Project Lead (m/w/d)

Job description

Software must fulfill its purpose as well as serve and inspire people. As Project Lead you are responsible for delivering—in terms of software—brilliantly simple results in time, scope and budget.

To master challenging software projects, you will have to enable your team of up to five software engineers through servant leadership, involve highly skilled experts (e.g., for UI/UX and QM/QA), take ownership, and work closely with end-users, customers and other stakeholders.

Our tech stack

We develop software projects on behalf of customers and do research and development for our own software products and services, both open source and commercial.
Here is a selection of technologies we work with and examples of software we build and run.

Tech Stack - Examples

• Frontend Technologies: Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, Sass
• Backend Technologies: Python, Java, Kotlin, C#, C++
• Mobile Applications: Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Ionic
• Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, Slack, Figma
• Database Development: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB
• Agile Software Development: SCRUM, Kanban, Lean

Target Platforms and Applications

• Applications: Enterprise Applications, Consumer Software, B2B/B2C & B2B2X
• Cloud Applications: AWS, OpenShift, Kubernetes
• Desktop Applications: Windows, MacOS, Linux
• Mobile Apps: iOS, Android

Of course, we don't expect you to have mastered all these technologies and frameworks. All you need is a passion for tech with the right potential and ambition: Seeking deep understanding in software engineering and working on meaningful applications. We will figure out the rest together. ;-)

Your key responsibilities

• Lead an in-house software development team of up to five teammates
  • Involve technical or business specialists (e.g., UI/UX design, QM/QA, strategy or technology) where useful and coordinate a cross-functional team
  • Be a servant leader to your team and promote the Yatta spirit: Enable, develop and form your team in accordance with our culture code, mission, vision and values
  • Maximize your project team’s output by enabling and developing your teammates and team
• Develop software products, systems and services with your team—and deliver high-quality results
  • Take ownership of your project team’s goals (e.g., for fulfilling all technical and business requirements) through thorough project management, planning and controlling
  • Deliver in time, scope and budget—and exceed your customer’s expectations
  • Be in charge of project revenues and budgets as well as the quality of results
• Become a software project wizard—and don’t rest, but evolve
  • Master your project management skills from team setup, organization and delivery to reports and controlling
  • Become a strategic technical advisor to your stakeholders and clients, and help create value
  • Serve and inspire end-users by building human-centric software, ideally at scale
• Contribute to the company-wide development of the entire Yatta team of teams
  • Promote and share positive results, but also knowledge and understanding
  • Connect with clients and stakeholders and create long-term value
  • Participate in training and development (Yatta Academy)
  • Recruitment, onboarding and offboarding in your own team
  • Evangelize and live our company culture

Your qualifications

Education & skills

• Degree in computer science with above average grades (preferably M.Sc., diploma or PhD) or similar qualification
• First leadership experience as part of an agile development team with two or more engineers
• Several years of experience in professional software engineering, preferably across the software lifecycle (i.e., from requirements engineering to software design, architecture, programming and implementation to deployment and operation)
• Solid understanding of software technologies and trends (e.g., tools, frameworks, libraries, programming languages and methods) including their limits and use cases, ideally for various target platforms, domains and applications (e.g., cloud, server, mobile, embedded)

Personality and way of working

• Strong team and leadership skills without hierarchical thinking
• Great conceptual and analytical understanding
• Fast comprehension of technical topics and empathy for human dynamics
• Ability to perform under high pressure; highly organized with a strong sense of ownership—and a pinch of idealism
• Good communication skills with high levels of German and English, both written and spoken
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with good judgment and appreciation for feedback to develop and grow
• An entrepreneurial mind with a hands-on attitude to achieve long-term quality results through short-term actions, ideally with a basic understanding of lean management—and human-centric software design.

Why us?

1. You share our vision. This is a good start to head for the same objectives and mission goals. It is of greatest importance to us to maximize positive impact on the world. In the end, this is the purpose of our company. And this is the reason for our work.

2. You share the same values. We love our culture code! You don’t have to have the same feeling right away. And you don’t have to be like that completely – none of us are. But we believe it’s better to be driven by shared values rather than by rules and titles. ;-)

3. You believe this is the very best (working) environment for you. At least for the foreseeable future. Like Akio Toyoda, we believe the key to making quality products is to develop quality people.

About us

Yatta is all about development and evolution. We started in Frankfurt and Kassel, Germany, as a developer tool company, transformed into a software vendor, and now provide streamlined digital services.