Tech Lead

About Change

We believe that the world will fundamentally be a better place with everybody investing.

Our team is on a mission to remove the barriers and complexities to wealth creation through simple, affordable, and accessible investing.

Offering a unique opportunity to buy & sell Bitcoin commission-free and trade 20+ altcoins, stocks, commodities and indexes with the best rates in the market, Change is the top10 fintech apps in Northern Europe. And we’re growing. Fast.

Position

Tech Lead Role

We’re looking for a Tech Leader to lead our trading team. Working directly with the CTO you'll make significant contributions to the technical direction of our whole product. Your role will be a mixture of team leading, architecture, infrastructure design, hands-on coding, and driving technical innovation across Change.

You will thrive if you’re passionate about automation, finding the smartest solutions and solving real world problems for real people. You’re great in grasping the big picture but also don’t mind getting your hands dirty when it comes to coding. Importantly you believe in empowered leadership - that’s the only way we roll.

What’s in it for you:

• Bleeding edge tech. AWS, Flutter and more 
• Join as an early team member of already scaling FinTech
• Directly impact our customers and business goals
• Hire and lead a team of outstanding engineers
• Solve complex technical challenges 
• Have complete autonomy

What will you do:

• You will be responsible for the development of our trading product 
• Lead both in-house and external engineers. Take part in hiring and coach and motivate your team members to be the best
• Ensure that the system architecture evolves to meet its changing needs & environment
• Establish and maintain the coding culture
• Work closely with product managers, business and support team. Translate business and product requirements into technical specs and plan work
• Take full ownership of releasing and testing the systems you own
• Monitor and track systems uptime, task success, security and code quality that’s under your ownership
• Support Change’s technical direction and initiatives around tooling, technical debt, security etc.

Your qualification

• 5+ years experience building JVM application, Java, Spring Boot, SQL, Postgres SQL, Gradle
• 2+ years experience in leading modern tech teams
• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies and Microservices architecture
• Good grasp of SOLID and clean code principles
• Kafka / ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ or other synchronous message queues systems
• Domain knowledge of complex instruments like CFD / Stocks / Crypto
• Drive, sense of urgency and perfect match to our values

Will be a plus

• AWS ecosystem
• Knowledge of MT5/MT4
• Docker, ECS fargate

What we offer

• Stock package as you’re early to join
• Competitive salary, health insurance, pension fund and other perks
• An ambitious team of 21 nationalities
• Flexible work from home policy
• 3 extra paid vacation days
• New Macbook Pro and Apple equipment
• Sports compensation of €100 quarterly
• Personal development budget €500 annually
• Free book ordering and office library
• Beautiful office in city center with huge roof terrace
• Office snacks, full fridge and everything we need to keep going
• Monthly team events, summer and winter retreat, and many more (depending on Covid requirements)
• Relocation and residence permit support