We're looking for a Technical Lead to join our Engineering team working remotely from anywhere in Spain or in a hybrid capacity from our Madrid office should this suit you.
About carwow
Buying or selling a car shouldn’t be difficult! That’s why here at carwow we are on a mission to change the way people buy, sell or use a car by creating the world’s best online car marketplace. We're not all petrolheads - just a highly driven (excuse the pun) scale-up with over 300 carwowers in the UK, Germany, Spain and Portugal .
Since starting our journey in 2011, we’ve grown to become one of the most trusted comparison sites with over 12 million users and we're proud to be backed by some of Europe’s most respected technology, marketplace and automotive investors.
About the role
This year we plan to add 5 new squads to our product organisation as we continue to build on our customer proposition and to support this growth and help us scale we need experienced senior engineers and technical leads.
A technical lead at carwow is the lead engineer on a cross-functional product team of product managers, engineers, designers and data analysts. They play a key role in shaping the technical delivery of a product team by helping set up team OKR's that align with business objectives alongside product managers, scoping and helping the team break down strategic objectives into tactical work, ensuring technology architecture and principles alignment within the team, and coaching the team alongside engineering managers to deliver great customer experiences.
Core
- Play the technical lead role within a cross-functional squad of developers, product managers, data analysts and designers
- Discuss insights on how customers use our product and make suggestions for how we can constantly improve the user experience and grow the customer base
- Lead the team in scoping how new features can be built, and how customer needs can be met while making pragmatic technical trade-offs
- Write maintainable and performant code, with tests and documentation
- Collaborate with your team on getting things done - review code and help out with constructive feedback
- Monitor and support your team's software in production.
Strategic
- Define a roadmap of experiments and initiatives to grow the paying customer base of carwow alongside a product manager
- Contribute your expert opinion on the scope and feasibility of the initiatives your team considers
- Help shape the technical strategy for our approach to experimentation in the product
- Be a good strategic delegator, understanding when to delegate tasks to the team and when to take ownership.
Tactical
- Contribute to a diverse engineering culture based on customer-centricity, high-quality code, data-driven decisions, technical innovation and business impact
- Develop and test product improvements that build customer growth
- Collaborate with other technical leads and engineers inside and outside of the team, helping them to do their best work and deliver projects according to our values and brand
- Understand the important technical differentiating factors of our product, and leverage those in our architecture.