Key tasks and responsibilities

• Manage our team of software engineers and data scientists, working across backend, frontend and mobile


• Take architectural decisions and defend them towards all stakeholders


• Lead by example by writing well-tested, concise code across our stack


• Choose the right tools and institute good development practices


• Improve and maintain our production environment, for example by adding monitoring and alerting (DevOps)


• Set up a modern development workflow for your team, including a continuous integration pipeline and automated deployments


• Be the interface between the development team, the product management team and the rest of the company


• Manage the hiring process and grow/develop your team 


• Support the developers in your team with technical guidance

Key skills / requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience in a general purpose programming language


• BSc degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience


• Leadership experience


• History of taking or influencing major architectural decisions


• Lived or instituted good development practices like testing, code reviews, agile development


• Likeable personality with good communication skills


• Ability to quickly get up to speed in any programming language or system if needed


• Ability to tackle problems outside your comfort zone and get things done without supervision


• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Desirable:

• Experience in any of the following programming languages: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust or Go


• Experience working with one or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, service oriented architectures, REST APIs, developing large software systems


• Expert knowledge of Git or another DVCS


• Good spoken and written knowledge of German