At Carwow (Permanent), in Porto, Portugal
Salary : €75.000 - €85.000
Expires at : 2022-08-17
Remote policy : Full remote
Technical Leads at carwow works on a cross-functional product team of product managers, engineers, designers and data analysts.
They play a key role in shaping the technical delivery of a product team by helping set up team OKR's that align with business objectives alongside product managers, scoping and helping the team break down strategic objectives into tactical work, ensuring technology architecture and principles alignment within the team, and coaching the team alongside engineering managers to deliver great customer experiences.
Core
Play the lead engineer role within a cross-functional squad of developers, product managers, data analysts and designers
Discuss insights on how customers use our product and make suggestions for how we can constantly improve the user experience and grow the customer base
Lead the team in scoping how new features can be built, and how customer needs can be met while making pragmatic technical trade-offs
Write maintainable and performant code, with tests and documentation
Collaborate with your team on getting things done - review code and help out with constructive feedback
Monitor and support your team's software in production.
Strategic
Define a roadmap of experiments and initiatives to grow the paying customer base of carwow alongside a product manager
Contribute your expert opinion on the scope and feasibility of the initiatives your team considers
Help shape the technical strategy for our approach to experimentation in the product
Be a good strategic delegator, understanding when to delegate tasks to the team and when to take ownership.
Tactical
Contribute to a diverse engineering culture based on customer-centricity, high-quality code, data-driven decisions, technical innovation and business impact
Develop and test product improvements that build customer growth
Collaborate with other technical leads and engineers inside and outside of the team, helping them to do their best work and deliver projects according to our values and brand
Understand the important technical differentiating factors of our product, and leverage those in our architecture.
Main requirements
Please note : We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we've listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you feel you're close to the brief but not an exact match.
Your attributes
You may be just the right person if others have described you as
Technically experienced
Collaborative
Impactful
Your previous experience
Have worked as a senior software engineer or technical lead, primarily working with Ruby on Rails (our core stack) or Python
Have worked in a metrics-driven team, having a direct impact on the growth
Have designed websites and backend systems and APIs to a high standard of security, reliability and operability
Are familiar with some of the technologies we use to run our platform (Heroku, Docker, Terraform)
Enjoy leading distributed teams and working cross-functionally with product managers, designers, user researchers and other developers
Are keen to learn continuously, share your knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others.
NB : We know that no candidate will be the perfect match for all we've listed in this posting, so we’d encourage you to apply if you feel you're close to the brief but not an exact match.
For example, we are open minded to people who have experience in Python who are interested in working with Ruby
Benefits & Perks
A competitive salary with equity in the company (share options)
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve or an alternative religious holiday of your choice*
Private medical health insurance
Free access to Sanctus mental-health coaching sessions
The latest core Tech (Macbook Air or PC Surface Pro)
Home Office budget of £500 / €550
if you are not religious, this day will remain as Christmas Eve in conjunction with usual Christmas Bank Holidays 
