Description
Join the financial revolution!
Are you passionate about finance and want to make a real change? Join Kreditech and our team of over 300 professionals and become part of a transforming industry. From engineering, to design, to analytics, and collections, we do things differently and we reward great ideas, team work and persistence.
As a valued member of a cross-functional agile team, you will focus on your team and the people in it, and we expect you to continue to build a great culture with diversity and quality as a principal values. You will act as a liaison between management and developers. This entails leading the project’s development across various technologies. Managing the successful project’s delivery will require you to plan, coordinate and lead activities across the full delivery life cycle. You will be challenged, integrating these technologies at light speed when guaranteed solutions don’t yet exist and it is your job to keep all the players coordinated and the product’s progress on track.
Your Role
- Continuously inspire and lead your team of 5-8 engineers;
- Maintain a cutting edge platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to pursue outstanding balances across a variety of products and markets;
- Own the responsibility of ensuring scalability of the platform and identifying and mitigating potential bottlenecks as well as helping to define action plans to remedy bugs or unexpected behavior for the platform;
- Keep state-of-the-art software and best engineering practices;
- Actively coach and guide your team in their professional development and growth;
- Take part in team meetings to provide your knowledge and insights where needed;
- Collaborate with Team Leads of other Kreditech platforms and departments, such as Product, Data Science, Site Reliability Engineering to ensure a high standard of quality and smooth operations;
- Work with the recruiting team to attract and retain high quality talent.
Your Profile
- University degree in Computer Science or relevant practical experience;
- 5+ years’ experience as a Team Leader and previous hands-on experience as a software engineer in an agile environment and in multiple programming languages;
- Proficient enough in one of our core technologies to provide meaningful guidance for the solutions design and implementation (Scala or Go);
- Practical experience and understanding of large-scale distributed systems as well as understanding both business and technology requirements;
- Highly technical and hands-on capable, not afraid of shaping the code and getting things done;
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to prioritize work efficiently, and good team orientation;
- Used to work in a multicultural environment.
What we offer
- Share knowledge and mix with some of the most talented and skilled engineers and researchers in the business from around the globe;
- Great atmosphere, collaborative environment, where you will get the chance to become involved in the data-driven culture and manage its quality;
- An awesome office in the heart of Hamburg with the best views from the city and plenty of things to do close to the office when you’re not at work;
- We also have the industry standard perks such as free drinks and basket fruit every day, fun room, great team events, etc.
How to apply
We accept applications exclusively through our recruiting platform, found under the ‘Apply Now’ link.
