About Heureka

We are Heureka Group, the largest e-commerce platform operating in nine markets of Central and Eastern Europe. More than 20 million users come to us for shopping advice every month, and we are among the top comparators and shopping advisors in all the countries where we operate. We purposefully maintain the atmosphere of a startup, even though we have been creating a product that makes shopping easier for almost everyone in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for several years already.

More About Your Team

You will build and lead a small development team of 2-3 Engineers. You will cooperate with Scrum Master, Product Manager, UX and BI specialists, and other team stakeholders daily. The team works hybrid - 3 days in the office. 

Your team is responsible for User Advisory & Communication area. The first mission - User Advisory - is about creating the best possible Inspirational, Advisory pages, and Q&A section in order to advise customers during the purchase process on Heureka. The second mission - Communication - is about building strong Communication channels (Mail and Push notifications) for our B2C users.

What you will do?

Your time as a team lead will be divided into three areas:

• Leadership & People management

• Engineering

• Product

Initially, you'll focus heavily on development while leading the team. As the team grows, your role will increasingly involve leadership and team development. Engineering (coding, tech. discovery, setting right engineering processes) will take the most of your time. Thus we are looking for a Leader with a strong passion for Engineering.

Leadership activities include, for example:

• Leading an empowered team of 2-3 Engineers. You will be helping them grow and develop themselves. Our Career Journey framework will guide your way in this area.

• You will be part of the so-called Team Lead Circle.

• Closely cooperating with Tech Heads, Team Leads, Tech Leads and Product Managers of other teams.

• Together with the Product Manager, Scrum-Master and other Stakeholders, you will be coming up with the Team Goals and taking responsibility for the delivery.

• You will be responsible for the hiring process of your team.

• You are the team budget owner.

 The team’s technology stack 

We are looking for a full-stack developer or someone with significant expertise in either backend or frontend development.

Backend

• PHP 8.1/8.2

• Slim Framework

• CloudSQL for MySQL

• REST API

Frontend

• Typescript

• Remix framework

• ReactJS

• Internal React UI Library

Ops and others

• Event-driven architecture

• DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)

• Monitoring (Grafana)

What do we expect from you?

• You have experience in leading software engineering teams - officially or unofficially.

• Still actively participating in software development, Scrum or Kanban are not dirty words for you.

• You act as an egoless leader.

• You understand the basics of Situational Leadership and know how to use it.

• You are not afraid to speak in English even though you are not a native speaker.

What can you expect from us?

• Full support of your leader including individual sessions.

• Buddy for the trial period.

• Improvement days - 10% of your time for personal development.

• Possibility to choose a mentor.

What’s it like to be a Heurician in R&D?

• Be part of a distributed engineering teams.

• Meet with Microservice/ Micro Frontend architecture, GCP, Asynchronous communication.

• Write tests - E2E, unit tests.

• Contribute to DevOps/FinOps culture.

• Participate in building a sustainable product.

• Working mostly on Greenfield projects.

• We are practically agile, typically using some version of Scrum (two weeks sprints, standups, planning, retrospective, grooming) or Kanban.

• Working in an environment that utilizes OKR framework.

And why you would love to be a Heurecian

• Opportunity to participate in the development of a product that is currently used by three million unique users per month in two countries. There will be unique technical challenges that you just can't get anywhere else. Opportunity to be part of One Platform vision

• Great company culture and open mindset

• Daily feedback

• Opportunity to learn a lot from the huge shared know-how we have in Heureka

• Support you in improving your skills

• Organized hackathons

• Free working hours, working from home, and a lot of other benefits, like referral bonus, yearly bonuses depending on the performance of the company, multisport benefit card, extra days of vacation, cafeteria, meal vouchers, etc.…