Tech Lead

Job Description

Rail is set to dominate short and medium haul travel around the world. It’s faster, greener and more convenient than air travel, and it cuts down on the carbon emitting congestion of road travel. With the ongoing climate crisis it’s more important than ever to put this mode of transport at the forefront of people's minds. The trouble is, there’s been nothing modern about rail’s online customer experience… until now!

We are SilverRail, a global tech company delivering the digital infrastructure that opens up rail to the world. Our technology is powering rail and travel agencies across the globe, making it easy for people to choose rail and cut their carbon emissions.

We have been around for more than 12 years, with our teams now based globally from our bases in London, Boston, Brisbane and Stockholm. We believe in ‘fail-fast-fail-early’ to find innovative solutions to complex problems, and our agility and refreshingly novel approaches mean we have already developed into a force to be reckoned with.

But we have ambitions for so much more. With a raft of new clients joining us, and with our growth about to enter its prime, we aim to become the biggest player in the rail tech space.

The Role

As a Technical Lead, you are part of a scrum team building high availability services. You will be influencing and driving teams to delivering highly scalable applications, using your deep technical skills and hands-on experience. You will be working in a fast-paced, agile environment, identifying pragmatic solutions to complex problems.

You will be leading individuals and supporting them in their ongoing development of how they achieve their goals. Reporting to our Vice President of Engineering, you'll work alongside peers who'll have the same goal as you, which is the continued improvement and efficiency of our engineering practices. You'll facilitate growth and learning, knowing how to balance a hands-on or hands-off approach.

Key responsibilities

Your tasks will include, but not be limited to:

• Be a Team Manager for software developers, reporting to the VP of Engineering, supporting teams and individuals achieving their goals including performance management, proactive team planning and more.
• Working with fellow team members to write clean, maintainable, scalable and secure code while following best practices.
• Developing smooth onboarding and training for the members of your teams.
• Supporting the teams in cross-team collaboration and communication.
• Coaching teams and individuals on how to improve impact and delivery across the domain with a focus on stakeholder management and communication.
• Proactively identifying problems and working to resolve them in the fast-paced environment SilverRail provides.
• Continue to build on the great culture of dedication, collaboration, and caring for each other, while having fun!

Competence and skills

• 5+ years’ experience building products and applications using full stack technologies such as Java (Spring, Hibernate), JavaScript (React), API standards (REST, SOAP) and Databases (Postgres)
• Fluent in English and conversational level Swedish
• Working experience in a fast-growing organisation
• Experience leading, managing and mentoring teams
• The ability to work with ambiguity and flat hierarchy structures
• Experience working with cloud native technologies
• Experience of API design in service-based architectures
• Previous experience applying CI/CD in development practice
• Experience of AWS Kubernetes and Docker implementations is a plus.

Why us?

• We have an average Glassdoor grade of 4.7 and 100% recommendation rates.
• We are a globally accredited Great Place To Work
• We are an accredited flexible company and were named in Flexa’s Top 50 Most Flexible Companies
• We utilise a hybrid working model, providing equipment for home working so you can work 2-3 days per week at home and 2-3 days per week in our beautiful central Stockholm office.
• We are part of the Almega organisation offering a strong collective working agreement.
• We provide a wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be.
• Our team’s health and wellness is genuinely important to us, so we provide a generous annual Wellbeing Allowance for you to use.
• We are the fourth company in the world to become reproductively responsible, accredited by Hertility providing educational workshops around women’s health, family planning and fertility as well as progressive leave policies & hormone testing
• A unique opportunity to work for a tech company that is helping the environment by revolutionising the way we travel.

Our values are simple: Do Good by working for a better tomorrow; Think Big Act Smart by being curious, adaptable and data-driven; and remember that through collaboration we will always be Stronger Together.

*We are a neurodiverse employer and are working hard to improve our recruitment processes, so if there is any way that we can make the recruitment experience better for you then please let us know in your application - all information will be treated as strictly confidential*