 4K, high dynamic range (Dolby Vision, HDR10+), artificial intelligence and machine learning, software automation and our proprietary end-to-end operating platform branded as pHelix.

Experience start-up at scale. Be part of building innovative solutions to service our media and entertainment clients and help us fulfill their content distribution needs. Join us if you’re passionate about entertainment, innovation and customer service excellence!
We are looking for a Backend Team Lead who has comprehensive knowledge in Ruby on Rails, is highly familiar with distributed service architectures and has already successfully led the development of complex web applications in a professional capacity.

Primary Responsibilities:

• You bring in your enthusiasm, knowledge and skills to develop the most advanced SaaS solution for audiovisual content management and distribution
• You advise and coordinate your teammates as well as third-party developers to craft robust, highly optimized software components
• You prototype, conceptualize and optimize features for various web applications
• You review team members’ code to ensure high-quality and continuous learning and ensuring all code contributions match the conventions you’ve helped to set up
• You ensure that all development is state of the art, easy to maintain and simple to use
• You mentor others by teaching best coding practices and by introducing new technologies and/or methodologies
• You work across teams with support, frontend, quality assurance and design to achieve company-wide goals