Our client, a company that offers high-value IT services for their retail divisions while always considering the latest technological developments, is looking for an enthusiastic Technical Lead. The role involves coordinating a team whose mission is to develop a cloud computing platform that will initially launch on the European market, with expansion plans for the global market as well.

Responsibilities:

• Make modern and future-oriented technology choices when creating new applications and providing APIs.
• Further develop and optimize existing applications and architectures and ensure quality assurance.
• Plan and implement new features and connect interfaces and databases.
• Support our internal business partners with technical consulting.
• Contribute to all aspects of software development, driving your product from idea to successful go-live.
• Manage the solution design and new implementations (configuration and development) related to the Product Information Management domain.
• Collaborate with Product owners to develop the product strategy and plan its technical implementation.
• Solve complex problems with creative solutions and state-of-the-art technologies.
• Work closely with Architects/Solution experts, POs, and Development teams to provide solution and effort estimation.
• Implement safe, extensively tested code.
• Be responsible for the development stack and set the technical direction.
• Moderate architecture reviews and ensure high software quality.
• Analyze and provide input for fixing issues/bugs.
• Develop best practices and establish them in the team. Provide input for refactoring and improving the quality of existing code.
• Engage and work with all involved stakeholders – internal and external (POs, dev teams, testing teams, operations, infrastructure, business).
• Support testing for existing and new solutions/implementations.
• Identify risks and constraints and proactively mitigate them.
• Support progress tracking for various stages of projects and adapt to difficult situations.
• Communicate and engage vendors for new requirements or issues.
• Coordinate development team members, assign tasks, and delegate.
• Support monitoring team capacity and priorities.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of core development experience in Java/Kotlin/Go.
• Experience in object-oriented modeling and software design.
• Passion and enthusiasm for new technologies, such as topics related to software development, Kubernetes, and cloud backends.
• Extensive knowledge of programming using Go will be impressive (nice to have); any other programming language like Kotlin may be an advantage.
• High own demand on code quality, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Service-Oriented Architecture REST.
• Hands-on experience with developing REST APIs.
• Knowledge in handling cloud technologies (e.g., dockers, Kubernetes).
• Open-minded and a fast learner.
• Experienced in technical leading (be able to manage multiple streams in parallel) – projects and initiatives (integration, transformation, upgrade) and capacity planning.
• Experienced in end-to-end delivery of solutions.
• Experienced in Enterprise architecture.
• Proactive and persistent.
• Good communicator, team player, smart worker, and adaptable to new environments easily and quickly.
• Able to work both within the team and independently.