Tech Lead - Devops and Backend Services (f/m/d)
About the job
What you will do
- Technical mentorship: Provide technical mentorship to the Devops and Backend Development team. This includes guiding the team on the use of appropriate tools, technologies and best practices.
- Code quality: Ensure that the code produced by the team is of high quality. This includes conducting code reviews, writing and enforcing coding standards, and using appropriate testing and validation techniques.
- Design and Architecture: Ensure software and infrastructure meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
- Being Hands on: Spend 20 - 30% of the time on developing features and setting up infrastructure.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product leads and principal engineers to ensure that the technical design aligns with the product requirements.
- Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation within the team. This includes exploring new tools and technologies that could improve the development process, and promoting the use of best practices to achieve technical excellence.
- Understand the vision of the organization along with planned development roadmaps and put in place a strategy to manage the technical infrastructure and support development efficiently.
The optimal candidate:
- Education: Completed apprenticeship in computer sciences or university degree in computer sciences, (electrical) engineering, mathematics or sciences.
- Experience: Strong background in Infrastructure and Software Engineering with over 8 years experience developing and delivering high-quality software products across multiple technologies.
- Domain Knowledge: knowledge of highly-scalable microservice backend developed in Go. Outstanding skills to build modern cloud infrastructure like AWS / Azure / Google Cloud. Knowledge of different cloud (AWS) services, from network, instances, databases, logging and monitoring. Knowledge about principles of container orchestration platforms (docker, kubernetes). Worked with Infrastructure as Code like Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloudformation and CI/CD Tools such as Gitlab, GitHub or others
- Database Skills: Having outstanding knowledge about different databases and different approaches to how they work: SQL, Document based DBs, Distributed Databases, Big Data Analytics Databases, etc. For example: Mysql, Postgresql, Mongodb, Dynamodb, Elastic, Druid and others.
- Basic Project Management: Aligning People to reach goals - planning, monitoring progress, helping overcome blockers, manage dependencies.
- Soft Skills: Team Player, Solution-Oriented (Problem-Solver). Motivating Developers about why they do certain things. Giving proper and clear feedback that is understandable and actionable.
- Mindset: Goal driven, following the 80-20 approach, Interested in Business results, Understanding that tech enables the business to grow. Interested in new technologies, being able to adapt to different environments and situations.
About The Company
applike group is the leading company building in the app economy. Based in Hamburg/Germany, our technologies & businesses cover the full value chain of the mobile apps market.
Our companies work independently but benefit from each others’ technologies and knowledge.
We have set up 5 companies (JustDice, adjoe, Sunday, justtrack, Tabbler) under one roof of applike group.
justDice is responsible for building the world’s largest rewarded mobile gaming experiences. As market-leader in this genre, our goal is to ultimately create the best rewarded games.
adjoe’s ad format generates higher ad revenues than any other solution. adjoe’s UA platform provides quality traffic on scale, leveraging our growing SDK network.
Sunday creates and publishes extremely engaging and addictive mobile games with smart and player-friendly monetisation.
justtrack is our unique answer to optimizing and automating your entire mobile app growth strategy – all on one platform.
Tabbler builds highly engaging mobile games (iOS and Android) for leading consumer brands. End-to-end, from the development to the game’s production to the actual distribution to millions of users in a given region.
These 5 companies receive best in class business support from applike's central service teams: Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, Office Management and Internal IT.
We are 100 percent tech company where everybody is interested in computer science. We are always giving our best to keep in touch with the newest technology to build the most relevant products. Our mission is to build software with the capability to distribute ads to every mobile device on earth.
We're always looking for new colleagues. Come join us if you're ambitious, smart, kind and want to grow professionally while having a lot of fun. :)
