Technical Lead - Nodejs
Remote EMEA
Engineering – 13001 - Engineering /
Full Time /
Remote
As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for the design, development, deployment and operation of critical features that add customer value on top of Voice, maintaining the operational excellence. This team will design, develop and operate a critical real-time, event-driven system on a cloud scalable architecture, based on Node.js and typescript, REST APIs, Open Search.
Best practices, evangelization, and mentoring in your team and across the whole of Engineering will be part of your day to day job. Quality, excellence, and agility drive our delivery processes and you will help us level these up being data driven with metrics, alarms and proper observability.
Your mission @ Aircall:
- Together with PM, Architecture & Staff Engineers drive the design and iterative execution of the roadmap.
- Together with PM & Engineering leadership, work on the cost/value estimation to define priority and sequence blocks in the roadmap.
- Work with PMs to coordinate kickoffs, brainstorming, feature specifications and prototyping between designers and engineers to facilitate better collaboration and product development.
- Promote a Devops mindset and ensure our teams are always architecting and building towards quality, continuous iteration and experimentation, efficiency and operational excellence as well as speed of launching to production.
- Ensure scrum ceremonies involve relevant stakeholders (especially from other Engineering areas and Product Management) and the team take actions after each ritual to improve its delivery.
- Teach and mentor engineers in technical and non-technical growth and learning, setting up goals and monitoring their performanceEnsure code/design/architecture/knowledge sharing reviews happen on teams in a timely manner and that work follows established best practices and standards.
- Coordinate with Engineering Leadership (meaning managers, Directors, CTO) to roll out engineering initiatives, as well as whenever cross-team work is necessary.
- Be active in the technology community, positively contribute to Aircall’s reputation, and find great candidates to grow the team
A little more about you:
- 8+ years experience in Software development preferably 5+years in Node.js & typescript, including minimum 2 years in similar team lead positions .
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Solid experience in building & operating real-time, cloud based and scalable architecture (preferably AWS).
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs
- A track record of successfully leading, delivering, and evolving large technical projects.
- Achieving results, solving difficult technical challenges and anticipating technical problems ahead of time.
- The ability and proven desire to successfully collaborate and communicate across teams to drive technical projects to completion balancing goals between tech and product.
- Success with mentoring, teaching, sponsoring, coaching, and collaborating with engineers.
- Previous experience in project and delivery management within an agile organization with a DevOps culture, and familiarized with the usage of tools oriented to agile development.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, ownership and people management skills.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
