Tech Lead - Apps

About Trafilea

Trafilea is a dynamic and innovative Tech E-commerce Group that operates multiple direct-to-consumer brands in the intimate apparel and beauty sectors, with a focus on using data-driven strategies to scale their businesses. In addition to our products, we have our own online community dedicated to promoting body positivity. As a rapidly growing global player, Trafilea is committed to creating high-quality products and services that enhance the customer experience and drive long-term growth. At Trafilea, we foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. We believe in investing in our people and providing them with the support and development opportunities they need to grow both personally and professionally. With our remote-first approach, you'll have the freedom to work from anywhere in the world, surrounded by a diverse and talented team that spans the globe.

Mission

Talent with a proven ability to apply technical operational knowledge and skill to a range of unique business problems. Able to put in practice good coding standards and promote them within the team. Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work and general instructions on new assignments.

Requires broad perspective and ability to find new, less obvious solutions to problems. Requires highly specialized skills and knowledge to assist others in solving complex problems. Work regularly requires discretion and judgment.

Keywords:

• Guides and assists others

• Interested in continued learning

• Shares knowledge

• Drives standards, quality & processes

• Proposes architecture

• Participates in initiatives across teams

• Participates in hiring processes for her or other teams

General Accountabilities

• Planning, building, and testing new features.

• Encourage agile behavior within the team, being able to act as a Deputy Scrum Master.

• Write unit and integration tests to ensure features do not break.

• Create new and modify existing SQL schemas, stored procedures, and functions used in the database layer.

• Cooperate efficiently with QA Engineers.

• Participate in application design sessions with peer engineers and architects to develop the business and software specifications based on project needs.

• Propose solutions that address medium to complex problems.

• Take initiative to drive the technical design of the projects.

• Guide and assist junior and non-senior software engineers.

• Perform code reviews and promote good coding practices within the team.

• Assist in setting code review practices for the team.

• Investigate and analyze reported defects in a timely manner. Recommend and apply solutions including code changes, data updates or configuration modifications.

• Promote optimal user experience in all development.

• Suggests, presents and defends technical solutions for well-defined functional requirements.

• Consistent contributor to the team's technical efforts. Ability to lead or facilitate meetings, and network with peers in other departments.

Leadership related (standard):

• Select, interview, hire, and train the talents needed on time to anticipate growth with the help of the TA team when it comes to the infrastructure division.

• Guarantee that Infrastructure OKRs are in line with the division OKRs, unfolding the following for the Store Dev team.

• Partner with the Business Partner and L&D team to validate training & development needs for the Infrastructure team.

• Define position KPIs & track them, guaranteeing that the expectations for each contributor are fully met and providing feedback on time to the team.

Role-related Competencies & Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technical studies.

• +4 years of experience managing & developing tech teams.

• Proven hands-on experience with React Native, React, and native apps.

• Fluent English.

• Mastery of agile ceremonies (grooming, planning, dailies, retros, etc).

• Excellence in Software Development best practices (design and architecture patterns, strong orientation to testing)

• Good knowledge of AWS

Expected Outcomes 30/60/90 days

• Understand Trafilea's business as a boutique DTC Aggregator

• Analyze and gather insights on parts of the code that are not up to standards and present and execute a plan of improvement for them.

• Add to your ever-growing KPIs roster

• Include the KPIs that we follow for the Apps as a business

• Become a great team architect: gain knowledge through specific training in Kolbe and PDA for the assessment (TalentLMS)

• Be an active participant of squads/tribes having when it comes to Apps

• Envision how to improve team ceremonies and interaction with different areas, and propose those plans to the TM and POs for implementation

What we offer

• Collaborate with world-class talents in a data-driven, dynamic, energetic work environment.

• Opportunity to grow and develop both professionally and personally.

• Safe space to be who you truly are, with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Openness to new ideas and initiatives.

• Great benefits package including remote work, 15 working days of paid holidays, Learning subsidy, and more!

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