Jobs Ivano-Frankivsk, Tech Leadership

About the client:

Our customer is the European online car market, with over 30 million monthly users and a presence in 18 countries. As a Lead FullStack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of online car markets and enhancing the user experience for millions of car buyers and sellers.

Responsibilities:

• Developing fast, high-traffic public-facing websites
• Explore new technologies and help the team to use them
• Work using AI tools and apply them to the SDLC
• Following software development best practices while delivering the work
• Following testing principles while testing your own code to ensure production readiness
• Follow the philosophy of: you-build-it-you-run-it (be responsible for the SDLC processes) 

Requirements: 

• 5+ years developing reliable, highly available, and scalable software systems
• Strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns
• Firm grasp of clean code principles and coding standards
• Strong proficiency using AI tooling, such as ChatGPT/Codex, for rapid development

Experience integrating AI tooling into your development environment for streamlined usage

• Experience with AI Frameworks like Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, etc.
• Strong proficiency with backend development with Node.js
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript
• Strong proficiency with SQL& NoSQL datastores (GraphQL, Redis)
• Strong proficiency with frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Strong proficiency with component-based frameworks and SSR (Next.js/React or Vue.js) or Angular with the desire to learn React/ Vue.js.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining 3rd party content management systems
• Knowledge of modern cloud infrastructures and tools, such as AWS, Terraform, and Docker
• Experience with APIs and developing in a service-based application environment
• Experience building optimized UIs for performance
• Proficiency with version control systems such as Git
• Experience working within a formal CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting services like Datadog, Newrelic
• Solid approach to testing and ensuring quality of code, Unit testing, backend, and frontend

At least Upper-intermediate English level

• This role requires mandatory timezone coverage: work must align with the Toronto (ET) timezone for LATAM hours and 13:00–21:00 EET for EU hours approximately.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to join our team.

About the position

As a Technical Leader you will be the link between the Project Manager and the development team in Ukraine. While the project managers ensures that the project is running according to schedule and is following our internal gate-model, you will be responsible for ensuring that the optimal technical decisions are made in each project and for facilitating the work of the developers so they are kept on track and motivated in their work. Communication is a big part of the job in order to ensure that the customer’s needs are correctly communicated to the developers, and that progress in the development is communicated to the the Project Manager.

Required skills:

• Technical background, master's degree in Electronic Engineering (preferable) or Computer Science;
• Miltech background and experience (startups, commercial or volunteering, 3+ years), understanding and talking miltech terminology and language;
• Up to date in Miltech trands, following technology development;
• Strong analytical skills, ability to make a decision and take a responsibility;
• Good understanding of hardware and software development process/life-cycle;
• Good communication skills, reporting skills, ability to technically manage a team of HW and SW developers;
• Good project People management skills, ability to do a breakdown of major task to smaller jobsproject scope, estimate tasks, control tasks execution, help project manager to control overall project scope and budget, ability to identify scope changes;
• Good sense of quality, craftsmanship, good understanding and practical experience in debugging and troubleshooting, being always ready to carry on "last mile" of the task/job, be critical to himself/herself and to technical inputs by team/client, accepting and supporting startupers way making the products;
• At least perpre-intermediate level of written and spoken English.

About us and what we can offer:

• 24 working days of paid vacation;
• Paid sick leave;
• Complex lunches right in the office;
• Free English classes twice a week;
• Experienced colleagues willing to share knowledge;
• Regular performance and salary negotiations;
• Professional growth: variety of projects and technologies, mentoring;
• Corporate health insurance;
• Friendly atmosphere, concern for the comfort of specialists;
• Working trips to Denmark to exchange experience with colleagues (discussed individually);
• Ability to work in different projects, one or more at the same time;
• Easy rotation between projects;
• The office has a kitchen, shower, seating area;
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ONLY 1−2 interviews (online and/or office)

EKTOS is a dynamically developing company that works with many different clients from all over the world in such areas as healthcare, finance, transport, agriculture, navigation, travel, banking, and many others.

We develop in C / C ++ for various microcontrollers and processors with and without an operating system and create ready-made working prototypes of devices with our departments.

Working at EKTOS will allow you to see projects from both hardware and software sides and get a high level of skill. We care about creating an informal, safe, and open environment in our offices and we offer a competitive salary.