Holycode/Neon team are currently looking for an experienced Backend Team Lead to become a part of the team.
Join a highly dedicated and down-to-earth team of individuals with a ‘get-shit-done’ attitude and be ready to make an impact with them.
Neon is a young fintech start-up headquartered in Zurich. We are on the mission to disrupt the Swiss banking industry and the success speaks for itself: just one-year aftermarket launch, over 70'000 customers are already trusting our product and banking services.
Together with our strong investors and partners, we are dedicated to increasing neon’s customer base, continuously deliver compelling features, and become the number #1 bank account in Switzerland.
Challenging things you’ll work on:
- Lead the backend engineering team and work closely with other team members on further developing the leading Swiss banking app
- Work in an agile environment and further improve our development approaches (currently: Scrum & Kanban)
- Lead the solution discovery and architecture development together with the full software engineering team
- Actively support creating high-level concepts and realistic effort estimates
- Do code reviews, support the software development team during implementation with an active contribution to code if required and ensure unified development standards/lead or participate in software design reviews, code reviews, and risk analysis
- Coach and mentor the backend team hands-on and in dedicated sessions, 1:1 as well as in group settings
- Ensure continuous personal and professional growth of team members, give feedback, do performance reviews & jointly with the team members agree on their development agendas
- Our Tech Stack: Java 8, Spring Framework, Angular, REST Services, Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Ionic and Typescript.
Your contribution to the team includes:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering or a related field
- 6+ years’ working experience as a professional software developer
- Broad technical understanding and hands-on knowledge in at least 2 of the following technologies: Java, MySQL, AWS/ GCP
- 2+ years of experience in managing a team with a proven track record of mentoring and coaching team members
- Willingness to work flexibly, in an interdisciplinary and international environment, depending on the current project status
- Strong analytical skills and solution-oriented work style with a structured, independent approach to work and focus on getting things done
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adjust to the audience
- Stress-resistant, even in fast-paced and busy situations
- Fluency in English (German and other European languages are a plus) and willingness to travel when necessary
Why you will love working here:
- High-growth company in which you can find exciting and trend-setting challenges
- Friendly working atmosphere in an open-minded multinational team
- All necessary equipment – up to you to decide what you prefer
- Flexible hours and partly home office possible
- A budget for professional improvement (courses, conferences, books…)
- Budget for the mastery of the English language during the working hours
- Budget for the mastery of the German language after the working hours
- Nice office in Belgrade
- Fully stocked kitchen (tea, coffee, fruits, soft drinks, snacks…)
- Tournaments of table tennis, table soccer and darts in our office
- Skilled and senior co-workers
- Opportunities to learn and grow with us
If you are looking for an environment where you can grow professionally, learn from the best in the field, balance work and life habits and have a pleasant and enthusiastic environment, please submit your CV in English.
Deadline for applications: 21.11.2021.