Tech Lead Developer

About Ecosia

Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, is one of the world's largest social businesses and the first B Corporation in Germany. As part of our mission to cultivate a more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable world, we want to reverse the tide of deforestation by planting a billion native trees. So far our 15 million users have planted over 100 million trees. Our reach is expanding as we continue to grow and plant trees worldwide!

Position

As a Tech Lead Developer (m/f/x) at Ecosia, you will do more than just coding. You will influence the technical direction of your team in close collaboration with the product manager and you will be contributing code as well. For example you may build new frontend features to optimize the engagement of our users or embrace the challenge to scale our backend systems across multiple regions.

What you’ll do

• Advocate for technical best practices whilst designing innovative, evolutionary architectures
• Contribute on software development of new features using a mix of Javascript/Vue.js, Golang or Python
• Utilize and help evolving the latest technology thinking from our tech radar
• Influence and drive decision making with a focus on value in collaboration with our product managers
• Grow, support and coach cross-functional teams in collaboration with our engineering managers

Your qualification

• You have min. 6 years hands-on full stack development experience: from front-end to infrastructure
• Passion for building clean, maintainable and scalable code
• Care for evolutionary design whilst developing a compelling technical vision and strategy
• A pragmatic attitude to drive to outcomes with a data-driven decision making approach
• Taking ownership and accountability of our technical solutions from ideation to maintenance
• Advocate for modern software development practices, Lean and Agile thinking
• Inspire an atmosphere of open feedback, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• You not only care about your work, but also about the people you’re doing it with
• You are a team player with clear and transparent communication and expectations
• You have respect for and share our core values and our love for trees
• You can speak and write English fluently (German not required)
• You are based in Berlin or willing to relocate

What we offer

• Relocation assistance and visa application support
• Learning days, Hackathons, offsite events, conference participation
• Outstanding flexibility in terms of working hours and location 
• Two ‘no-meeting’ days per week and open for periods of remote work
• 30 vacation days
• Shared incident management responsibilities with compensation, and time-off after incidents
• Subsidized public transport ticket, gym membership or your monthly green-electricity bill
• Additional perks include weekly team lunches, free vegetarian/vegan snacks, and drinks