Tech Team Lead, AnyVan

Salary not provided

PHP

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Java

Vue.js

Spring

Senior and Expert level

London

3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)

Delivery, removals and transport marketplace

Open for applications

Delivery, removals and transport marketplace

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceLogisticsTransportFreightDelivery

Open for applications

Salary not provided

PHP

AWS

JavaScript

Python

Java

Vue.js

Spring

Senior and Expert level

London

3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceLogisticsTransportFreightDelivery

Company mission

To create the world's most efficient logistics technology, to help halve the number of these wasted miles.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We're looking for a Team Lead, with a strong technical background, who isn’t afraid to own business critical problems
Experience working in a fast paced consumer focused business
Bonus points if you've worked with pricing team or in a marketplace or SaaS based business
Deep experience with cloud technologies (ideally AWS) and a passion for working with our tech stack with a back end focus (Java with spring, javascript, Vue.Js, Python, PHP)
A strong bias to action and accountability mindset to deliver results
A fail fast learn quick mentality
Whilst it would be great if you have some experience of managing small teams, we're also open to considering a strong senior/lead engineer with a passion for people leadership, ready to step up
Able to build excellent relationships and influence key stakeholders (internally and externally) to consistently deliver against key projects
Genuine passion for the end product and delivering outstanding technical solutions with pragmatic, logical and maintainable code
Familiar with software architecture patterns, database optimisations, infrastructure, scalability and deployment
A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and practical hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery & QA
Experience working in and driving an Agile development environment
A bias to action with a proven track record of getting things done at high tempo
Currently located in the UK, able to commute to our offices in Hammersmith and happy to be onsite at least 3 days a week
Strong alignment with our company values

What the job involves

We’re an agile organisation - while most of our teams use scrum with two week sprints, we’re not prescriptive and encourage engineering managers and product managers to adapt processes to match their team
We believe strongly in delivering business value, and our engineering managers will regularly interact with stakeholders from all backgrounds and seniority - all the way up to board members - to ensure the team is aligned with the broader business
We're a cloud-first organisation, with AWS being our cloud provider of choice, and our preferred programming languages are Java - with Spring - and Javascript - using Vue.js
We’re not against exploring other languages where appropriate, with other projects using Python and TypeScript
And of course, no scale up would be complete without a legacy PHP stack we’re slowly migrating away from!
Well, no-one’s perfect…
The squad you will lead will be focusing on pricing solutions
Our pricing is dynamic, complex and getting it right is integral to our growth strategy
Ensure the technical direction of the team matches the business strategy, balancing technical debt and non-functional requirements with a need to execute quickly and iteratively
Manage a small but high performing team that delivers solutions rapidly and to high quality, ensuring you have the right people in place, supporting their development through consistent feedback and stretch objectives to high performers
Collaborate closely with product to enable your team to specify, prioritise and deliver high quality solutions which solve important business problems
Work closely with senior leadership, highlighting organisational blockers and aligning everyone around the team’s priorities, as well as flagging where the team needs additional input or support
Help energise and invigorate AnyVan and your team’s technical culture, both through day to day interactions, as well as working with the Head of Engineering and CTO on our technical strategy

Salary benchmarks

Our take

When AnyVan founder Angus discovered that 50% of all vehicles on the road were half empty and had plenty of space to carry other items, he started AnyVan to give drivers the opportunity to use their empty space to make money and offer customers cost effective solutions to move their items and reduce the volume of vans on the road.

AnyVan offers delivery solutions for consumers, businesses and retailers, facilitating both on-demand and advanced bookings. Since launch, AnyVan has focussed predominantly on the consumer market utilising technology to shake up the traditional logistics model.

Driver tracking, two-hour collection & delivery time slots and evolving from reverse auction models to instant pricing has helped growth. As the property market boomed in the previous few years with people wanting to move homes and an increased demand for freight and retailers to deliver for their customers, the company has seen consistent growth.