Backend Technical Lead

Let's build the future together!

Ikue is a tech start-up with a clear purpose and vision - to provide
telecommunications operators with a superior product to deliver superior
customer experiences.

We know that Customer data is at the heart of hyper personalisation and are
looking for the brightest, most inspiring engineers to deliver our product which
enables data to drive every decision, every communication, and every
customer interaction.

We are building a diverse team, all unified by a desire to unleash the data needed
by marketeers. Creativity is at the core of Ikue and is something we are looking to
further strengthen in 2022! There are no typical profiles, each and every team
member shares our vision and wants to be part of its success.

As the Technical Lead at Ikue you will:

As a Technical Lead, you’ll be responsible for providing technical and team leadership to a small team of developers, as well as getting hands on with design development to ensure successful delivery of projects while meeting deadlines and achieving desired business outcomes.

Working in an Agile scrum environment and supported by a Technical Business Analyst and Project Manager, you will guide projects from conception to completion, giving direction on timelines, objectives, and outcomes, while providing mentorship, coaching, development and motivation to the team.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Lead and provides feedback on the work of junior developers.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Takes complex features from concept to execution.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

You will be rewarded with:

• You will become part of an international environment that embraces diversity and professionalism
• A dynamic and motivated team, with a good sense of humour
• Freedom to take responsibility, grow within the team and ALSO
• Working in a fast-forward company
• Remote work model

Requirements:

You are a confident self-starter, committed to delivering technically excellent
code, and looks for innovative approaches to challenges.

• Experienced in creating applications in the architecture of microservices (API gateway, Kafka)
• Several years of professional experience in software development with Java
• Experienced handling of existing frameworks (Spring Boot, Apache Commons etc.)
• Good knowledge of web service standards (REST, JSON etc.)
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) processes and tools- nice to have
• Experienced with AWS Cloud Services
• Experienced with containerised app development
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)

We value your personality and passion! For us, personality and passion come
before education. Your difference is your strength, and you will always be
supported and looked after by your Ikue family. You will take responsibility for
your own work, and a choice to work in the office or remotely.

If this sounds like you, then you know what to do

We look forward to receiving your application. Good luck from your future
colleagues

By supercharging the ability to leverage data and advanced analytics in marketing
messages, your work will be truly impactful from the very start.