Tech Lead

The Role

We focus on building 7 high-potential startups at a time. On each of our startups, we have a dedicated team that is led by a Tech Lead, a Product Manager, and a Design Lead. Our teams are small and effective and range from 5 to 15 people.

We are searching for a Tech Lead to be the engineering leader of one of our teams owning the technical buildout of the startup. This role requires a combination of strong technical and leadership capabilities. You’ll be responsible for managing an engineering team (usually a team of 3-7 engineers), owning the software architecture and infrastructure, engaging with the business to understand the product needs, and overseeing the technical direction and delivery.

You’ll get support and guidance from our CTO and will also be part of our Engineering Leads Council where we consult large technical challenges and tech-related decisions that shape the startups we build.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Work closely with the Product Manager and Design Lead to lead the project and help the startup achieve its goals through the product we are building

Engineering

• Select and update technologies that are most appropriate for the needs of the startup while remaining in line with our standards
• Own the process of setting up and maintaining the hosting infrastructure to handle the scaling needs of the startup and configure the relevant environments
• Architect deployments and CI/CD pipelines
• Oversee the overall software architecture

Team

• Manage the engineering team on the startup and oversee the quality of their output
• Create and maintain a fun and challenging environment where your engineers are motivated, engaged, growing, and working together in a collaborative way
• Be a hands-on contributor on the project, developing features together with the team

Process

• Assist the Product Manager in discovery refinement, ensuring that epics and user stories in the roadmap are refined, estimated, and prioritized in line with business goals

Skills & Requirements

• Good level of English
• Experience building web applications using Typescript, React, Node.js, and GraphQL
• Experience architecting software (for projects from scratch is a plus)
• Experience setting up and maintaining hosting infrastructure
• Good business thinking (working at an early-stage startup is a plus)
• Ability to make product decisions based on the value it provides to the startup and its users
• Strong leadership capabilities
• Great communication skills

Tech Stack

General
• Node.js
• Typescript
• Turborepo

Frontend
• React + Next.js
• GraphQL: Apollo Client
• tRPC + React Query
• Material UI

Backend
• GraphQL: Apollo Server + Nexus
• tRPC
• Prisma

Tests
• Cypress
• Playwright
• Jest

Mobile
• React Native

DevOps
• GitHub & GitHub Actions
• Google Cloud Platform
• Docker

‍If you are an experienced engineering leader without prior experience with our tech stack, we are open to creating a path for you to first learn our stack before becoming a Tech Lead on one of our projects.

Our Projects

We’ve built over 40 successful products. Here are a few from our portfolio:

• PlexTrac
• Crave
• Vette
• Plotify

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working environment
• 25 vacation days + 1 birthday day off + 1 additional day for every year working with OAK’S LAB (capped at 30 days)
• Top-of-the-line MacBook and hardware budget
• Budget to spend on your growth (books, courses, conferences)
• Free English lessons
• Opportunity for a bonus gained from investments in our startup partners
• Team bonding, happy hours, online games, annual offsite trips
• Outside of work activity clubs (yoga, traveling, football, tennis, etc.)
• Snacks and drinks in the office, weekly pizza, monthly breakfast
• Landmark office right on Old Town Square (dog-friendly)
• Open to freelance cooperation (ICO)