Tech Team Lead, AnyVan
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
Delivery, removals and transport marketplace
Open for applications
Delivery, removals and transport marketplace
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reduce carbon emissions through efficient logistics by developing a best in class technology platform using clever algorithms.
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
87% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2022
$166.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $166.1m
Company benefits
- We support flexible working and hybrid working wherever possible. However, we are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides and all our roles require some time in one of our key offices depending on where you’re based (UK - London (Hammersmith), Newcastle, Cape Town, Szegad in Hungary
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) which increase with length of service up to 30 days
- Standard pension contribution
- Small in-house gym, safe cycle storage and shower facilities
- In-house barista and free breakfast and snacks every day
- Regular social events and beer fridge
- Opportunities for fast internal career progression based on outputs not tenure
- An opportunity to pilot new ideas that impact the growth and direction of the business
- The chance to work for a fast-growing disruptive technology business
Company HQ
Brackenbury Village, London, UK
Leadership
Angus Elphinstone
(CEO)Founded removals and deliveries company White Van Gentlemen in 2006 which morphed into AnyVan in 2009.
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