Technical Lead (Frontend Team)

Line manager

Operation Director.

About the team

• The team is international — 150 people globally, 70 people in Tallinn from 15 countries: Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Shri Lanka, Turkey, etc. 60 % of the office is Russian-speaking. However, B2+ English is a must-have to participate in calls with the UK office / VP of Engineering.
• Most of the developers in the company are full-stack.
• There is a separate QA team and Delivery team (2 DevOps + 2 Security Engineers + QA Automation + core Architect).
• Every product team has a PO, QA plus several full-stack developers. The processes are Agile.
• Office located in Aiandi tn 13, 12918, Tallinn.
• Flexible remote working conditions. The employees may choose whether to work from home or office.

The role

• They are currently working on a lot of different interesting projects, one of the biggest ones being the implementation of support for Micro-Apps / Micro-Frontends Architecture to split their frontend into smaller parts.
• At this stage, their frontend framework is operating a hybrid model in order to be able to support both AngularJS and Angular components, and they are in the middle of migrating it to the latest version of Angular.
• Working as part of the core team will provide you with the perfect opportunity to showcase and sharpen your skills in front-end development.
• You are excited at the prospect of contributing to the growth of a fast-paced tech company, and you won’t settle for mediocrity anywhere along the way.
• You don’t sit around and wait to be told what to do.
• You take the initiative and find creative ways to get work done.
• You’re a great team player.
• You’re open-minded, committed to the success of all your colleagues, and you are a positive person to be around.
• You put the customer at the heart of your work and strive to create an exceptional customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Fulfilling tech lead duties in a team of 4 (with possibility of team's expansion).
• Helping to establish their front-end team's vision and long-term plans and look after their accomplishments.
• Playing a key role in setting up quarter objectives.
• Helping to find ways how to evolve technical processes and code quality within the team.
• Working as part of the core team responsible for designing and maintaining multiple platforms/frameworks, as well as core packages/components on which main parts of the Linnworks product are built on.
• Participate in all kinds of frontend activities in order to increase the stability and reliability of our platforms.
• Participate in frontend framework developments.
• Implement reusable UI components and core libraries.
• Assisting other teams with choosing appropriate solutions and architecture for the frontend part of the application.
• Practicing continuous delivery; shipping MVPs fast for user feedback; releasing early and often with refactoring as required.

Requirements

• 5+ years in Software Development with a focus on Frontend.
• Expert level HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6), and TypeScript.
• Team or Tech Lead experience, interest in mentoring.
• Experience with frameworks such as Angular (preferred), Vue or React.
• Strong understanding of how to build a responsive web design.
• Understanding how to make a testable product and keep testing coverage high for critical places.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good level of English, written and spoken.
• English B2.

Nice to have:

• Experience in mobile development.
• AngularJS background.
• Familiarity with migration problems from AngularJS to Angular.
• Experience in building a Micro-Frontend Architecture.
• Back-end coding in any OOP language (such as C#, Java, etc).
• Participation in complex Enterprise Architectures (microservices, container-based, event-driven, multi-threading, high load).
• Experience with any Cloud Platform (such as AWS, Azure, etc).

Company offers

• Interesting projects.
• Young, friendly, and versatile team.
• Hybrid working model.
• Competitive salary.
• An option of flexible working hours.
• You get 5 full weeks of holidays per year.
• Learning opportunities (conferences, books, courses).
• A cozy office where you can work and relax (playroom with foosball, table tennis, and sofas, pull-up bar, office library, chess board).
• Coffee, fruits, yogurts.
• Quarterly corporate events and regular team building activities.
• Sports activities compensation.
• Relocation assistance provided.

Hiring process

• Introduction call with Operation Director — 30 min.
• Technical interview №1 with Tallinn team (Developer+Architect) to check skills in Frontend development.
• Technical interview №2 to check ideas about architecture definition and team formations.

Useful links

• Website: link.