Team Lead Backend Engineer, BEAT81

• Experienced in developing distributed applications
• Knowledge of Javascript (ES6, Node.js, Typescript, Promises, Event loop)
• You have experience in leading, building and growing engineering teams
• Good understanding of deployment processes and continuous delivery
• You hold experience in writing simple, readable, useful code, especially for operational tooling
• You are fluent in English
• Strong experience in software architecture and application design, with a track record of making architectural decisions and a understanding of fundamental system architecture and API design (RESTful and event-driven services)
• Experienced in SQL and database schema design (PostgreSQL)
• You are highly cooperative person with the ability to establish and foster relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• You are motivated by the challenge to solve problems and you like the fast-paced environment of a startup

Desirable

• As a Team Lead Backend Engineer, you'll have a direct impact on the fitness platform that powers our workouts and helps our members to get healthy and fit
• You'll be working on an event-driven microservice system implemented in Javascript and node.js, driving the efficiency on how we build this project and managing the people allocated in this team
• You will be responsible for keeping this crucial element to our experience reliable, scalable, observable and maintainable to support our continuous user base growth
• We are big fans of devops culture, continuous integration/deployment and less bureaucratic process in favor of autonomy and responsibility
• You will have the opportunity to use cutting-edge tools and technologies, both cloud-based and integrated within our IoT-equipped gyms
• This pioneering role involves close collaboration with our Chief Technology Officer, Luis, as well as with our engineering and product teams at the Berlin office
• Creating engaging fitness digital experiences that are delightful to our members and helps our coaches to deliver the best workout
• Architect, design, develop and operate our systems powering workouts and the customer and coach apps
• Helping your team deliver business value by taking decisions related to the backend and actively participating in product discussions and other stakeholders
• Hiring, mentoring and coaching your direct reports to be the best they can be
• Support high and low level technical decisions
• Continuously improve and enhance our microservices and our queue systems
• Design and implement new APIs
• Improve and take responsibility for deployment and release processes
• Working with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases
• Continuously improving the management and engineering processes for the team and services
• Ingest requirements, scope work, produce estimates and help define deliverables with project timeline