Technical Lead Engineering

Job description

Our R&D team gathers ~100 engineers divided into ~15 product and technical squads. Each product squad includes developers, product managers and designers. They are paramount to 360Learning’s response to our increasingly demanding customers and are strategic players for the growth of the company. Today, we need someone to drive the Technical vision and coach the other developers in the Analytics Squad. We created the Tech Lead role to help developers with the technical aspects of their jobs, such as coding and planning, and coordinate the delivery timeline with Product Managers and Product Designers. As a Technical Lead you will: be the point of contact for all technical topics from the squad (you can then redirect to another member of the squad) be the coach for the other developers of the squad (do Performance reviews and Career Path assessments) keep coding since management will take ~20% of your time participate in monthly meetings altogether with CTO and Engineering Director to celebrate successes and discuss technical or organizational challenges You will report directly to the VP Engineering & Engineering Director Within 1 month you will: Discover 360Learning, its platform, its teams and its culture Become familiar with how our R&D way of working Understand the team's processes Within 3 months you will: Support your product squad: each squad has clear goals for innovation (e.g. driving users to create more courses), while also maintaining and improving product features and codebase that fall under its scope Follow and coach the software engineers of your squad Start identifying our developers' key strengths and areas of improvement to help them grow Solve proactively challenges the developers are facing Lead Performance Reviews and Career Path assessments calibration Work with the CPTO and the Engineering Director on maintaining your squad’s engagement Within 6 months you will: Share your best practices within the team Create your own courses on the 360Learning platform Suggest and implement process improvements in the squad Maintain a good team spirit, for instance by organizing team-building activities (sync or async) Ensure your team is able to ship valuable features, while maintaining the timing and the quality Work with the product manager to define the product vision and set the technical direction for that part of our platform Join cross-team i…