Engineering Lead (m/w/d)
We are looking for an Engineering Lead (m/w/d) to take over team management from the CTO, accelerate development of our cross-product platform and better enable our product teams to focus on building their products.
About the role
- Direct management of the team, OKR planning and recruitment of new members in accordance with the hiring roadmap
- Reliably deliver high quality software products and serve as primary point of contact within the organization for technical questions and any needed alignment between teams
- Collaborate with the product leads to plan and estimate feature development in terms of time and resources for better placement into the yearly product roadmap.
- Maintain the flow of work for your team: review, prioritize, schedule any new work and regularly assess blockers and stagnant issues to help your team finish any work in progress.
- Further develop and influence our shared engineering practices as well as manage the teams access and adoption of tools and practices (ex: usage of Jira, Code Reviews, Code Standards, Test Practices, and other critical Ways of Working).
- Review project’s adherence to: customer SLAs, security, coding, UI/UX best practices, any performance targets for the application
- Participate in open communication with your colleagues towards the goals of improving our team, product, and processes.
Our current tech stack:
- Backend: Java 11, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, REST API, Elasticsearch, MinIO, AWS S3
- Frontend: JavaScript, Typescript, Aurelia, Webpack, HTML5, SCSS, Material Design Web
- Other: GitHub, CircleCI, AWS, Docker, Gradle, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code
About you:
- At least 5 years of technical experience with at least 2 years of experience in team management
- Experienced working in Java, JavaScript and/or TypeScript with at least one modern frontend framework (React, Angular, Aurelia, etc)
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure for one major provider ( AWS, Azure, GCP) and a CI tool (CircleCI, Jenkins, Travis, etc)
- Knowledge of at least one relational database (MySQL, Postgres, etc) and build tool (Maven, Gradle, etc)
- Effective manager, open, honest, and respectful communicator
- Pragmatic problem solver, goal focused and results oriented
- Open to work in an international environment – expected advanced level of English
- You are looking forward to working for a startup and are ready to take ownership
Nice to have:
- Bachelor or Master degree in STEM (preferably in CS)
- Experience with any of the following: Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Redis, MinIO, Code coverage tools, Application Security
