At Ricardo, Tech Leads are accountable for bringing their teams from success to success. They are servant leaders whose purpose is to guide talented engineers through uncertainties, direct them, move them away from hazards, clear obstacles and ensure everyone in their team has maximum impact.

It’s a hybrid role that requires strong technology skills and leadership. They don’t have direct reports but constantly provide mentoring and feedback to their team members. They are recognized for their technical excellence, teamwork and flawless communication. They are relentless about improving productivity, applying standards and delivering value to our customers.

The Tech Lead team is composed of five engineers leading the product development efforts across the entire company. For this Tech Lead position, we’re looking for someone with a proven record as senior back end engineer.

We have a microservice architecture continuously deployed on Google Cloud Platform. Application engineers are developing in golang, java, node.js, swift, kotlin, python and rely on cloud native technologies to keep complexity low.

Role & Responsibilities

• Leading one or several teams of engineers to consistently deliver according to their roadmap
• Designing and reviewing technical solutions, as well as driving architecture definitions
• Ensuring compliance to internal standards and practices
• Developing solutions (design, code, tests, documentation) along with the team
• Mentoring and coaching of engineers
• Presenting the progress and goals of your team (or teams)
• Collaborating with product managers to set the direction and goals for your team (or teams)
• Contributing to the technical roadmap through architecture meetings, design documents

About you

• 5+ years of relevant engineering work experience
• Hands on experience with microservices
• You shipped several projects with dependencies between teams
• You have excellent coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns.
• You have a proven track record of building/leading a high-performing engineering team
• You worked well in a highly collaborative environment
• It’s not expected that a single candidate has expertise in all these areas. We’re looking for professional engineers, who can quickly learn and adapt as our systems and situation changes, rather than candidates with a rigid skill set

Benefits

• Strong engineering culture, empowerment and trust
• Working on a very popular product (90% recognition) in Switzerland
• Training and conference budget available for every Engineer
• Home office if requested
• Video games, table soccer, sports offering over lunch
• Fresh fruits, Free coffee
• Lunch tickets
• and much more…

Remote and on site interviews.