ustwo is currently hiring a Tech Principal to join their amazing team ustwo combines expertise in product and service development, ventures and gaming to make a meaningful impact on the challenges companies and individuals face in contemporary culture. About The Job
ustwo is looking for an experienced Tech Principal to support the delivery of our projects. This role can vary in the amount of hands-on development needed but will involve hands-on technical design and technical leadership of full-stack teams, with support extending to mobile teams, depending on the project.
As a Tech Principal at ustwo you will work in partnership with their Tech Director and other senior technical leaders to design and develop solutions that balance the needs of the clients with the evolution of the technical landscape.
You will be required to be hands-on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs, and be a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions, as well as contribute to shaping our engineering practice.
As a Principal, you will be one of the primary ustwo voices and interface points with clients, and they will look to you to create deep, effective partnerships with their clients and to define and deliver work that creates lasting value. Effective client communication, client management, and presentation skills are core requirements to be effective in this role.
Location
Their Portuguese team is dotted all around the region as this is currently a fully remote studio. However, a successful candidate would be based in Portugal.
How You'll Spend Your Time You'll work across the full breadth of their product and service portfolio; spanning from strategic discovery to full product delivery projects; pushing the boundaries and raising the bar within our technology team and all of ustwo.You'll design and deliver engaging workshops and technical solutions for our teams and clients.You'll work with a full cross-discipline team of delivery coaches, design/product leads, and other tech leaders to ensure we're building high-quality products as well as delivering projects on time and on budget.You'll flex between working across a few projects to being immersed on one project, prioritizing your time effectively.You will typically be the most senior technologist on a project, and will act as a point of escalation and decision-making for the team, as well as being the face of ustwo to the client and their senior stakeholders.You'll spend part of your time line managing other engineers - inspiring our technologists to uncover opportunities for them to develop their careers.You'll lead community initiatives within tech, nurturing a thriving, self-driving community as well as being a key external voice for ustwo where applicable.You'll be an active contributor to business development; helping identify and convert new opportunities and represent the company in pitches.You'll be comfortable working with varying degrees of ambiguity, and relish the idea of solving problems.You'll happily turn your hand to the highest value piece of work ahead of you, regardless of whose "lane" it's in.You'll be a deputy for our Tech Director and be a human voice for your community, representing all perspectives in your decision-making.What We're Looking For You have extensive professional development experience in building highly scalable and resilient web and/or mobile applications (typically 10+ years).You can lead on the frontend, backend, and infrastructure design and development.You're confident in communicating architectural and technical design to client stakeholders.You have experience with deploying, hosting, securing, monitoring, and scaling in the cloud.You have database and data modeling experience, and a solid understanding of the appropriate use cases for SQL / NoSQL datastores.You have experience with DevOps, setting up and working with CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.You have experience with automated testing techniques and tools.You have experience with API integration/testing/design/implementation.You understand software and architecture design patterns.You have experience in nurturing and growing an engineering team.You have experience working within and leading development teams in agile environments.What You're Like You are a hands-on, caring, resilient, patient, results-oriented, and humble person.You foster community and are interested in bringing people together.You're human and recognize the humanity in others.You want to make great products that affect real people's lives, at scale.You have a strong appetite to explore new technologies and share knowledge.You are a clear and confident communicator, both written and verbal.You are a team player and can work to deadlines and in a fast-paced environment.Lisbon Tech Principal salary band: €65,000 - €90,000 depending on experience
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