Tech Lead (Frontend)

About Piktochart

Our mission is to provide a design tool that’s both intuitive and indispensable. Whether you’re a marketer, teacher, or part of an internal communications team, we’re directing Piktochart to be laser-focused on what’s best for you and your goals.

No complex design software. No heavy designer fees. Just a simple, intuitive tool that helps you tell your story with the visual impact it deserves.

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Position

• Mentor and grow the team members to be both technically strong and culturally aligned
• Recruit talents who are excited and motivated about our mission and share our values
• Bi-weekly 1:1s and feedback to ensure the well-being of the team as well as their deliverables
• Evaluate the performance of the team
• Work with CTO to execute technical vision to support company goals
• Help the team to understand the business impact and value of their work
• Help the team with estimation, planning and communication with stakeholders
• Keep the team aware of major technical designs and decisions
• Keep up with industry trends that can be leveraged for business impact
• Improve code quality and robustness 
• Institute best practices and proper coding standards across the team through processes like code review, pair programming etc.
• Work with the team to solve technical debt and issues
• Work with the team to improve observability of the system (monitoring, alerting, dashboards)
• Collaborate with other leads on improving the process and implement best practices (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, retrospectives)
• Ensure proper documentation of the front-end codebase to ease onboarding and knowledge transfer between developers

Your qualification

• 5+ years front end development experience with Javascript / HTML / SCSS
• History of mentoring and developing others
• Able to work in a distributed team environment
• You understand that behind any technical decision there is a business need to be fulfilled
• You think critically about your work and ask questions in order to improve the product
• You have built products and UI using modern web technologies and can point to your prior work
• You have the ability to understand the business impact of team’s decision and then rally the team to execute on them 
• You have strong communication skills and are able to explain complex technical topics to the entire team in a clear and concise way
• You love front end technologies but also eager and able to dig into other areas of the product when needed 
• You are focused on developing and growing the people to excel in their role.
• A strong desire to continuously improve
• You care about the code you leave behind