Tech Lead, Picnic Technologies

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related technical field
• You have at least 7 years of experience and a profound understanding of back-end development including Java, Spring Boot, AMQP, and SQL
• You have at least 2 years of experience in leading projects and/or teams
• You are a strong abstract thinker and are able to translate high level architectures into executable plans at a high pace
• You have an intrinsic need to validate your own ideas with others, and are a star at leveraging, and learning from, other people’s expertise
• You have demonstrable experience in large-scale, long running refactoring projects
• Your decision making is based on business risks and opportunities
• You have worked extensively with cloud-based software architecture
• You have affinity with hardware automation
• You have great English skills (no Dutch required) and are able to structure your thoughts and express them clearly verbally and in writing

Desirable

• You will be responsible for the delivery of projects and for developing the skills and strengths of the people working in your team. As a Tech Lead, you will lead by example, not by title
• You work together with the other Warehouse Systems teams to accomplish our vision of a modular software platform that supports our manual and automated fulfilment operations
• You collaborate with stakeholders from tech and business on multiple business-critical projects simultaneously, and actively steer the solution design to support all of those
• You ensure smooth day-to-day operation, and proactively communicate with your colleagues in the operations to validate the quality and effectiveness of your team’s software
• You make pragmatic trade-offs between timeline and cost, without sacrificing quality
• You help the team plan and prioritise, and ensure a smooth delivery of the planned work
• You are able to communicate your views both when specifying new features with stakeholders and while providing technical mentorship to your colleagues
• You build and evaluate team members through regular development conversations, personalized coaching, and mentorship to foster growth and achieve career goals
• You build it - you run it - you love it: you will be responsible for managing a sustainable support model for your product