Engineering Tech Lead in ROMANIA

Do you want to enjoy the benefits of working fully remotely while growing your leadership skills?

Do you have a track record of leading complex software projects to successful launch?

Do you have at least 8 years of experience of full stack software development?

Do you believe that technology can make a real difference in regulated industries?

Does leading an international team of professionals to create software solutions for the leading healthcare organizations in the US market sound like something you’d like to have in your portfolio?

If all of your answers were “Yes” - you’re exactly who we’re looking for!

• It's a mix of management skills and tech knowledge, that allows mature engineers to grow their understanding of how to build a new product that fits the customers' needs while also leading a tech team;
• You will lead a global team and drive projects to the finish line through creative problem-solving. As part of our team, you will lead our team members from around the world. Reliability is our core priority, so we expect you to communicate honestly and set good expectations while trying to solve health-tech problems;
• At Vitamin Software, we craft software for healthcare organizations, healthcare administration and top hospitals. We address real-world business issues, improving workflows and patient outcomes with our tech solutions.

Responsibilities

An Engineering Tech Lead will split their day working with our customers, our Project Managers (that are in charge of the relationship with each customer), and our technical team. They will:

● Assist Project Managers in customer-facing discussions by giving informed technical opinions and highlighting the risks and benefits of various solutions;

● Collect non-functional requirements from the customer's Engineering team;

● Liaise with the customers' Engineering team on dependencies;

● Revise the architecture for new and existing software modules;

● Communicate the technical vision to the rest of the team;

● Lay the foundations for new solutions (create the skeleton for the app, bootstrap new solutions from scratch, setup CI/CD, set up the linter, etc);

● Coordinate execution of approved projects by spec-ing tasks, sequencing them appropriately;

● Lead a team of software engineers in implementing new features along with unit and integration tests;

● Help grow our team by performing mandatory code reviews, pair programming with team members;

● Evangelize clean code and best practices inside the team, e.g. provide time estimates, secure coding, critical thinking, etc.

Prior Experience

● 8 years of software engineering experience, ideally full-stack with 2+ years in a leadership or mentoring role.

● 3 years of recent frontend or full-stack engineering using React. Experience with React Native is a plus;

● 2 years of backend experience in any backend stack. NestJS experience is a plus;

● 2 years of experience with refining user stories and providing estimates for them;

● 2 years of experience with technical leadership: leading software engineering teams, creating technical plans and tasks for other team members, ensuring software is implemented and delivered as specified;

● Prior experience with building features for enterprise projects/systems;

● Fluent with Git (we are power users of Github);

● Familiarity with a cloud provider like GCP / AWS / Azure;

● You have worked in a team with a formal planning methodology (Scrum or similar) for 3+ years.

Also...

● You enjoy shipping new features every day;

● You are fluent in English (B2/C1);

● It's easy to interact with you: you speak your mind, and you communicate clearly;

● You ask questions to clarify the requirements;

● You are from Romania.

What is the recruiting process?

• Step 1: HR discussion — 45 minutes - 1 hour;
• Step 2: Technical discussion — 60 minutes - 90 minutes;
• Step 3: Meet & greet the CEO — 20 minutes;
• Step 4: Offer discussion — 30 mins.