Position: Tech Lead
Company: OAK'S LAB
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**OUR STARTUPS**

We’ve taken part in building some amazing startups. Here are a few of them:

• Crave Delivery — www.cravedelivery.com
• LifeBrand — www.lifebrand.life
• West Tenth — www.westtenth.com

**THE ROLE**
Tech lead is a go-to technical person, designs systems, codes, coaches other engineers and focuses on technical leadership and support to its product peers.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
**Team:**
• Mentor an engineering team and help them prioritize, build, and ship the most impactful features.

**Engineering:**
• Writing testable, scalable and efficient code and leading code reviews.
• Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.
• Own the technical strategy: roadmap, documentation and technical backlog for a product area.
• Own the technical strategy, technical roadmap, documentation and technical backlog for a product area.
• Advocate for technical initiatives through the OOO Way to improve efficiency, scalability, and maintainability of the codebase.
• Work with product, UX and other disciplines to discover the best solutions for our products and ensure your team has a suitable strategy to serve and achieve its business objectives.

**Process:**
• Improve team performance by removing bottlenecks, minimizing waste, optimizing processes and reducing feedback loops.
• Work closely with the key stakeholders and product peers to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the engineering team.

**People:**
• Keep the morale of the team members high, ensure their happiness and engagement on the project.
• Identify the need to update the team structure or rotate the team members timely. 

**SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS**
• Great level of English (written and verbal)
• 6+ years of experience with engineering
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership position
• Experience in delivering projects from discovery to production
• Strong understanding of the JavaScript ecosystem (specifically React and Node.js)
• Good technical leadership capabilities
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Ability to balance ideal implementation with practical solutions considering time and resources
• Ability to empower others to be better engineers
• Team player & open-minded approach

**TECH STACK**
• Node.js (Apollo Server)
• Apollo Client
• React
• React Native
• GraphQL
• Typescript
• Github & Github Actions
• Prisma.io & Nexus
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
**
PERKS**
• Lavish company team building events
• Tasty snacks to munch on during work
• Ballin’ HQ right on Old Town Square
• Local beer on tap in the office
• Free English lessons
• Paid courses and tech conferences
• Freedom to travel and work
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Pizza every Friday
• Paid day off to celebrate your birthday
• Multisport card to access fitness and spa facilities
• MacBook Pro
.. and memorable nights with the OAK’S team in the best underground clubs of Prague