Backend Team Lead

November 20

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komoot

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Mobile • Navigation • Android • Outdoor • Maps

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

Description

• About komoot • Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. • Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. • And we're good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. • Today, with over 40 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we are well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide. • Join our 100% remote team and start your adventure with komoot. • About the role • 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.

Requirements

• 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. • 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. • Not sure if you meet all requirements above? Don't sweat it – if you think you're the right person anyway, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy lovely outdoor experiences. • We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well. • You can work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, or anywhere else that lies in any time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3. • We have your costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work. • You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 20+ countries across Europe. • 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break. • We love seeing people grow. That's why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!