Lead Software Developer - eCommerce Startup

Cherry Ventures is assisting our portfolio company with this key hire.

Team Lead - Senior Software Engineer - Tel Aviv or Amsterdam (Hybrid)

What is Swap?

Say hello to the e-Commerce OS.

We are remote first, with a small and vibrant team brimming with ideas on making life easier for our e-commerce clients. Backed by Cherry Ventures, one of Europe's leading seed stage VCs with amazing angels from Wayflyer, Zalando, Pleo & Brookfield.

Your role

Help build our product from the ground up, in a stable, scalable way. You will be joining our tech team in an exciting phase of hyper growth where you will help shape the future of Swap. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar (and up to date) with their development ecosystem for making sound decisions when it comes to choosing the right tool or library for the job. We expect our engineers to be able to contribute across the entire product stack, as well as collectively oversee the integrity of the codebase.

Your responsibilities

In this role you'll be:

• Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
• Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
• Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward efficient architecture
• Writing design documents and estimates
  
  

• 3+ years of relevant experience in writing Typescript/JavaScript, using Node.js to architect and create REST and/or GraphQL APIs
• Strong technical experience in modern front-end Typescript/JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React.js
• Experience writing unit tests
• Good understanding of and experience with git & git workflows
• Experience with relational DBs, data modelling and writing SQL queries, and familiarity with NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and the deployment of workloads to cloud infrastructure
• Passion for writing clean, testable and robust code
• A BSc in Computer Science or Mathematics (or equivalent experience)
• Enjoy working in a fast paced, high-growth environments
• A team player mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently
  
  

• A meaningful equity stake in Swap. As one of our early team members you will get a real stake in the company you are helping to build
• Work from our new hubs in Tel Aviv or Amsterdam and if you are interested in relocating from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam, we'll take care of your relocation