Senior Technical Team Lead, Exam.net

Summary

Exam.net is a leading online platform for digital exams in schools and universities worldwide.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Technical Team Lead to join a friendly and talented development team during a pivotal growth phase. Situated in central Gothenburg near Stenpiren, their hybrid workspace has the team working on-site three days a week out of five.

About the role

You will be leading a group of four developers, complemented by a small team of designers, QA specialists, support, sales and marketing professionals as well as a product manager. In line with Exam.net’s growth, you can play an important part for the company. Not only as a developer but also as a team lead with the ability to entice colleagues and communicate effectively within the team and with the product manager and other stakeholders. However, your experience as a hands-on developer is essential.

Responsibilities

• Being an integral part of the development team, solving interesting technical problems and building new features that contribute to the overall development of Exam.net.
• Hands-on web development – with the opportunity to lead the team at a later point, fostering an environment of efficiency and guiding everyone towards their professional goals through effective leadership and mentorship.
• Play a key role in adapting internal processes to improve efficiency and the overall developer experience.
• Shape future projects in collaboration with the product manager and the team. Work to strike the perfect balance between project scope and available resources.
• Explore technical solutions, consistently seeking ways to improve application architecture and overall setup.

The technology stack:

Exam.net uses various tools and technologies to build the application. While experience in all of them is not mandatory, they expect a willingness to learn and actively collaborate with the team to quickly become familiar with them.

• Laravel (a modern PHP framework)
• Vue.js
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Microsoft Azure (e.g. Containerised App Services, SQLServer and CDN services).
• Google Cloud Platform (mostly through a few smaller services using Firebase)
• Testing tools like Playwright, Vitest and Pest.
• GitHub
• OpenAI
• While an interest in computer security is beneficial, it's not a mandatory requirement for this position.

Profile

• At least 8 years of experience in building and delivering complex technical solutions.
• An openness to work over the whole stack
• Experience from working with identification of performance problems or improvement opportunities
• Ability to write and speak fluently in English

About Exam.net

Exam.net is a SaaS platform made by the company Teachiq (the inventors behind Kunskapsmatrisen).Thousands of schools all over the world already use Exam.net to conduct digital tests, both on-site and remotely. The Covid pandemic increased the already existing need for a digitalised product and led to schools taking even bigger steps in digitalisation. They have customers in approximately 100 countries and between 50,000 - 100,000 samples are written within the platform on a daily basis.

Exam.net was founded by teachers and the people who work here possess a classroom or product company background. They believe the teacher's job is important and want to make teachers successful educators and less administrators!