At Appfire, we believe that great work happens when people get to choose how they work. After 20 years of creating software that empowers teams to break silos and collaborate seamlessly, we've learned that one size does not fit all. That’s why at Appfire, you choose.
- Choose to work where you thrive: Whether from home, in one of our offices, or while exploring the world, you decide where you’re most productive. From hardware and software to access to two decades of collective wisdom on working effectively in a remote-first company, we’ve got you covered.
- Choose to balance your life without compromise: Plan your workday around your needs and what matters most to you. Enjoy flexible time off without the hassle of complicated approvals. From day one, we trust you to deliver quality work without sacrificing your personal life, hobbies, loved ones, and well-being.
- Choose to grow on your terms: Take charge of your professional growth with access to online learning platforms, facilitated training, leadership programs, and internal hackathons. Collaborate with a global team to gain fresh perspectives. When you're ready for a new challenge, our internal mobility program is here to support your journey.
- No one knows you better than you do. So join us and customize your experience. Choose how you want to work. Choose Appfire.
Job Purpose and Overview
Appfire is looking for a Technical Team Leader. If you:
- Have experience in mentoring and managing engineers;
- Like being hands-on and continue growing your software developer skills;
- Look for the dynamic environment when new opportunities appear regularly
then this role might be perfectly tailored to you!
You can become part of the team behind Agile Poker for Jira & Planning Poker - apps that make estimation a team play: choose estimation technique of your preference, invite colleagues, estimate and discuss, - everything inside Jira with teams all over the world. Our apps are used by thousands of users from various industries.
Our products are growing quickly as we are adding new features, improving users' experience, and improving core technology. Apart from estimation tools like Pokers, the team owns various apps and solutions in the Agile category - Agile Retrospectives, Toggl Integration for Jira, Issue Events: Google Calendar integration for Jira that we keep improving from a technical & product point of view. We’re looking for new colleagues who will help us with that mission.
What You Will Do
- Lead a team of experienced professionals (up to 8 people) in delivering the greatest customer value. You will be responsible for the developers' growth and management, which includes mentoring, performance, and salary reviews.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Manager, and UX Designers to shape the product’s future and minimize time to market for every product increment.
- Hands-on software development. Design, build, and maintain efficient and scalable React / Vue.js and Node.js applications using JavaScript / TypeScript and Google Cloud Platform services. You need the openness to use your experience and leverage other programming languages, frameworks, databases, etc. to make the products better for the users and more competitive on the market.
- Ensure the greatest quality of the product, the code, supporting processes & Agile practices (e.g. teach team through code reviews, improve test coverage, facilitate Scrum ceremonies).
- Introduce best coding practices and support the team in implementing new product features.
- Take ownership of technical improvements (refactoring, minimizing technical debt).