Tech Team Lead

Summary

Join Volkswagen Group Services' Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain as a Team Lead. This role involves leading and mentoring a software development team, ensuring project success, and fostering a collaborative environment. Responsibilities include performance reviews, hiring, onboarding, and removing team blockers. You will work closely with design, frontend, backend, and testing teams using Agile methodologies and best practices. The ideal candidate possesses a strong software engineering background, team leadership experience, and expertise in Java, Spring, AWS, and Azure. Volkswagen offers fully remote work, professional development opportunities, flexible hours, and a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• BA Degree in Computer Sciences (or FP) and/or professional experience in Software
• Software engineering background
• At least 4 years of experience, with a minimum of 2 years as Team Lead and experience doing product manager role
• Good management skills and team spirit
• Experience with Java and Spring ecosystem, Spring boot, go or another languages
• Experience with testing tools like: Jest, Cypress, Testing library
• Experience with AWS; AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation Service, AWS Cloudwatch Service, AWS DynamoDB Service, AWS VPC (Amazon Virtual Private)
• Experience with REST APIs
• Experience with Azure Cloud
• DevOps knowledge (Kubernetes, Azure DevOps)
• Fluent English and/or Spanish speaker
• Fluent German speaker (must)

Responsibilities

• Running 1:1s listening to the team, giving them your support and going with them in their professional and personal development
• Delivering fair performance reviews in order to build trust and motivate your team
• Hiring the best talent for your team
• Onboarding process into the team and Offboarding of the team if it is necessary to another
• To anticipate, identify and eliminate blockers in the team
• Product owners & Delivery managers Best Friend
• Oil for the team
• Ensure Guidelines, Best Practices and Architecture
• Delivery Advocate & Enabler
• Responsible of sharing the knowledge and the team agreements between the team
• You will work on a day-to-day basis with our design, frontend, backend and testing team to build a scalable and solid product
• Working using best practices (testing, code reviews, DDD, CI/CD, clean cose...) and Agile methodologies
• Collaborate in the design of the cluster architecture
• Create of new automated tests/alerts
• Analysis of new functionalities/system improvements
• Dev ops: Pipeline's maintenance, creation // Deployment configuration maintenance, creation

Benefits

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed
• Access to professional development tools and free language courses
• Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs
• A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts