Level: Lead

Job Field: IT, DevOps, Back End

Employment Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent employment

Salary: 56.000 to 65.000€ Gross/Year

Location: Graz

Working Model: Onsite

Job Summary

In this role, you lead the backend team, make architectural and design decisions, resolve implementation issues, and develop scalable backend services using Go, Node.js, and Kubernetes for innovative electric vehicle charging solutions.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to take over the Backend Team.
You will be a player-coach.
You will take high-level architectural and system design decisions as well as deep dive into code to help solve implementation problems.
The Backend Team is responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating services used to communicate with and process data from our embedded devices.
Our existing codebase uses a mixture of Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
The individual services are executed either as bare systemd services directly on Linux servers or deployed as containers either into a Docker runtime or even to a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster, where appropriate.
With your contribution, you will impact how people will charge their cars in the future.
Zusammenarbeit mit dem Product Owner bei der Planung der Produkt-Roadmap
Establishing a technical roadmap
Aligning priorities and planning tasks with the project manager
Handling maintenance of our existing codebase and cloud infrastructure
Identifying problems and bottlenecks, whether they are related to processes, products, or team members, and taking action to solve them.
Mentoring and supporting team members through team meetings and 1:1s
Guiding the team whenever necessary on smooth technical implementation
Designing and developing scalable backend services for web, embedded, and mobile applications
Help maintain our self-hosted Linux server infrastructure
Participate in the full development life cycle, from design to implementation, quality assurance, and maintenance.
Deploying services to physical servers as well as Kubernetes environments
Collaborating with app and embedded developers to implement efficient and easy-to-use communication protocols
Building and scaling the team by participating in recruitment and onboarding
Being hands-on with the product

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Our expectations of you

Qualifications

Familiarity with git-based repositories and CI/CD systems
Familiarity with GitLab and GitHub CI/CD
Exposure to Linux as a server operating system - you feel comfortable using a terminal and associated shell
Understanding of costs and priorities in making assumptions and solutions
Excited to work independently and take responsibility
Eager to grow structures and processes in a company
Able to communicate openly and in an effective manner
Work-level proficiency in English

Experience

Solid experience in leading a team and coaching team members
At least 5 years of experience developing backend applications
Experience writing Node.js and Go applications
Experience with SQL database solutions like Postgres and time-series optimized databases like Clickhouse
Experience with Docker and container management
Experience (or interest) in maintaining highly available environments and architect new scalable tech stacks
Experience in the field of EV charging solutions or physical products
Experience managing a Kubernetes cluster
Experience reading or writing C++ code
Professional experience in both start-ups and established companies