Backend Team Lead (m/f/x)

At go-e, we have been pursuing the development of our vision with passion and strength from the very beginning. We are moving in an area that is characterized by breakthroughs and growth and that requires a lot of personal responsibility and creative solution finding. On our journey towards the energy transition, the mixture of innovation and security, regional and international, self-realization and professionalism is the ideal fuel for our mutual growth.

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to take over the Backend Team. You will be a player-coach. You will take high-level architectural and system design decisions as well as deep dive into code to help solve implementation problems.

The Backend Team is responsible for developing, maintaining, and operating services used to communicate with and processing data from our embedded devices.

Our existing codebase uses a mixture of Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript. The individual services are executed either as bare systemd services directly on Linux servers or deployed as containers either into a Docker runtime or even to a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster, where appropriate.

With your contribution, you will impact how people will charge their cars in the future. Come and join the team that is building the future of innovative charger solutions for e-mobility!

Your area of responsibility

• Collaborating with the product owner on planning the product roadmap
• Establishing a technical roadmap
• Aligning priorities and planning tasks with the project manager
• Handling maintenance of our existing codebase and cloud infrastructure
• Identifying problems and bottlenecks, whether they are related to processes, products or team members, and taking action to solve them
• Mentoring and supporting team members through team meetings and 1:1s
• Guiding the team whenever necessary on smooth technical implementation
• Designing and developing scalable backend services for web, embedded and mobile applications
• Help maintain our self-hosted Linux server infrastructure
• Participate in the full development life cycle, from design to implementation, quality assurance and maintenance
• Deploying services to physical servers as well as Kubernetes environments
• Collaborating with app and embedded developers to implement efficient and easy to use communication protocols
• Building and scaling the team by participating in recruitment and on-boarding
• Being hands-on with the product
  
  

It would be great if you have

• Solid experience in leading a team and coaching team members
• At least 5 years of experience developing backend applications
• Experience writing node.js and Go applications
• Experience with SQL database solutions like Postgres and time-series optimized databases like Clickhouse
• Familiarity with git-based repositories and CI/CD systems
• Familiarity with Gitlab and GitHub CI/CD
• Experience with docker and container management
• Exposure to Linux as a server operating system - you feel comfortable using a terminal and associated shell
• Experience (or interest) in maintaining highly available environments and architect new scalable tech stacks
• Understanding of costs and priorities in making assumptions and solutions
• Excited to work independently and take responsibility
• Eager to grow structures and processes in a company
• Able to communicate openly and in an effective manner
• Work-level proficiency in English
  
  

It would be even better if you have

• Experience in the field of EV charging solutions or physical products
• Experience managing a Kubernetes cluster
• Experience reading or writing C++ code
• Professional experience in both start-ups and grown-up companies
  
  

What we offer

• Be one of the key drivers of our core technologies
• A high degree of freedom in the execution of your projects
• Flexible working hours
• Mental well-being support
• Employee discounts on our products
• Corporate discounts on a variety of brands
  
  

About go-e

We are a fast-growing, successful company in the field of e-mobility and have developed from a start-up to an internationally recognized player. From our headquarters in Carinthia, Austria, we have already expanded to around 20 European countries. With bold ideas based on our passion for innovative e-mobility solutions, we are already establishing future technologies today.