Tech Lead

Covantis is an international commodities shipping platform created to modernize how post-trade execution processes are managed and to minimize operating risks while increasing market efficiency. The company is financed by the 6 largest global sellers of agricultural products (60% of the world market with total annual revenue of 339 billion US dollars. Founded in 2018. Headquarters in Geneva.

Team: Lead, 2 Front End Devs, 2 Back End Devs, 1 Manual QA, 1 Automation QA, Product Owner – (Scrum team)

Tasks:

• Working in close collaboration with product, engineering, and design partners to build customer-centric solutions
• Lead team's execution, the quality team produces, the speed and cadence of delivery, but most importantly, develop the team's culture, environment, and overall growth of the people
• Providing technical leadership to software engineers by coaching and mentoring throughout end-to-end software development, maintenance, and lifecycle to achieve project goals to the required level of quality
• Promoting team's engagement and motivation, driving team to reach operational excellence, sprint objectives, and release goals
• Providing hands-on technical and functional input to design, maintaining, building, integrating, and testing complex software components according to functional and technical design specifications
• Making sure that the team consistently ships high-quality code and architecture and contributes to the code reviews of the merge requests, and directly to the implementation of user stories and technical tasks
• Providing input to leadership regarding project viability and tech requirements and contributing to the tech definition and effort sizing of the new features assigned to the team
• Communicating with the lead architect, the head of engineering, and the other tech leads to contribute to the overall platform architecture and software factory organization
• Managing the engineers on the scrum team, developing their skills, and helping advance their careers

Important:

• 7+ years of experience with software development in a distributed, fast-paced environment, implementing full-cycle projects in cloud environments adhering to Agile and DevOps principles
• 1-2 years of experience as team lead – both leading development tasks and mentoring engineers
• Strong working knowledge of back end (REST, ORM, relational database implementation, microservices patterns, Node.js, Java, C#, or Golang experience)
• Experience with CI/CD setup

Will be in plus:

• Experience with blockchain technologies such as Ethereum
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS and Azure
• Excel developed microservice-based distributed systems with high availability, performance, and reliability
• Experience in tools & technologies: TypeScript, Redis, message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab pipelines, blockchain implementation (Ethereum)

Benefits:

• Vacation - 5 weeks
• Annual bonus based on performance - 10-15% of annual salary
• Healthcare – 20EUR net per month
• Lunch allowance – 5EUR net per day