Engineering Lead

We are looking for an engineering leader in the Scout Management Platform (SMP) squad who loves working with both people and software. We expect that you, as a leader, are passionate about building an environment where software engineers can achieve their full potential. As a Senior Engineer, you have a great understanding of modern development techniques and can be a partner for the team to choose the best solutions. We expect that you can be an advocate of clean code, clean architecture, TDD (Test Driven Development), and pair programming and always welcome feedback.

You will be given a lot of autonomy and we want you to use the most of it and drive the team towards technical excellence. We hope you feel learning is a natural part of your workday and you have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.

THE CHALLENGE:

• Lead a team of diverse and talented software engineers with various levels of expertise.
• Coach engineers to grow, by supporting and giving them frequent feedback, setting individual goals, and assessing performance.
• Facilitate technical discussions and help to make the best decisions.
• Be a member of the Tribe Engineering Leadership Team shaping the culture and engineering practices of the entire Tribe.
• Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products. Lead prioritization efforts and provide mentorship to others.
• Contribute to the code (we do not need you to be the best programmer in the team, but we believe in ‘walk the talk’)
• Coordinate release activities, including clear and detailed plans or checklists for testing and roll-out.

Requirements

• Past demonstrated hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
• Experience in building and leading motivated, high-performing teams working in an agile environment
• Hands-on software development experience (in Java & Kotlin)
• Ability to write a clean, well-crafted, and tested code (XP, TDD)
• Excellent communication skills, ability to engage colleagues to thoughtfully work toward a single goal and help the team to adapt and succeed when things do not go exactly as planned.
• Broad technical experience to understand the complexity of services the squad develops, challenge ideas and facilitate technical discussion
• Advocate good practices like clean code, design patterns, TDD, pair programming etc
• Experience with cloud-native applications (preferably AWS) and some experience with PHP is preferred
• Experience with large-scale event streaming architectures, messaging brokers (for example Kafka), graphQL
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes