NOTE: It is a FULLY distant position, however the candidate have to be throughout the EMEA (Europe, Center East, and Africa) area with a view to collaborate with their crew, friends, and clients. You do not need to be within the particular nation or metropolis proven on this itemizing, however please don’t apply in case you are not bodily primarily based throughout the EMEA area.
Please observe that though this place provides the pliability of distant work, it requires a full-time dedication to supporting Hostaway solely
Hostaway is a SaaS startup that’s remodeling the holiday rental trade. With revolutionary options and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Reserving, we’re taking over the competitors and profitable. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we persistently ship outcomes that encourage progress, studying, and innovation for our crew, our clients, and the trade.
As a worthwhile and rising firm, this position is necessitated by our continued progress
In regards to the position
Tech Leads inside Hostaway are in a pivotal technical management position to make sure their cross-functional crew builds the fitting options that clear up buyer issues in a means that’s safe, extensible and scalable for the longer term. Tech Leads are anticipated to manipulate the technical maturity for his or her respective area, having a transparent view of the architectural challenges and find out how to remediate them over time.
Having a detailed relationship with the area’s Product Supervisor is vital. Whereas the PM brings the what, you’re their peer answerable for bringing the how. Digging deep into the enterprise drawback the PM is attempting to unravel is vital to have the ability to make the fitting choices on find out how to form the technical resolution for the crew to work on.
You’re supported by an Engineering Supervisor who will assist information the day-to-day supply facets of the crew, making certain we break work down into tangible small duties, give attention to a sustainable however high-performing supply cadence, and guarantee now we have the fitting candidates in place.
- 6+ years of expertise in software program improvement, with no less than 2 years in a management position
- Professional-level proficiency in a Backend programming language, we use PHP.
- Robust understanding of MySQL and database optimization strategies
- Intensive expertise with AWS providers and cloud structure
- Confirmed monitor file of main and mentoring cross-functional engineering groups
- Wonderful problem-solving and debugging abilities
- Robust communication abilities, each technical and non-technical
- Expertise with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices
- Capacity to steadiness technical debt with supply of recent options in a fast-paced atmosphere
- Strong understanding of software program design patterns and architectural ideas
- Expertise with working in SaaS product firms
Good to have abilities for this position:
- Expertise with front-end engineering (e.g., ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindUI and related)
- Information of containerisation applied sciences (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with transitioning to microservices architectures and Area-Pushed Design
- Expertise with efficiency monitoring and optimisation instruments
- Understanding of safety greatest practices in internet purposes
- Expertise with scalability challenges in high-growth environments
- Information of machine studying and AI ideas
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- The flexibility to exert Excessive Programming values & strategies to the crew
An Common Day for a Tech Lead
- 10:00-10:15 Fast crew stand-up, certainly one of your crew members appear to be engaged on an issue you labored on earlier than, and supply to pair with them after the stand-up to help
- 10:30-14:00 Pairing with certainly one of your crew members to work on a fancy scalability problem collectively and grabbing a fast chew to re-fuel these pesky braincells in-between coding periods!
- 14:00-15:00 Doing a design session with the Product Supervisor and UX designer for a big upcoming function that the crew ought to choose up subsequent week. You ask lots of inquiries to drill right down to the issue we try to unravel, and counsel some simpler options that require much less effort for the crew.
- 15:00-16:00 The design session triggered some ideas about different areas of the system that will likely be affected. You’re doing a fast dive within the affected areas of the code and discover some technical debt which may have an effect on the system’s scalability or reliability. You create a quick Jira ticket and tag the Product Supervisor to assist get it prioritised and to make sure it isn’t forgotten. You additionally ping the ticket to one of many different domains’ tech leads, as you recall them mentioning an analogous drawback current in one other area crew.
- 16:00-16:30 Fast catch-up with the Engineering Supervisor on the groups supply reliability and how one can assist preserve Work in Progress (WIP) and Pull Request (PR) evaluate time to a minimal
- 16:30-18:00 Speaking about PR’s, there are literally nonetheless a number of open. You’re taking the final a part of the day to evaluate your groups PRs. There are some nice options supplied, however one of many junior engineers launched some code that’s tough to take care of and is missing unit assessments. You soar on a fast name with them to elucidate the problems and why it issues.
What we provide
- Aggressive Compensation: We provide aggressive pay primarily based on market charges within the nation of the applicant.
- 100% Distant: Benefit from the freedom to work from wherever inside your nation of residence—be it a co-working area, your private home workplace, and even your eating room desk. The selection is yours. Simply don’t ask to work in our workplace (we don’t have one).
- Fairness: Each position in our firm comes with useful inventory choices in a fast-growing and worthwhile firm. This ensures all of us share within the firm’s success.
- Values-Pushed Management: Our Core Values aren’t simply phrases we’ve written to make us really feel good. We leverage them every day when making strategic and tactical choices.
- Skilled Development: Our speedy progress provides unparalleled studying and improvement alternatives, together with a large number of profession development alternatives.
- Annual Paid Depart: The precise quantities fluctuate by nation and are aligned with nation and/or contract-specific norms.
- Geographic Particular Advantages: As a global employer, we provide completely different country-specific advantages equivalent to Well being Insurance coverage and Pensions in international locations the place these perks are customary. The specifics depend upon the nation of the applicant.
- Dynamic Group Tradition: As a world firm with crew members in over 40 international locations, our various and worldwide tradition fuels our innovation and creativity, offering a key pillar to our success (and making it lots of enjoyable to work right here).
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