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Core Platform Team Lead

  • IT, Software development, System Engineering Jobs

Description

  • Guiding a team of 6-7 smart engineers, QAs and SREs from a diverse cultural and educational background. We believe that a cross-functional team delivers the best results!
  • Taking ownership of the full platform product lifecycle with your team; embracing the “you build it, you run it” principle consistently
  • Working according to agile principles with the freedom to set your own focus and tune your development methodology
  • Analyzing business requirements and design scalable solutions with a focus on backend technologies and APIs
  • Facilitating the collaboration in your team between the two locations and ensuring great and continued alignment
  • Taking on a role that combines management responsibilities with hands-on technical tasks
  • Managing and automating the Software Development Life Cycle using the latest DevOps techniques. You’ll have a DevOps / SRE engineer embedded in your team!
  • Report directly to our VP of Engineering
  • Work closely with our VP of Product Management 
  • In one year, you’ll know you were successful if…
    • - You have created a fully integrated and engaged team across our two locations
    • - You have helped build and introduce several new key features to our core platform
    • - You have defined clear ownership of your team to ensure your team can work as independently as - possible

Responsibilities

  • Master of Science, Computer Science or equivalent
  • Proven experience with leading a team of smart engineers in a cross-functional team setup
  • A team player, who leads by setting a good example for the team
  • Proven experience with the development of complex software solutions
  • Proven experience with design & coding of REST APIs, database solutions and microservices in C# or Java (4 years or more)
  • Experience with cloud-native application design is a big plus
  • Experience in the implementation of web applications
  • An agile mindset and always looking to improve yourself and the team around you
  • Experience with CI / CD, build pipelines, infrastructure as Code

Hard Skills

  • Coding and Programming (Python, C#, Java, PHP, etc
  • Data Analytics
  • Quality assurance
  • Software development
  • Graphic design
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Agile methodology

Soft Skills

  • Leadership
  • Team player
  • Skilled Collaborator