Position: Frontend Team Lead
Company: Remotal
Experience required: 2y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Acquisition Squad

The Company is a community-driven online resale site for luxury fashion items such as dresses, jewelry, handbags, etc.
It was founded in 2009, and now federates a community of 10 million members in 50 countries across the world. They currently have about 500 employees in total.
The company is headquartered in Paris, with other offices in Berlin, New York, Hong Kong, and Tourcoing (France),

The Product:
Users are mostly (but not only) young women who wish to clear, renew or constitute their wardrobe at a discounted price and acquire luxury and trendy fashion items in an environmentally sustainable manner.
The product is a platform where individuals can put their used luxury and fashion items up for sale and buy from other users, with streamlined process and logistics, as well as stringent third-party quality control.

The Stack:
• ReactJS, Angular, TypeScript
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• Kibana

What you’ll do:
• You’ll build great features and products with a clean code in friendly collaboration.
• You’ll own Vestiaire Collective technical strategy. Therefore, you’ll acquire a strong knowledge of our technical platform to keep an excellent performance, quality, and security on your dedicated scope.
• As a privileged and qualitative speaker for both product and your squad, you’ll proactively evaluate technical feasibility, participate in functional projects definition and be able to suggest technical solutions to complex situations.
• You’ll work in an agile environment and ensure that you and your squad are fully supporting the Scrum methodology.
• You’ll challenge our current stack in order to upgrade our platform.
• You’ll share your experience and skills with junior developers to make them grow.
This is a long-term placement, where based on your performance you may be offered to take on more responsibilities such as engineering manager roles. Relocation and transfer of the contract to the client are also open options after the first 6 months.

The Tech Team:
Spotify-like team structure with Tribes (eg: Operations), subdivided into feature teams called Squads (eg: Warehouse), and transverse chapters (eg: Mobile). The typical squad is composed of backend developers, mobile developers (iOS, Android), frontend developers, a Product Manager, and a QA tester.


Requirements:
• You have at least 2 years experience as a Technical Leader or in a Technical Manager position.
• You can lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions.
• You can analyze the big picture, implement and prove your solution is great.
• You do not need to be micromanaged; to accomplish team and company goals, you can wear multiple 
• You have a strong business sensitivity and understand the importance of delivering values to the end-users.
• Problem solver with great communication skills, a positive attitude, a team spirit, and empathy.


Why you should join:
You will join a very successful business that scales fast, which generates challenges and opportunities.
The team is truly international (40+ nationalities), open and diverse.
The work organization in tech is efficient, with state-of-the-art tools, a clear definition of roles and QAs integrated into the squads.
After six months at least of successful collaboration, and if it is something you're interested in, you will be offered administratively and financially sponsored relocation to Paris, Berlin, or Tourcoing to physically join the team.

Good to know:
• 20 days of paid holidays per year.
• 10 days of paid sick leave per year.
• Working hours between 9 am and 7 pm Paris time. At least 1h lunch break. A schedule can be flexible in agreement with the team.
• You are expected to work with your own laptop.