Tech Lead - Lockers Team

Who we are
Over the course of the past five years we have grown to a business of over 1500 Instaboxers united by a single purpose; providing the smoothest shipping experience known to man. Instabox is a tech/logistics scaleup that wants to change the logistics industry. We think it should be easy to shop online and offer our customers a fast and smooth shipping service - all in order to make everyday life easier. We allow our customers to shop from any of our e-commerce partners and pick up their products in one of our conveniently located Instaboxes. We’re fast, both in terms of parcel delivery and when it comes to growing our business.

As we expand our business we find ourselves in need of a highly skilled leader/developer who wants to take on the responsibility of Tech Lead for our lockers team. Since you are reading this we guess that you already knew that, let's get to the good part…

What you will be doing
In this role you will lead the team in charge of what is arguably our most significant product, namely our lockers. The team is responsible for all the software associated with the lockers and the cloud based backend systems they use. This ranges from scaling services in the cloud to mere demand from our ever-growing fleet of lockers, to designing robust systems ensuring those lockers work and updates flawlessly in the face of unreliable cellular connectivity and unexpected user behaviours. A fearless attitude towards taking on low level development for hardware as well as cloud scaling is ideal. You will be responsible for the technical delivery of the team, as well as coaching and mentoring the team members and onboarding new ones as we continue to grow. In other words, focus on tech, but regular team lead stuff but in a hyper growth environment and a product that is currently used by one in every ten Swedes.

You will get the opportunity to have a big impact on everything from choices of technology to system architecture. You will be working close to both our product and design departments, as well as other teams in our engineering domain, emphasizing the need for communicative skills as well as stakeholder management. However this is not strictly a strategic role, we expect you to get your hands dirty and code.

Who you are
We think that we have made it clear by now that we are looking for someone who gets excited about tech challenges, high and low, including leading others in designing and creating quality products and applications. We would also like to see a track record of at least 2 years in a leading role where you have developed products with focus on design, security, performance, testing and accessibility.

You are well versed with modern backend development. Hopefully in our main language, Javascript (Typescript, ES6, Node), or one of our other common languages Python or Go, or you are eager to learn! We think you also have good knowledge regarding code structure and best practices. Other things that are meriting would be thing like:

- Good understanding of RESTful APIs, Git, CI/CD, design tools
- Experience from building IoT solutions and large scale web services
- Additional experience with performance optimizations, cloud platforms etc.
- Experience working with agile methodology and processes - we know… we just had to write it… sorry...

We offer you - the chance to be part of something truly amazing. Our Tech domain is located at Medborgarplatsen and you will work closely with our other team leads who are all passionate about building and improving our products. We can promise you that you will be challenged, pushed to develop your skill set and have the opportunity to work with truly amazing and smart colleagues.

The journey ahead is what excites every Instaboxer working here today and we are just getting started. Then there is the compensation package, benefits, centrally located office etc. but we’ll get to that in due time.

If you’ve read this far there is clearly nothing stopping you from clicking the apply button. We look forward to meeting you.