Tech Lead (f/m/d) - Customer Growth

The Decathlon Login and Identity teams are looking for Tech Leads to join us in our lovely new Amsterdam office - The Login team is the gateway to every customer user journey. Meanwhile the Identity team ensures our customer's presence and membership in the Decathlon ecosystem. As a Tech Lead, you will be working to ensure that we are providing a best-in-class user experience (as well as performance and security) to our customers. We are proudly a company with a positive impact (#Tech4Good).

Some past/upcoming projects include:

• (Login) Adding QR code based authentication to make it super easy and quick to login.
• (Login) Expanding the login systems to multi-tenancy to improve speed and availability.
• (Identity) Improve the knowledge we have about our customers (self-reporting data).
• (Identity) Work with marketing tech to make sure leads are converted into full Decathlon identity customers

About The Team/Tech:

• Based in France and the Netherlands.
• Tech Stack: GIT, Java (Spring/Springboot framework), Postgres, Kubernetes
• Team Comms: Slack 🎉

Your Responsibilities

• Work closely with your engineering and product managers to help develop a healthy, diverse, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company's values.
• Work with the Product Manager to carefully assess the technical feasibility of feature requests
• Identify ways to deliver complex technical projects in an iterative fashion (building POCs)
• Help in recruiting other new team members 🎉
• Support and mentor junior engineers.

What You Need to be Successful

• 6+ years experience as a software engineer.
• Understand the technical aspects of authentication and Token Management
• Good command of software development best practices (design patterns, testable code, BDD or TDD).
• Interest in cybersecurity, encryption, OWASP Top 10 etc.
• Proven experience as tech lead, and collaboration with Product, Security and Business.

Nice to Have

• Use the “Accelerate” principle to ensure responsibility and improve the performance of the delivery.
• Knowledge in OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container systems.
• Experience with observability setups (datadog etc).

What We Offer

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• A great office based in Amsterdam.
• Choice of laptop (Mac, Windows).
• Travel to other Decathlon offices across the world for fun and team building.
• Growth & Development Budget: Certification (AWS, GCP, etc.), Visit Conferences of your choice, Learning budget (Internal and external training).
• Ability to move laterally within the organization/company to other teams.
• Monthly bonuses

Our Commitment to Diversity

We recognize the value that diverse experiences and perspectives bring to our team. Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they meet a majority of the criteria. We encourage all potential candidates to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we're looking for. Everyone is welcome, and we prioritize creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.

DECATHLON DIGITAL CONTEXT

What if technology allowed us to push the boundaries and take sports experiences to new levels? That's exactly our goal at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of 5,000+ experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud, and cybersecurity, distributed across Paris, Lille, and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging tech innovation from design to value chain optimization, connected experiences and product second life.

Changing the game for good. We are in this for the love of sports. And like everything we love, we want it to last. That’s why we are embarking on a journey to create a more sustainable tech model, reducing our direct environmental impact while maintaining a safe, diverse, and inclusive space for all our people to learn and thrive together. Team up with us to design the digital future of sports.