Engineering Technical Team Lead - remote

Veeqo
Posted 3 years ago
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Our position

Veeqo is an award winning high growth tech start-up company which has customers around the world and with ambitions to become the best platform for ecommerce retailers to manage their business.

At Veeqo, our team of Engineers is on a mission to create a world-class Inventory and Shipping platform, built to the highest standards in best coding practices. We are a growing team, looking for other passionate developers to join us on our journey.

Job Location

Swansea / Remote

Job description

  • We are looking for a technical team leader to head up one of our core team of Developers at Veeqo.
  • You will lead a team of Engineers to deliver on the product road map, providing both technical guidance to the team and making key architectural decisions in how things are implemented.
  • Maintain a short and constant feedback loop to Engineers providing regular PR reviews for submitted code.
  • Communicate effectively with other key stakeholders such as Product Managers, Support Agents and Senior Management to advise on technical implementations of feature requests or bug fixes.
  • Ability to provide rough estimates on delivery time to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ensure developers are able to perform all related tasks while giving clear guidance on career progression and achievable SMART objectives that will enhance their skill sets while providing real business value to Veeqo.
  • Champion the cause of Engineering excellence.

What do we expect from you

  • Very strong knowledge of Ruby programming language and Ruby on Rails framework
  • Ability to work with a remote team
  • Professional proficiency in English
  • Solid experience of managing applications at scale
  • Enjoys autonomy. Thrives on independent work with limited oversight
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to maintain critical thinking while balancing multiple tasks
  • Desire to build and maintain scalable, readable and secure code
  • Experience in training and providing technical mentorship to more junior engineers
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills
  • Strong, intellectual curiosity.

Nice to haves

  • Experience in working within the e-commerce space
  • An understanding of the order fulfilment process for online retailers

Our Engineering Practices

  • Test Driven Development
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous delivery
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Well-defined planning process
  • Regular team retrospectives
  • Working on an Agile/Lean basis

Benefits we provide

  • Competitive salary
  • Share options
  • Be part of a fast growing start-up and make a difference
  • Work in a ‘remote-first’company but with the option to come into the office which is a relaxed work environment with free hot and cold drinks
  • Flexible working
  • Vacation 33 working days per year inclusive of local public holidays
  • Paid sick leave
  • Work in a friendly, cross-functional team, with people who aim to be the best and love to tackle problems
  • Spotify Premium and gym or wellbeing contribution

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