Tech Lead – Devops and Backend Services

About justDice

Founded in 2016, justDice is the market leader of play-and-earn mobile gaming experiences, proudly based in Hamburg, Germany. Over 200 million players in 100+ countries play our exciting games and apps built and maintained with technologies like React Native, Kotlin, Go, and Unity. Our vibrant team of over 30 professionals from 25 different nations lead the charge, and we've rewarded our players over $40 million to date!

What We Do: We're not just about building mobile apps but shaping the future of rewarded game experiences. What are honest rewarded games and apps, you say? Simple, users download and play our products to earn real cash prizes, gift cards, and vouchers for free – no catch.

Our Mission: It's straightforward. To ultimately build the best rewarded games experiences! Ready to shape the future of honest play-and-earn mobile gaming? Join us at justDice and grow in a collaborative culture, dive into new exciting projects, and utilise the latest tech while impacting the global mobile gaming community.

Position

A Tech lead bridges the gap between the Product Lead’s plans and the development itself. They’re capable of understanding business needs, being able to manage a Team of developers, collaborating with Product leads. An important aspect is that the Tech Lead helps to define ETAs and a plan together with the Product Leads to reach goals as soon as possible. On top of this the Tech Lead is responsible for finding a good balance between fast-paced development and stable, reliable and long-lasting software systems. The Tech Lead for Backend Services is a generalist, with profound knowledge in Backend Development together with management of infrastructure, but is capable of successfully touching new technologies quickly and is always keen to learn new approaches to build better software.

What you will do

• Technical mentorship: Provide technical mentorship to the Devops and Backend Development team. This includes guiding the team on the use of appropriate tools, technologies and best practices
• Code quality: Ensure that the code produced by the team is of high quality. This includes conducting code reviews, writing and enforcing coding standards, and using appropriate testing and validation techniques
• Design and Architecture: Ensure software and infrastructure meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc
• Being Hands on: Spend 20 – 30% of the time on developing features and setting up infrastructure
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product leads and principal engineers to ensure that the technical design aligns with the product requirements
• Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation within the team. This includes exploring new tools and technologies that could improve the development process, and promoting the use of best practices to achieve technical excellence
• Understand the vision of the organization along with planned development roadmaps and put in place a strategy to manage the technical infrastructure and support development efficiently

Your qualification

• Education: Completed apprenticeship in computer sciences or university degree in computer sciences, (electrical) engineering, mathematics or sciences
• Experience: Strong background in Infrastructure and Software Engineering with over 8 years experience developing and delivering high-quality software products across multiple technologies
• Domain Knowledge: knowledge of highly-scalable microservice backend developed in Go. Outstanding skills to build modern cloud infrastructure like AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Knowledge of different cloud (AWS) services, from network, instances, databases, logging and monitoring. Knowledge about principles of container orchestration platforms (docker, kubernetes). Worked with Infrastructure as Code like Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloudformation and CI/CD Tools such as Gitlab, GitHub or others
• Database Skills: Having outstanding knowledge about different databases and different approaches to how they work: SQL, Document based DBs, Distributed Databases, Big Data Analytics Databases, etc. For example: Mysql, Postgresql, Mongodb, Dynamodb, Elastic, Druid and others
• Basic Project Management: Aligning People to reach goals – planning, monitoring progress, helping overcome blockers, manage dependencies
• Soft Skills: Team Player, Solution-Oriented (Problem-Solver). Motivating Developers about why they do certain things. Giving proper and clear feedback that is understandable and actionable
• Mindset: Goal driven, following the 80-20 approach, Interested in Business results, Understanding that tech enables the business to grow. Interested in new technologies, being able to adapt to different environments and situations

Additional details

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We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.