Tech Lead (Backend focus)

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Role: Tech Lead👩🏻‍💻

Location: Remote or London (preferred). Must be UK tax-registered. 🌍

Schedule: Full-time, permanent, flex-working ⏰

NO OUTSOURCING, NO AGENCIES 

The company

Only 28% of online customers get support in their native language. This not only results in lost revenue for companies (estimated at around $50Billion globally) but is also contributing to global inequality.

At Algomo, we are building an AI platform that helps companies of any size fully automate their customer service in 100+ languages, easily and affordably.

🏆 We have developed a unique technology where a single AI is fluent in 109 languages.  

🌏  Our mission is to facilitate access to digital goods to anyone in the world, no matter what language they speak.

▶️ Here is a 2-minute video demonstrating how the technology works.

💸 Algomo was founded in February 2020, has a working MVP, and has recently secured its pre-seed round of $1.2M, including sponsored innovation grants from the UK and EU. We are already generating revenue and we are really close to going live.

📈 We are expanding the current team of 5, and are actively recruiting for at least 5 roles. 

🔥🛠 The market is hot and we got TONS to build! 

By joining us, you’ll be part of the founding team and will inevitably shape:

1. Our culture
2. Who we hire
3. Our design & engineering practices
4. The scope and focus of our product

The role

We are looking for an experienced, ambitious and skilled Tech Lead that will mostly focus on our backend services. You will be working directly with the founder(ex ML-Engineer), Data Scientist and two front-end Engineers

Leading the technical aspects of the business and product, you’ll see yourself growing alongside the business to eventually lead a larger technical team (with the prospect of becoming the CTO), but you’re understanding that, to begin with, it’ll be all hands-on.

You need to have a product mindset and be able to transform product requirements into tech deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Participate in our product development from ideation to deployment and support
• Own and lead the Agile rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retros) to help the team achieve its goals, provide product feedback and technical expertise
• Work closely with the technical CEO and to plan, implement, release and maintain new features and functionality in our chatbot admin platform.
• Leading the engineering side of our product roadmap 

Qualifications / Skills

Must-haves

• Track-record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies, have developed MVPs by yourself and led IT roadmaps.
• Good experience in Python, Node.js, Docker
• Working experience in DevOps, managing builds, building CI/CD pipelines and deployments. 
• Strong communication skills with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences
• Ideally some previous startup experience, and/or a range of experiences within larger companies
• (Obviously) working experience with Git.
• Solid Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment
• Experience designing, implementing and integrating RESTful APIs

Good to have

• Distributed computing
• Experience with ML and NLP
• Kubernetes

Our (Current) Tech Stack

• MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node)
• AWS
• Docker
• Tensorflow
• Gitlab (+ECR for CI/CD)
• Kubernetes
• FastAPI
• Websockets

Benefits

• Competitive Salary (60-100k pa)
• Meaningful Equity (1-2%)- everyone in the team owns part of the business  
• Flexible working hours - as long as the work gets done, we're happy. 
• Hybrid work  - we go to our office at Canary Wharf 2-3 times per week
• Flexible nomadship -  you can work for 3 months per year, from anywhere in the world
• 31 days of holiday per year (in total), with the possibility to swap bank holidays. 

Our recruitment process

We have a 4 stage interview process:

1. An informal 30-minute chat, to get to know each other.
2. A take-home test that should take around 3h max
3. A follow-up technical interview to discuss the solution with the team.
4. A behavioural interview to see if you fit our culture

Algomo is a diverse team and we promote equal opportunities in hiring