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About Us & Our Culture

We, employees, need a much more engaging solution around our compensation, and that’s why Cobee was born. Since we created Cobee back in November 2018, our vision has been unwavering: to become the most desirable solution for employees to get compensated at work. As we fight for that vision, we truly believe that we can improve employees' overall well-being while making them feel more engaged with their companies. We began with a single benefit, and today we offer a diverse range of benefits in three countries, with a team of more than 140 talented people across the globe. We have raised more than €55 Million in venture capital funding backed by world-class investors, including a recent €40 Million Series B investment. While much has changed since our humble beginnings, we stay true to what we believe and to our culture:

• Humble Excellence: We are a team committed to excellence and delivering top-notch results. We make informed decisions and collaborate to succeed, while also approaching our endeavors with low ego and open-mindedness. We support our teammates and allow them to shine.

• Team Innovation: We are trailblazers, disrupting the status quo and creating something new. We embrace risk and challenge ourselves to think creatively, fostering teamwork and diversity to fuel our ideas. Everyone is encouraged to contribute and have a say in decision-making.

• Lean Ownership: Lean Ownership means owning our actions and outcomes, and proactively seeking ways to improve the company for the long haul. We prioritize and simplify to move quickly and work with full autonomy to be agile

About The Role

A Technical Lead represents the technology aspect of a product team, leading the technical direction, and guiding developers. Technical Leads have a large amount of technical experience working across multiple systems as well as great communication skills, and prioritization masteries. They have the architecture, platform vision, patterns and practices always in mind. 

Main challenges 

• Facilitate Agile.

• Team Work Guiding the product technical vision. 

• Planning and management of technical debt.

• Design and define SLAs, metrics & Observability in your services.

• Responsible for the team's productivity and collective impact. 

• Design processes to create an effective pipeline of work into the team.

• Knows how to break software features down into components that can be developed in parallel work by them and other engineers and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive feature launch.

• Understands how to make technical trade-offs between short-term vs. long-term technology needs combining in the emental flow of value and technical excellence in your team.

• Guide the team to deliver high-quality products

• Mentor and guide developers.

• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of our services so they always meet their SLAs.

• Working together with the Product and Design teams to build the best UX for our customer

Our daily stack is:

• Technical stack: TypeScript, Node.js,React, React Native, Auth0, MongoDB (Atlas).

• We add tests to everything. Also, we log what's going on internally using Sentry.

• We have our CI/CD with GitlabCI and we deploy several times each day.

• We log what's going on internally using Sentry.

• Code collaboration: GitHub, Gitlab, Docker, K8

• Project management and knowledge: JIRA, Notion.

• Communication: Slack, Meets

What we are looking for

• Outstanding software engineering skills.

• Product Engineer mindset.

• You can design and build stable and performant software, which is easy for others to contribute to, and is extend sible and maintainable.

• Experience in developing medium/large-scale web applications and distributed systems.

• Ability to work with uncertain requirements and to define and propose scoping, requirements, and development plans when necessary. Flexibility and adaptability upon changes. Knowledge of when to trade technical excellence for delivery.

• Adhere to standards and best practices.

• Inspires trust and Leading by exemplariness

• Learn from feedback and help others learn to write better applications.

• You’re passionate about what you do.

Hiring Process

1. Recruiter Screen: We would love to meet interested people and their motivations in a first 30 min call with one of the People team members.

2. Hiring Manager Interview: You will be invited to a first technical call to discuss your experience, and future ambitions, and also to talk more about the role and its challenges.

3. Technical Interview: To keep knowing your technical skills, we will organize an online code review with the team.

4. Team Interview: Finally, we will invite you to a chat with 2 team members to talk about the assignment and to work on an architectural challenge with the team.

Why should you join Cobee?

• Excellence - We are driven by building great and impactful solutions to change the employee benefits industry in the long run. In everything we do, we go for the excellence approach.

• Sustainable growth - We always keep a bootstrap mindset while we keep growing! We do this in a very sustainable way and with a lot of substance: growth and profitability are not a contradiction, and we love to find the right balance.

• Non-hierarchical innovators - We listen to everyone. No matter their position. We try to ensure that the people who implement are part of the decision-making.

• Flexible Benefits - Paid flexible benefits (meals, transportation, nurseries) with paid health insurance and a specific budget to spend in an annual budget for training.

• Estimate pay range for this role is 60.000€ to 80.000€ 

Cobee embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills.