Team Leader/Manager Java

Our client is one of the biggest international media corporation, based in USA, with office in the center of Warsaw. We are currently looking for: 

We offer:

• Challenging projects targeting large international communities, using modern development and deployment technologies;
• An Agile and growing team of software engineers creating products accessible everywhere;
• Great benefits package: private health care, fitness card, and lots of team building events;
• Competitive salary tailored to your skills and experience and plenty of opportunities for personal and career development;
• Brand new office located in the strict city center (2 mins walk from Metro Politechnika) with cool fun zones;
• Last, but not least, we do great stuff for the global brands.

Responsibilities:

• 50/50 Hands-on software development and team leadership/ management;
• Decomposition of user stories into technical tasks;
• Designing databases and providing expertise and guidance;
• Improving knowledge of key technical areas, including some of JVM Languages (Java, Scala), (D)VCS (git) and SQL/NOSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB);
• Defining and implementing processes related to the software development lifecycle, including style guidelines, code reviews, testing practices, build process, delivery and deployment;
• Guiding and mentoring engineers, estimating development tasks and writing code;
• Producing and maintaining technical documentation.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience plus a Master's degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent professional experience combined with a Bachelor"s degree;
• 2+ years of experience in leading and mentoring engineers in the daily operations of application development, deployment and support;
• Command of enterprise-scale design patterns;
• Ability to choose appropriate technologies and strategies;
• Expertise in the empirical analysis and optimization of algorithms;
• Agile Development and Product Management (e.g. Scrum, Lean, Kanban) methodologies and practices;
• Strong experience in designing databases and in implementing data driven systems;
• Understanding of trade-offs between traditional RDBMSs and NOSQL data stores;
• Expert knowledge of JSE 6+, OOP and design patterns;
• Working knowledge of various open source Java APIs (e.g. Apache Commons);
• Experience with various web servers (e.g. Apache HTTPd, NGINX, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss);
• High comfort in working with Unix/Linux environment and scripting languages;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Very good English language skills (verbal and written).