Back-end/Full-stack Lead Engineer

Bookbot is a re-commerce platform where over 10 million books have already changed hands. Every day, we send around 25,000 books to new homes. We operate in 9 European markets (CZ, SK, AT, DE, SP, IT, FR, NL, BL).

We're looking for an experienced Lead Developer to manage and support our team focused on Customer experience. You will participate in creating a new functionality for the portal, including solution proposals, planning and code quality assurance. A technological growth and legacy code reduction will be your daily coffee. The Product owner of this team is Oskar Stierand.

• Development of a re-commerce portal. Code reviews and management of a team of 5 colleagues.
• Our current focus is a portal facelift and building a new design system library.
• Exploration has long been one of our themes - we want to help users find relevant books easily and efficiently.
• We're working a lot on gradually rewriting most of the portal to new technologies, improving CX. One such place is the shopping cart, which is due for major changes soon
• Of course, we are developing new features not only for the Czech Republic, but also for all new markets such as Spain, France or Italy.
• Our developers are not code monkeys - discussion is important to us. We are not afraid to rethink things and choose a different approach in the course of our work.
• We like to be proactive, so anything that strikes your book/programmer fancy, we'll be happy to do There are no limits :).

Tech Stack:

• Languages & Frameworks: Typescript + AdonisJS), MySQL, Redis, Manticore, Kafka.
• Infrastructure: We run everything on Kubernetes in AWS.
• Legacy parts of the system are technologically mixed (mainly PHP), but when we interfere with them, we gradually rewrite them into Typescript.

• You have extensive experience with: Typescript, Testing (minimum Unit tests), React + (or similar, can handle re-learning),
• You have led development teams and projects in the past.
• Fullstack: SQL, Framework: Adonis (can re-learn)
• Database: MySQL, Manticore (indexing for search), Redis
• A nice bonus is definitely knowledge of: Accessibility, Strapi (or other headless CMS), PHP (historical code sections) and AWS

• We run two-week sprints and review our backlog twice a week.
• Once a week we meet for Backend Tech and Frontend Tech meetings with rest of the devs. Every two weeks, we dive into technical discussions for new features.
• We're honest, direct, and like to laugh at even the most politically incorrect jokes.
• Our office is at Kolbenova metro station, and while you can work from home occasionally, Wednesdays are mandatory in-office days for the entire team.
• Our whole development team currently consists of 22 members (21 developers + CTO).
• We discuss technology challenges at tech meetups, and regularly hold evangelistic meetups on technology and programming approaches..

• Work with awesome people like our internal systems guru Simon, and CTO David.
• Listen to a podcast with David (CTO) & Simon to get an even better understanding of how our development team works and what we're currently tackling.
• We build everything in-house, meaning there's a wide variety of problems to solve and endless opportunities to learn and innovate.
• You'll see the results of your work immediately—when we rework or optimize a process, it typically has visible positive effects, not just on the website but also in the warehouse, shipping, customer support, or intake. If something goes wrong, you'll hear about it within minutes
• An amazing opportunity to have a significant impact on the future of Knihobot and to grow with us exponentially.
• Multisport card, employee discounts on buying and selling books, plus partner discounts.
• One extra week of vacation after one year of cooperation, two extra weeks after two years.
• Possibility to gain ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) and have a financial stake in the company's success.
• An informal environment and a pragmatic approach to getting things done.