Lead Engineer (Backend) m/f/x (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Location: Remote

Description

As one of simpleclub's Lead Engineers, you will play a key role in building a product and team that will impact the way millions of students experience education and learning. Working closely with our VP of Engineering and our wider technical and product leadership you will help solve for securing the performance, experience and scalability of our product. Through your ownership with the support of your team, you will lead the design of a target architecture, scaleable, whilst implementing strategies to address and mitigate technical debt.

How will you make an impact:

• Lead an agile team, continuously developing simpleclub's products and platform, like our learning management tools, algorithms and reporting systems. You will be actively developing and maintaining code.


• Line manage and support the growth of your team members, via feedback, identifying growth path and opportunities and mentorship


• Working with other leads and engineers to set standards in our architecture, development, delivery and operations to guarantee high velocity and a scalable and reliable system


• Identify, prioritize, scope, plan and resolve technical debt with your team and in coordination with the Product Manager


• Actively participate and co-lead the discussions and setting of the product and technical OKRs for your team to drive impact for our customers


• Work alongside multidisciplinary teams of Product Managers and designers in the research and validation phases

What we value:

• At least 1-2 years of experience as a Lead Engineer and several years as an IC engineer


• Solid experience in Senior roles, including technical solution designs for complex and large problems


• Strong skills and experience in our back-end technologies we use: Node.js, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud functions, Pub/Sub
  


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, valuing and fostering teamwork not just within the engineering team; knowledge sharing, sense of ownership embracing agile development practices


• Ability to work and lead through change and ambiguity whilst inspiring others


• Experience in developing and maintaining growing/scaling up systems within multi-team setups, that are highly scalable, can be developed fast, are reliable and secure


• Strong computer science and software development fundamentals, including architecture and database design, data structures and algorithms


• Strong knowledge and experience with modern system architectures (cloud based, serverless, messaging systems, noSQL and SQL databases, ..)


• Sound knowledge of the infrastructure architecture and automation (Terraform), large-scale distributed systems and cloud solutions such as Google Cloud Platform


• Experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives. You have a passion for delivering value to users.


• Solid knowledge and appreciation of DevOps
  

What is in for you:

• Unlimited paid holidays


• Work from anywhere


• Team events


• A great culture


• Perk Budget


• Join a purposeful mission

💰Your salary: We 💙 transparency. We have different levels within our salary bands, and we use these levels to determine a fair salary for each range. Your salary is reviewed at least once a year.
The salary band for this role in Germany is: 82.700 - 111.900 EUR annually gross. If you live outside of Germany, we will adapt to your local market.

We have implemented salary bands in all job descriptions to ensure we treat all employees fairly. Once we get to know each other better and understand your skills and experience during the interview process, we will be able to evaluate where you would fit within the salary band.


🌍simpleclub welcomes everyone. Yes, everyone:
At simpleclub we are devoted to building an environment that promotes equality, inclusion, and diversity. We are on the path towards expansion and with that, we believe everyone's uniqueness should be celebrated and embraced. This is critical to our success and innovation. We want to build a product that is loved by everyone and we want the same to be reflected in our teams.

It is key to us that our employees bring themselves to work no matter what age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, color of your skin, beliefs, gender, or else.

With this in mind, we are working to ensure simpleclub remains a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.