Technical Team Lead (Frontend)

About Housing Anywhere

We change the way people find accommodation around the world. Housing Anywhere is a housing platform where people can rent out rooms to international students. It originally started as a platform where outgoing exchange students can rent out their rooms when they go abroad. Incoming exchange students can rent these rooms. Nowadays, it's a global platform where demand & supply of rooms for international students meet each other.

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Position

A Team Lead will be leading one of our awesome feature teams (i.e. Listings, Search & Discovery, Bookings, etc) inside the Product Development division. As we have reached the scaleup phase at HousingAnywhere, our rapid growth has brought on new challenges. We are building new exciting features to improve our marketplace platform, and, at the same time, we are focused on the quality and scalability of our development infrastructure.
You have the opportunity to bring impact by working closely with one of our POs to solve interesting technical challenges with the support of your team. You are also expected to be accountable for the team delivery, and to be a mentor, a role model for the people reporting into you, of course you will also support, empower and guide them to move forward in our Career Ladder™ and achieve their career goals. You will also be responsible to help us scale the teams by hiring the missing software engineers in your team. At the same time you will be a champion of our engineering culture and will ensure that the technology vision and our principles are well understood and applied in your team.

And our stack? In the frontend we are React lovers. We use Redux, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, NodeJS and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database. We’re currently moving our backend to a service-oriented architecture (microservices). Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform. We've been using React, GraphQL and Golang in production environments since the early days. A few years ago we started using Kubernetes, and nowadays all our new services run in the cluster.

Your qualification

• Experience in leading and coaching an engineering team
• You’re a Javascript expert!
• Experience with React/Redux, Typescript & NodeJS is a strong asset
• Experience with test automation and you are interested in TDD best practices
• You have experience with online marketplaces, service providers and/or API development
• Have 10+ years of experience in web development. If you have less than 10 years of experience, we still want to hear from you!

Who you are

• A leader: you like being accountable for the whole team and you are capable to unleash a team potential by empowering and supporting team members
• A product-oriented person: you love developing products that help people and you’re driven by the impact you can make
• You believe in conceptual integrity of the codebase, that is, there are many possible architecture and patterns, but you ensure you understand what are the ones we have chosen and ensure they are applied in your team
• A team player. You understand your colleagues may have different opinions and you consider them to make our product better. You understand how to challenge ideas, disagree and still commit to team decisions
• A pragmatic and quality driven engineer. You believe in the importance of writing good unit, integration and E2E tests
• An advocate of clean and simple solutions. You always have intention, adaptability and scalability in mind
• A tech junkie! You are interested in new technologies and you constantly seek to improve personally

What we offer

• Get ready to make a real impact and hit the ground running with early responsibilities. You have the opportunity to take full ownership of your work and dare to do things differently
• Work with a crazy unconventional team! Think 90 people from 30 different nationalities. It’s like being on a round-the-world trip while you’re in the office
• Trainings, workshops, conferences, books
• Budget for Dutch or English classes to help you kick off your stay in the Netherlands, and help you immerse into the Dutch culture
• Work in the heart of Rotterdam in an office with an amazing view!
• Beers & Cheers! Get to know your colleagues over drinks while we celebrate our achievements every Friday
• Are you coming from abroad? No worries, we’ve got you covered!

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Housing Anywhere.