Tech Lead Backend (Remote from Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, France and Austria)

Overview

Tech Lead (Remote from Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, France and Austria) at Recare. Join to apply for this role.

About Recare

As one of Germany\’s leading HealthTech companies, we are transforming discharge management by making it technology-driven, patient-centered, and free of bureaucracy. In addition to our market-leading SaaS platform, we are developing AI solutions that radically simplify processes in clinics and for aftercare providers, relieve the burden on healthcare professionals, and put the focus back on patients. We currently connect over two-thirds of all German hospitals with more than 650 rehabilitation clinics, and over 25,000 care and homecare providers. With around 70 employees, we are continuing to grow and are looking for people with the right attitude who want to improve the healthcare system alongside us.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Drive architecture decisions, code quality, and engineering best practices.
• Team Leadership: Mentor and support existing and new engineers through regular feedback and guidance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product and design to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Project Delivery: Own the technical roadmap for your team and ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.

Technologies

• Golang: Our entire backend codebase is in Golang (and we love it!). It’s easy to learn, it’s strongly typed, the internal tooling is fantastic and it compiles fast.
• Postgres: We use Postgres for our databases and GORM to interface with it.
• Typescript: Our entire frontend codebase is in Typescript. We believe a strongly typed codebase solves a lot of problems preemptively. We also use ESLint and Prettier so most of the coding guidelines are automated.
• React: Our apps are client-side rendered SPAs with React, and we work almost exclusively with hooks.
• Apollo: a GraphQL proxy is used to handle the data fetching and caching on the client-side (Backend is still a REST API).
• HeroUI with Tailwind: Our design system; legacy is Material-UI and styled-components. Our designers work with Figma.
• CI/DevOps: We use CircleCI and GithubActions to run our unit and integration tests, visual regression tests (in-house), and automated code analysis (SonarCloud). They’re also used to deploy to our various environments.

Non-business tasks

• Continuously optimise the frontend/backend code to offer the best user experience.
• Analyze and optimise database slowdowns and issues.
• Automate the internationalisation processes.
• Build additional tooling (such as a visual regression tool to detect automatic changes in our product).
• Migrate tools (such as Storybook to Vite for faster local development).

Our philosophy is that developers are owners of the code they write until it goes to production. We rely on automated tests to ensure everything stays stable — the rule is that code could be deployed at any time; manual QA is only involved in new feature validation.

Qualifications

• We are looking for experienced developers. You have a CS degree or equivalent knowledge, and you have been coding full time professionally for 6+ years.
• We\\\’re looking for someone with production experience with React and/or Golang (or other C-family languages). You should be able to discuss some common performance pitfalls of either and suggest possible workarounds.
• You have proven experience (1-2+ years) managing a team of developers and you, as a tech lead, are expected to support and actively interact with the different members and foster a positive growth environment.
• You should highly value empathy and have pride in your ability to contribute to a happy, engaged and respectful work environment.
• You should be comfortable and excited to dive into more advanced topics, e.g. build pipelines, bundle analysis, caching mechanisms, rendering approaches, database optimisation, etc.
• Since we\\\’re a small team, we want to automate a lot. You should have experience with CI and testing frameworks.
• You want to become a technical owner of a part of our code base – we need people who are looking for responsibilities.
• You are proactive and proficient in the entire product development flow: asking questions, clarifying specs, raising doubts and engaging in meetings.
• Product and Engineering work in a fully remote setup where writing skills are more and more important, so written questions/requirements/docs are very valuable.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

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