WHAT WOULD YOU BE IN CHARGE OF? 💼

As a Tech Lead, you have a technical leadership role. Your role is to make sure the engineering team delivers on the strategic roadmap defined by the CTO under his supervision.

WHAT WOULD YOUR MAIN MISSIONS BE? 🎯

• Individual contribution: Ensure the development of new functionalities and the maintenance of the existing codebase.
• Technical expertise: Provide insight and guidance to the team on all technological aspects. Conduct tech research, align choices, mentor team members etc. Currently the main area of focus is back-end development ; other potential areas include front-end and mobile app development, data engineering, security, devops, IoT etc.
• Project leadership: Lead specific projects, ensure timely delivery, maintain productivity and ambience, report efficiently. Assist the engineering team for optimal delivery of the roadmap.

Hiring you will allow the CTO to focus on the strategic, outward-facing management role in the tech team (the “what”), while you focus on the operational, inward-facing technical role (the “how”).

WHO ARE YOU? 👑

Skills:

We want to hire people who enrich the team as a whole, not just skill sets. This list is merely an indication, don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t tick all the boxes.

• You have a good experience (> 5 years) with Ruby on Rails on ambitious projects running in production
• You have mentoring experience with peers (> 1 year)
• Modern front-end dev experience is appreciated (React), as is experience with native apps and everything in between
• You have experience with the Shape Up methodology
• You understand the importance of product design, UX and UI
• You have perspective on technologies, patterns, standards, workflows, work methods and tools
• You have an engineer mindset, you embrace complexity and make smart decisions
• You understand the business side of things, you can balance execution and report efficiently
• You constantly learn autonomously on all of these subjects

No specific level of education is required. Speaking French isn’t necessary, but speaking fluent English is.

Qualities

• Seduced by the idea of coliving, and by Colonies’ vision and products. Convinced that technology is a central element of our mission
• Enthusiastic at the idea of taking on responsibilities for technical decisions in a context of high technical and human stakes
• Willing to dedicate time to sharing your knowledge with your colleagues and helping them grow
• Enthusiastic at the idea of working on a long-term physical project that actually improves people lives
• Autonomous, organized, able to communicate clearly
• Open to discussion, humble and source of proposals

HOW DO WE PROCEED? 🔎

1️⃣ Send over your CV or your LinkedIn profile, and write a text that explains:
📌 Who you are and what you’ve done
📌 Why you want this job
📌 What makes you different from other candidates.

2️⃣ If your profile fits, you’ll have a chat over the phone with one of us techies, for us to better understand who you are.

3️⃣ We’ll follow up with an at-home exercise which we’ll use as a base for a technical discussion with the tech team. We strive to make our tests relevant (no low-level algorithms or data structures, instead tasks that look like the work you would do with us).

4️⃣ If all goes well, you’ll have one more meeting with two members of other teams.

5️⃣ We’ll also have a quick chat with a few of your former coworkers, bosses or teachers.