Engineering Lead – Search Backend (Golang)
We’re Kiwi.com, and we’ve redefined flight search forever. We hack the travel system so our customers can enjoy great savings and new ways to navigate the world. To ensure our search engine runs as smoothly as possible, we are looking forward to hiring the right talent for the role of Golang Engineering Lead.
- help your team consisting of 3 engineers both on-site & remote to grow their skills and experience while maintaining a strong relationship with them.
- ensure the high-quality of work – code reviews, clean code, and testing best practices.
- minimise technical debt, errors, outages and conduct risk management.
- contribute to product architecture and design technical solutions.
- help your team prioritise the incoming requests in coordination with Product Management, distributing work amongst team members and assuring that their tasks are well defined.
- actively cooperate with product management on agile processes and quarterly roadmap planning.
- share your technical expertise regularly.
- have experience with Golang as your primary programming language.
- are able to read and understand code written in Python.
- have at least 4 years of experience in software development.
- have some experience with mentoring, leading projects, and the team.
- have experience with running agile project management processes.
- are familiar with debugging and monitoring, containerization, testing, git, CI/CD, networking, and distributed systems.
- are a strong leader in both technical as well as organizational areas.
- have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- focus on proactivity, independence, & self-study.
- are good at methodological work & problem-solving.
- like to learn new things.
- enjoy cooperating with your colleagues (be it junior or senior one).
- have a strong sense for responsibility and ownership.
- make decisions about the code with product and business value in mind.
- The opportunity to join our Phantom Stock scheme.
- We give our employees the freedom to choose between the environment of work from home and our office in Prague, situated in the heart of the Karlin district with an in-house gym, sleeping spots, canteen, showers, chillout zones, and free refreshments.
- We enjoy benefits, such as meal vouchers, 25 days of paid vacation, Edenred, sick days, VIP Medical Care, Multisport card, Makro Cash & Carry Card, Employee Assistance Program, and career development framework.
- The latest version of Hardware – Mac or Windows based on your preferences.
- Unlimited contracts within a forward-thinking and ambitious company.
- Relocation package (including visa transfer support).
- Grow.Kiwi program which supports parents and keeps them engaged with the company.
- Dogs, kids, and parties are welcome in our offices.
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Interested? Join us and hack the traditional ways of travel!
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LocationPrague
TeamDevs
Employment typeFull-time
