About us
In Packlink we want to be the fastest-growing global provider of shipping services and technology.
We
are building the best shipping platform for private customers and
businesses. Shipping is a complex business and small to medium
businesses need a solution to the problems shipping brings into their
day to day work. With our technology, SMBs can improve their shipping
experience delivering a premium service to their customers.
At
the Packlink Engineering team we are looking incorporate hands-on
engineer managers to help our great engineers to unlock all their
potential as persons as well as software engineers.
You
will bring your people and leadership skills to work with talented
people to understand their needs and help them progress through their
career.
To achieve this we work in interdisciplinary teams with clearly defined responsibilities.
What you’ll find is
- Microservices, microservices and microservices, with more than 27 in production
- More than 3.4K requests per minute... are you up for the challenge?
- Event oriented architecture
- A company with more than 15 nationalities.
- Docker containers from your local environment until production.
- DevOps mentality
- And much more!
What you will be doing:
As a Manager/Lead
- You
will be working with up to 2 other talented engineers to help them
unlock their potential. Given our organisational model they might be in
different teams and with different priorities.
- Conducting regular 1:1s with every person you manage to give and receive feedback
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing high performing engineers
- Helping individuals determine the best way to reach their professional goals
- Managing performance and providing useful, timely feedback
- Guiding engineers to the right training courses, conferences, and potential stretch projects
- Coordinate with other Engineer Managers to have common strategies and goals regarding people growth.
- Contributing
to management best practices: helping us become an exceptional place to
work for the ambitious, highly motivated people that we hire
- Participate in hiring processes and in the decision making of new candidates
- Hire and develop great people
- Maintain a supportive and engaging team culture
- Lead by example
- Report directly to the CTO
- Mentor other team members
As a QA engineer
- Designing and implementing the test automation strategy and automated tests.
- Work with all of engineering to maintain and adapt the tests suite.
- Work side by side with other software engineers to improve the tests
- Analyse new tools and trends in the testing environment
- Work within the engineering team to build the next generation CI/CD pipeline
- Reporting directly to the CTO
Requirements
What we are looking for:
- Work permit for the EU.
- Communicating with technical and non-technical teams.
- 5+ years of real, hands-on experience in QA automation in a professional environment.
- Knowledge
of advanced QA techniques and tools: *box testing, testing pyramid,
stress, performance, test artifacts, API testing, etc
- Experience with at least one CI/CD tool.
- Experience with people management.
- Experience with at least one programming language.
- Understanding of OOP principles.
- Experience with VCS like git or Mercurial.
- Passionate about new technologies and problems to solve. You’re ready to offer fresh ideas.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, proactive, self-sufficient, but also a team oriented.
- Highly communicative, you’re able to work with multiple teams: internal and external team members, clients and providers.
- We are an international company, ability to read in English is needed.
- It would be valuable to have a degree in Computer Science or related technical/scientific discipline.
I’d be great if you:
- Have knowledge of the JVM.
- Have Scala Knowledge, is a big plus.
- Experience with Spring Framework.
- Experience with Docker, Consul, RabbitMQ and other cloud-enabling technologies highly preferred.
- Experience with SaaS CI tools (Circle CI, Travis CI, etc)
Benefits
What we offer:
- Competitive salary. We’re looking for the right person.
- Up to 2000€/year budget to improve your skills.
- Opportunity to attend and speak at local user groups as well as international events.
- Flexible working hours.
- Remote when needed.
- Paid 22 days vacation leave.
- Amazing location, amazing city: Madrid centre (next to Atocha station).
- Free English/Spanish/German classes.
- We care about you: gym membership or private health insurance, 100% free.
- Take your bday off and celebrate it the way you want it.
