Engineering Team Lead

About

Aircall is on a mission to revolutionize the business phone industry!

We exist to empower every professional to have richer conversations. We provide an entirely cloud-based voice solution, which seamlessly integrates with popular productivity and helpdesk tools. We have raised more than $220 million since 2015, and our base of 8000+ customers (and growing) is at our forefront.

Behind our product are the amazing teams driving it, split between Paris, New York, Sydney, Madrid, London, Berlin and remote locations. Despite our distance, we all work together to drive our product!

Job Description

Aircall is a place where voices are valued.

Backed by over $220 million of investment since 2015, we create technology that fuels accessible, transparent and collaborative communication to empower our base of 18,000+ customers (and growing) to make authentic, human connections.

Conversation is a cornerstone of our culture. Wherever our people find themselves in the Aircall world – Paris, New York, Sydney, Madrid, London, Berlin, or at home – everyone has a voice that is valued.

Whatever your background, wherever you’re from – we want you to join the conversation. Let’s talk.

We now are looking for enthusiastic folks who are ready to innovate and make an impact for the better.

We are looking for an engaged and passionate Team Leader to lead the new Auth Team that will be a Backend team that manages the login (SSO, SAML, MFA), manage autorization (roles, permissions), which means that you’ll be in the heart of our product.Note: this position is Remote Europe based

As a Team Lead, you will be responsible for the Authentication & Authorization team, a critical component of our product ; the  scope includes design, development, deployment and operation of critical features that add customer value on top of the security, maintaining the operational excellence and re-architecting our current system for better reliability, efficiency and quality.

This team will design, develop and operate a critical real-time, event-driven system on a cloud scalable architecture, based on serverless architecture, REST & GraphQL APIs. The platform is based on a micro-services  (AWS, Typescript).Best practices, evangelization, and mentoring in your team and across the whole of Engineering will be part of your day to day job. Quality, excellence, and agility drive our delivery processes and you will help us level these up being data driven with metrics, alarms and proper observability.

Your mission @ Aircall:

  • Together with PM, Architecture & Staff Engineers drive the design and iterative execution of the roadmap.
  • Together with PM & Engineering leadership, work on the cost/value estimation to define priority and sequence blocks in the roadmap.
  • Work with PMs to coordinate kickoffs, brainstorming, feature specifications and prototyping between designers and engineers to facilitate better collaboration and product development.
  • Promote a Devops mindset and ensure our teams are always architecting and building towards quality, continuous iteration and experimentation, efficiency and operational excellence as well as speed of launching to production.
  •  Ensure scrum ceremonies involve relevant stakeholders (especially from other Engineering areas and Product Management) and the team take actions after each ritual to improve its delivery.
  • Teach and mentor engineers in technical and non-technical growth and learning, setting up goals and monitoring their performance
  • Ensure code/design/architecture/knowledge sharing reviews happen on teams in a timely manner and that work follows established best practices and standards.
  • Coordinate with Engineering Leadership (meaning managers, Directors, CTO) to roll out engineering initiatives, as well as whenever cross-team work is necessary.
  • Be active in the technology community, positively contribute to Aircall’s reputation, and find great candidates to grow the team
  • A little more about you:

  • Must have 5+ years experience in Node.js, Typescript & microservices.
  •  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 10+ years experience in Software development, including minimum 3 years in similar team lead positions .
  • Solid experience in building & operating real-time, cloud based and scalable architecture (preferably AWS).
  • Good to have experience in Node.js, Experience with Typescript mandatory with a focus on delivering for security, scalability, availability, and performance.
  • Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs.
  • A track record of successfully leading, delivering, and evolving large technical projects.
  • Achieving results, solving difficult technical challenges and anticipating technical problems ahead of time.
  • The ability and proven desire to successfully collaborate and communicate across teams to drive technical projects to completion balancing goals between tech and product.
  • Success with mentoring, teaching, sponsoring, coaching, and collaborating with engineers.
  • Previous experience in project and delivery management within an agile organization with a DevOps culture, and familiarized with the usage of tools oriented to agile development.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, ownership and people management skills.
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
  • #LI-MC1

    We know that success comes from smart work and deserves to be recognized and rewarded

    We value people who are bold, ambitious, collaborative and customer-centric. We’re a global community growing together.

    If you love a good challenge, enjoy solving meaningful problems, and want to be a part of one of the fastest-growing B2B startups, then Aircall is the company you are looking for!

    Aircall offers a unique work environment and the chance to collaborate with diverse teammates across continents. We'll provide freedom and tools to allow you to thrive at your best, and foster an environment you can do it in.

    Why join us?

    🚀 Key moment to join Aircall in term of growth and opportunities

    💆‍♀️ Our people matter, work-life balance is important at Aircall

    📚 Fast-learning environment, entrepreneurial and strong team spirit

    🌍 45+ Nationalities: cosmopolite & multi-cultural mindset

    💶 Competitive salary package & benefits (health coverage, lunch, commute, sports)

    DE&I Statement: 

    At Aircall, we believe diversity, equity and inclusion, irrespective of origins, identity, background and orientations, are core to our Aircall journey. 

    We promote active inclusion to foster a strong sense of belonging which is one of our main strengths as a business. We strive to assemble diverse people that can enrich and learn from each other. We pledge to make sure everyone not only has a seat at the table but is valued at the table -- providing equal opportunities to develop and thrive.

    We will constantly challenge ourselves to make sure that we live up to our ambitions around diversity, equity and inclusion, and keep this conversation open because we realize that we have work to do and much to learn.

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    Additional Information

    • Contract Type: Full-Time
    • Location: Paris
    • Experience: > 5 years
    • Possible full remote