Haskell Team Lead - Infrastructure team

Your job:

We are looking for a new team lead for one of our Infra teams, which we call internally “Infra Blue”. In tandem with the other Infra team, called “ Infra Red”,  your mission in this role is to architect and deliver foundational services that empower the product engineering teams building our e-commerce platform.

Together with your team, you will be tackling challenging engineering problems, working on high-performing and scalable services written mostly in Haskell (although we also have some Rust), while also providing a high-quality developer experience for the teams that use them via Python.

Your time will be split approximately 50-50 between leadership tasks and hands-on development. Being in a leadership position, you are a mentor to other team members, unblocking them when they face challenging roadblocks, and you help them grow both their hard and soft skills. As part of your hands-on work, you are contributing to the architecture and the ongoing development and maintenance of our services.

You will initially be managing a team of five Haskell engineers, and you will be working closely together with the engineering manager of the platform group, our technical product manager, who helps build the roadmap, and the stakeholders from other engineering teams that consume our services.

Your challenges:

Your Team Lead tasks will include:

• Organize the work and manage priorities

• Plan sprints for your team

• Collaborating with our technical product manager on the long-term roadmap

• Mentor team members, help them grow and do progress reviews with them

• Set up project teams and mentor project leads

• Interview and hire new team members

• Implement, and improve upon, our processes for the team 

• Establish team culture and foster a collaborative environment
  

Your Development tasks will include:

• Design, develop and test new features in our services

• Improve the reliability and robustness of our application

• Work on scalability and performance improvements

• Collaborate with and review PRs of other engineers

• Breaking down big projects into smaller issues

• Writing clear and actionable issues

• Debugging and fixing issues, and teaching team members to do the same

• Work together with our product engineering and DevOps teams on requirements and issues

Who are you?

You like working in a dynamic team of skilled engineers, discussing technical decisions openly and collaboratively. It is easy for you to break down big issues into smaller tasks and to prioritize work pragmatically.

To set you up for success in this role, we think you'll benefit from having the following skills and experience:

• You have previous experience leading an engineering team, or you are an experienced engineer with at least 4  years of professional experience, excited to start your career as a leader.

• You can give detailed code reviews both from a high-level and a low-level perspective.

• You have the technical depth to help your team members grow and can remove roadblocks for them.

• You have substantial backend development experience, and you are skilled with Haskell, and ideally comfortable with Rust and Python.

• You are familiar with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL), Linux and git.

• You have experience with web development, web technologies, and APIs.

• You have strong communication and problem-solving skills.

• You are a people-oriented individual who helps others with an open and approachable attitude.

• You value high software engineering standards.

• You are pragmatic and empathic towards your team members and other stakeholders (i.e. colleagues from other departments etc).

• You like helping the team focus on the most important tasks, making sure its priorities and plans align with the rest of the company (we use the OKR framework for this).

Some practical things we expect from you:

• You are available for at least 32 hours per week.

• You live in the Netherlands (or are willing to relocate) and own a work permit (if you’re a non-EU citizen).

Important note: We understand that studies show women may only apply for roles when they feel they meet 100% of the requirements; therefore, we strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box, as we are looking for passionate individuals with potential and a willingness to grow.

Who are we?

Channable was founded in 2014 in the heart of Utrecht. We are now a strong team of 250+ diverse individuals, and more than 40+ nationalities.
Joining Channable means you’re looking for a bit more than just a job. Diverse as we are, we all share our love for growth, to help, to take ownership, and create an awesome journey together. Feel free to take a further look at who we are here and on our Instagram or Linkedin! Wanna get to know us even more? Give our Culture Playbook a read.

What do we do?

Channable is a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform that offers a fully integrated way to market your products online. We empower marketers and online businesses to manage, scale, and optimize their marketing

Want to read more about our development adventures? Then visit our inspiring tech blog: https://tech.channable.com/

And if this makes you enthusiastic, you can also take a look at some of our open-source work at https://github.com/channable to get a feeling of how we work together and what our code looks like.

What do we offer?

• Gross monthly salary ranging from € 4.385 to € 8912 based on a 40-hour work week. The salary range reflects our leadership career framework. Your final role level will be determined throughout the recruitment process,  based on alignment with this framework.

• 8% holiday allowance - 8% of your yearly salary, which is paid together with your May salary.

• Stock Appreciation Rights: eligible employees can financially profit from Channable’s success.

• Annual L&D budget of €1000 to spend on anything you want to learn. You can take full advantage of this to grow professionally.

• Saving for old age - we have a savings scheme for old age, which can accrue up to 5% of your monthly salary.

• Company-wide performance bonus, up to 10% of your annual salary, determined yearly by our founders based on financial planning and targets.

• Traveling to our office? No problem, we got you covered (NS Business Card, or €0,23 per km if you decide to use a different means of transport).

• To work in a beautiful historic and fully renovated office in the heart of Utrecht & with a flexible hybrid working policy of (minimum 2 days in the office).

• Since you can work from home for 3 days a week, we will provide home office supplies.

• Having flexible working hours means starting your day between 8.00–10.00 am.

• 26 vacation days + 2 reload days based on 40 hours.

• We offer a 3-week-long workcation; and an additional 3 weeks, if you live as an expat in the Netherlands!

• Are you going to become a parent? We think it is important that you spend time with your newborn. Enjoy 5 weeks of 100% paid partner leave.

• We want you to feel good - please feel free to use our discounted Urban Sport Club subscription.

• You have free & anonymous access to the OpenUp platform, and psychologists. This free service is also available to your family members.

• Channaweekend (we will go abroad yearly for a long weekend with all the colleagues from all over the world).

• At Channable, our Chef and Commis Chef prepare fresh meals Monday to Thursday, catering to all dietary needs - including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free - to keep our team fueled and inspired!

• Additional working conditions like massages, in-office bar (Channabar), parties, sports teams (even personal training sessions at our Channagym), video games, and many more!

How can you introduce yourself to us?

Are you interested? Please apply by clicking on the "apply now" button below. Please send your application in English. If it's a match, Ioana  (Tech Talent Acquisition Partner) will get in touch with you for an introduction call. After that, you'll be invited for interviews. We look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible!

Contact by job agencies and recruiters will not be appreciated. Each recruiter or headhunter who approaches us agrees with a donation of €250 for Make-A-Wish.

At Channable, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration and we believe in diverse and inclusive teams.