Backend Tech Lead

Description

About Us

Join the Development team! At Hibob, developers are so much more than just your average coders. We play a key role in the planning, design, implementation, testing, and monitoring of bob, consistently building and enhancing our product with a purpose. We work alongside the product team to engineer and execute the unique features of our employee experience platform.

About The Role

We are searching for an innovative Technical Lead to join our company. As the Tech Lead, you will analyse briefs, identify risks, and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals. To be successful as a Tech Lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. Outstanding Tech Leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their teams.

What will you do?

• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes
• Reporting to R&D director
  
  

• At least 7 years experience in developing Scala/Java/ Kotlin backends for web
• At least 2 years of experience as a tech lead
• Experience developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks
• Knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL or equivalent)
• Knowledge in testing methodologies (Unit-testing, TDD, mocking)
• A passion for building products and helping people (Customers and colleagues)
• Experience with Play! Framework in Scala – an advantage
• Knowledge in AWS is an advantage.
• Relevant Management certification may be required
• Experience in a similar role would be advantageous
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field