Development Team Lead Prague, Praha

Development Team Lead

We are Heureka Group, the largest e-commerce platform operating in nine markets of Central and Eastern Europe. More than 20 million users come to us for advice every month, and we are among the top comparators and shopping advisors in all the countries where we operate.

What you will do:

You will build and lead a small development team of 3 engineers - helping them grow and develop themselves. You will cooperate with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, SEO, and Marketing specialists daily. The team works hybrid - 3 days in the office.

As the name suggests, the Traffic Acquisition team is responsible for Traffic Acquisition. Their main mission is pretty obvious then - to increase Heurekas most important channel - traffic. This can be done either through paid traffic or by improving SEO strategy. Traffic is king!

Your time as a team lead will be divided into three areas: leadership, coding and administration. Technical-related activities (coding, code-reviewing, ..) will take most of your time (60 - 70%). Thus we are looking for a guy/girl with a strong technical background.

Tech stack is:

• Python

• We have some microservices in Golang, but it doesnt matter if you dont know about it. We can teach you on that

• NoSQL database (such as MongoDB or Redis)

• GIT

• Knowledge of tools like: GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes and Grafana will help you

• We run most of the microservices in GCP

• What do we need help with:

• Design and development of tools for SEO and Performance Marketing department

• Maintenance of several microservices in Python and Go

• We handle everything ourselves - from designing the solution to deploying it to production - in the spirit of DevOps

• Responsibility for improving the SEO of Heureka

 What do we expect from you

• You have experience in leading software engineering teams

• Still actively participating in software development, Scrum or Kanban are not dirty words for you

• You act as an egoless leader

• You understand the basics of Situational Leadership and know how to use it

• You are not afraid to speak in English, even though you are not a native speaker

What you can expect from us

• Full support of your leader including individual sessions

• Buddy for trial period

• Responsibility for your Team budget

• Improvement days - 10% of your time for personal development

• Possibility to choose a mentor

What’s it like to be a Heurecian in R&D

• Be part of a distributed engineering teams

• Meet with Microservice/ Micro Frontend architecture, GCP, Asynchronous communication

• Write tests - E2E, unit tests

• Contribute to DevOps/FinOps culture

• Participate in building sustainable product

• Working mostly on Greenfield projects

• We are practically agile, typically using some version of Scrum (two weeks sprints, standups, planning, retrospective, groomings or Kanban and also OKR framework

And why you would love to be a Heurecian

• Opportunity to participate in the development of a product that is currently used by three million unique users per month in two countries. There will be unique technical challenges that you just cant get anywhere else. Opportunity to be part of One Platform vision

• Great company culture and open mindset

• Daily feedback

• Opportunity to learn a lot from the huge shared know-how we have in Heureka

• Support you in improving your skills

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