Tech Lead
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Your mission as a Tech Lead at Upthrust
Your key mission: To manage a team of developers as a technical expert.
As a Tech Lead, you:
- Analyze our customers’ technical challenges and develop meaningful recommendations.
- Determine project requirements and develop work schedules for the team;
- Support and govern clean coding practices;
- Coach your colleagues and act as a sparring partner in their projects, support their growth, and flag problems when needed;
- Facilitate sprint planning, perform and challenge estimations , track daily progress and act on issues;
- Take responsibility for technical aspects of our projects;
- Find ways to solve or tackle key opportunities;
- Collaborate with multiple disciplines within the software development lifecycle (both within Customer Collective and within our clients’ organization).
About Upthrust and Customer Collective
The Upthrust Digital Product Studio's mission is to boost the business performance of our ambitious customers through relevant and valuable digital products and services.
For us, it is not about one-shots. We aim to structurally help our customers to become great “digital performers” throughout strategy, design & development 🚀
At Upthrust Digital Studio we:
- Stay on top of new developments and continuously fine-tune our processes & methodologies;
- Like to travel from bird-eye perspective to the tiniest detail and back;
- Are committed to contributing value to our clients’ strategic initiatives;
- Take ownership of our own careers, defining our personal objectives and development plans every 6 months;
- Work from wherever while meeting each other at least 1 day a week at the office;
- Truly connect with colleagues during office lunches, afterwork drinks, rooftop parties, squad dinners, team buildings and company events.
Customer Collective is an exciting and continuously changing ecosystem under which we host different brands, like Upthrust.
All our brands have only one purpose: to be a genuine home for experts in specific domains. In other words, to create an environment for like-minded people to enjoy work and further develop skills and talents.
The real power of Customer Collective lies in integrating our top talents and diversity in multidisciplinary teams, fit to tackle specific customers’ challenges. Together we always strive for premium quality and tangible business impact.
We challenge the status quo and continue to reinvent ourselves, expand our portfolio and grow both organically and through acquisitions.
As a Tech Lead, you can be part of this!
Hello, is it you we’re looking for?
- You combine 5-10 years of experience as a developer, and you can easily convince us that you have what it takes to be a successful lead;
- You take ownership and manage projects based on Agile principles, are committed to results (outcome vs. output) and value team play, help them grow and provide support where needed;
- Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch, both verbal and written;
- You manage the performance of our developers through prioritizing, managing and aligning work;
- You like to bring structure, and you have the ability to assess situations both from a bird-eye as well as an in-depth perspective;
- Strong background in coding, preferably PHP (Laravel, Symfony, …) and Javascript frameworks (Node, React, Next, …) with in-depth understanding of GIT principles;
- Setup and optimize CI/CD Pipelines, deployments and support DevOps.
- You care about your colleagues and provide support whenever needed 😁
Compensation & Benefits
- A competitive salary based on your skills & experience**;
- A company car or choose for the monthly mobility budget to finance your alternative mobility costs (think: electric bike, electric step, Poppy cars, Ubers,...) or to pay your monthly apartment rent or even your monthly housing mortgage! (conditions apply);
- Meal vouchers and net allowances;
- Mobile phone subscription with unlimited data;
- A MacBook and other tools for your work comfort;
- A Premium Spotify account for when you need some focus or an extra productivity boost;
- 26 vacation days per year;
- Flexible work hours;
- Hybrid work location (on-site/remote): 1 day a week we work together in the office in Antwerp;
- A quarterly bonus scheme linked to your success;
- A hospitalization insurance;
- A retirement saving plan;
- A Flex Income Plan where you can choose for extra benefits like an electric bike, private health insurance, dental & optical care, warrants, mobile phone, tablet, laptop or extra vacation days.
** Are you a freelancer?
If you're interested in this role as a full-time commitment, we welcome you to apply!
- Department
- Studio
- Locations
- Antwerp
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Antwerp
What's in it for you?
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A competitive salary
Your salary will be based on your skills & experience.
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Your own mobility budget
A monthly budget to lease an automatic Audi A3 or a VW ID3. Or to pay your own transport, your rent, or even your mortgage. You decide.
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Benefits
Meal vouchers, net allowances, bonuses, a flex income plan, hospitalization insurance, a retirement income saving plan. Everything you can imagine.
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Workations 🌴
We love sunshine. That's why we go to amazing locations with the team to work from there. Are you gonna join us next time?
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Hybrid work location
Perfect if you want to escape the Belgian weather to work a few weeks from Spain, South Africa, Mexico, or from wherever you want to!
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Everything you need to work
You will get a MacBook Pro, a phone subscription with unlimited data, and a Spotify premium account. Share your favorite playlists with us!
Workplace & culture
Great peers make all the difference in propelling you forward. At Upthrust you'll be fully immersed in working with the top 5% digital talent. You'll get the chance to attend world-renowned conferences, challenge yourself in our hackathons, and stay on top of the latest digital marketing trends in our own Growth Academy.
When it's time to unwind, you'll find our beloved Upthrusters on our rooftop terrace, or enjoying a relaxing moment out together in the city, or a park nearby.
About Upthrust
Founded in 2018, we are an elite team of 80+ marketers, analysts, designers, developers and project managers. We implement growth marketing processes & build high-performing digital products for ambitious SMEs and big corporates. We also train our clients’ internal teams on the process and tactics we use.
Together we are on a mission to create exponential growth for our clients, kick bullshit agencies out of the market and build a global network.
Click the Apply button and join us on our road to #worlddomination!
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