Backend Team Lead, Komoot
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Navigation technology for outdoor experiences
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Navigation technology for outdoor experiences
201-500 employees
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More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow everybody to better find, plan and live authentic outdoor experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Are a passionate team leader and bring a strong technical background in backend development
- Have 3+ years of experience as the lead of a long-term and high-performing team
- Have 5+ years of experience in backend engineering (preferably Kotlin, Java, or Python)
- Have 2+ years of experience with managed cloud services, ideally using AWS
- Know how to build scalable, data-intensive backend systems and APIs
- Share complex ideas in clear and simple language
- Can make tough decisions and take responsibility for their consequences
- Find satisfaction in enabling your colleagues to thrive
- Have strong moderating skills to bring discussions to a successful conclusion
- Show empathy for your colleagues as well as being able to give direct and sometimes uncomfortable feedback
- Are a great communicator in a diverse, international, and fully remote team
- You know that team comes first and you go second
What the job involves
- As the backend team, we enable users to explore the outdoors by rapidly creating and operating high throughput and high quality APIs. These serve as a gateway to our features, used by our client apps (web, Android, iOS, GPS devices, ... ) as well as many partners such as Garmin, Wahoo, and Bosch. In this role, you’ll lead a team of six talented backend engineers, creating a productive environment where they can collaborate, grow, and do their best work
- You’ll also guide our tech choices, redesign and evolve the team’s processes, as well as find, hire and onboard new team members. You’re all about helping the team reach new heights, so they can drive komoot forward on its journey to become the world's leading outdoor platform
- Be the advocate and voice of the backend team at komoot
- Build and develop your team: Recruit, onboard, and mentor backend engineers
- Monitor your teammates' performance, coach them on professional and personal development, conduct salary negotiations, lead hiring and offboarding processes
- Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development among team members
- Establish best practices for team processes
- Set goals for team development and technical innovation, and ensure your team achieves and is celebrated for them
- Help the team build a modern and effective tech stack at an industry-leading level
- Keep an overview of modern backend technologies, manage technical projects, and orchestrate technical decisions
- Manage external services and tools, and oversee contracts with vendors and suppliers
- Collaborate with analytics, data science, as well as the frontend and other backend teams
Our take
With the rise of mobile apps, using technology to access outdoor adventures has never been more popular. Komoot, founded in 2010, helps millions of people across Europe plan and enjoy hiking and cycling tours with its Android & iOS apps.
Komoot is aiming to become the go-to app for cyclists and hikers across Europe. To do this, it's growing its community status through competitive and friendly route-sharing technology, as well as increasing its brand awareness to compete with other apps such as Strava and MapMyRide.
With staff all over the world, this work-where-you-want operational structure makes Komoot well-placed to expand into new markets. With this strategy, Komoot is helping more and more people to enjoy exploring nature, by putting as little friction as possible between users and the outdoors - ultimately making the outdoors accessible for anyone with a smartphone, regardless of experience.
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Company benefits
- 38 days of vacation (incl. public holidays)
- Dedicated time and budget to spend on your professional development: classes, conferences, books – your choice!
- Discounts from leading outdoor and cycling brands
- Flexible working hours and ability to work from anywhere in Europe
- Three whole-company gatherings per year in beautiful locations
- Optional “togetherness” trips with your team
- Costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work from home office
- The latest devices and equipment to do your best work
Company values
- Impact - We are builders & makers. We measure our own success by how impactful our work is. We put the user first. Always. We don’t do things just to do them, we do the right things to deliver maximum impact
- Responsibility - We hire people who are experts at what they do, and we give them the freedom to do it. With great freedom comes great responsibility. We consider the long view and effects on company and colleagues. Who’s the boss? You. Everybody. Our users
- Communication - Communication is all about understanding each other and talking is just the beginning. We share our ideas and learn from one another each and everyday. We listen to our users and each other to solve problems that matter. We share ideas, learnings and feedback with openness and clarity
- Curiosity - We love to learn. And we champion curiosity. No matter what our field of expertise, we’re always asking questions. Data scientists, copywriters and developers work alongside each other to solve problems for real outdoor fans
- Excellence - We’re constantly improving. Some of us are real optimization nerds. We take nothing for granted and constantly strive for the best. We don’t believe in repetitive work, that’s why we don’t have a structure for it. Repetitive work is for machines ... and we’re not robots
Company HQ
Südliche Innenstadt, Potsdam, Germany
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Leadership
Tobias Hallermann
(Co-Founder)After studying mechanical engineering at the University of Munich, they decided to become an entrepreneur and moved to Berlin. In January 2010, they co-founded Komoot.
Markus Hallermann
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied material science, they worked at SwissRe as a student trainee for over 2 years, before co-founding generation next consulting and working as a Research Associate at GE Global Research for 3 years. In January 2010, they co-founded Komoot as CEO.
People progressing
Joined Komoot in April 2019 as Partnership Manager after a year at Mind Gym and 3 years at Cycling Sports Group. In October 2019, they were promoted to Director of Business Development.
After working in Marketing at Mehrner Quelle and XLETIX, they joined Komoot as a Content Editor intern in December 2016. Since July 2017, they have worked as a Marketing Manager. As of February 2022, they have been promoted to Senior Partnership Manager.
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