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Are you a self starter who’s always eager to take on new challenges? Do you have a good taste for engineering design and can spot bad design from a mile away? Are you a natural leader? WATTx is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our ranks. As a part of Engineering Team, you will lead technical development of projects solving challenging industrial problems, working in cross functional teams in an agile environment.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:
-Leading day-to-day development -Technical design and implementation of the product -Planning and specifying the product roadmap -Close collaboration with the founders, engineers, researchers, venture developers and data scientists. -The engineering culture at WATTx has been shaped around principles of user-centric design and agile software development. We work in autonomous teams, value pragmatism over idealism, simplicity over complexity and technological agnosticism over fundamentalism, and are looking for people who share these values.
WHAT YOU NEED TO START YOUR MISSION:
-Extensive experience in designing complex software systems and knowledge about design patterns and antipatterns -At least 2 years of experience leading software engineering teams -Experience with agile project management methodologies, demonstrated by ability to select processes that work, based on current situation and not on dogma -Excellent people skills -Extensive experience with strongly typed programming languages, Golang being preferred -Extensive experience operating or designing distributed systems -Extensive experience working on real-time data processing, knowledge of -InfluxDB or VoltDB is a plus -Experience with Docker or similar containerization technology -Experience performing code reviews and pair-programming with other software engineers -Experience with Kubernetes -DevOps skills
WHAT WE OFFER:
-A competitive compensation package -Diverse environment to learn and thrive in -Monthly hackathons -Ownership over your projects and an empowered working environment -Guidelines and training materials based on industry best practices and our experience -A generous learning budget for professional and personal development
ABOUT US
WATTx is a new kind of company builder focused on creating deep technologies in the industrial and consumer Internet of things. We are a full-stack team: hardware and software engineers, data scientists, user experience researchers and designers, venture developers, and strategists. Our cross-functional project teams take a user-centric approach to identifying opportunity areas in particular research areas that inform ideation sessions. Solutions that evolve from these sessions are quickly prototyped and vetted as pilots with clients, investors, and potential partners. Dedicated to lean development and a sprint spirit, we expect research kick-off to venture spin-out to take a matter of a few months.
What's next in music happens on SoundCloud first. As the worlds largest open audio platform, SoundCloud is powered by a connected community of creators, listeners and curators who share, discover and influence whats new, now and next in music and audio. We enrich people's lives through the shared love of sound and we are looking for a backend engineer to join our Search Team in Berlin.
As backend engineers at SoundCloud, we build the infrastructure for products that music listeners and creators love. Our work often involves large-scale distributed systems, parallel computing, and data science. We actively improve our tools and processes to support collaboration and productivity. We cultivate an environment where we can all learn and grow. For more,read about engineering at SoundCloud.
You have solid backend engineering skills and are motivated to work in these areas. You have experience with operations in a large production environment. You're proactive and have experience collaborating closely with other teams. You enjoy crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and are able to communicate them. You're an independent thinker, but thrive in a tight-knit team. You're committed to the products you work on.
If this describes you, we'd love to chat.
Prior experience with microservices, building infrastructure automation and continuous delivery are all highly valued. Go is the main language we use, so you are either already proficient in it or excited to learn. Experience in technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka, and data processing pipelines is a plus.
Diversity at SoundCloud:
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us build a social platform and global community where anyone can create, discover, and share sounds. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry, and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute.