Company
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Elements

www.elements.nl
Location

Hybrid work from Almere:

  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Annual Salary
EUR 68k - EUR 85k
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Team & Tech Lead

Description

We are Elements. As a software development agency with over 25 years of experience, we develop award-winning apps that seamlessly integrate the most complex functionalities, ensuring an exceptional user experience for millions of daily users.

Our teams in Almere and Barcelona work closely with our clients to deliver the best technical solutions. We challenge ourselves and our partners to make technology and our daily operations accessible to everyone, so we can grow together.

We are seeking a skilled developer with experience in any of the following technologies: React, Python/Django, Swift, Kotlin, or React Native. This role requires an ambition to take on a Team Lead position with a focus on people. It offers an exciting and challenging blend of development, organizational tasks, and team support.

Check our current tech stack on stackshare.io/elements. To see some examples of our projects, check our website https://www.elements.nl/en/cases.

WHO ARE YOU?

You possess a strong technical foundation alongside exceptional communication, teamwork, and mentoring abilities, effortlessly empowering your team to elevate their performance. While your core experience lies in development, you understand that creating great products requires more than just writing good code.

You lead by example with enthusiasm, inspiring others through your exemplary behavior. Your dedication shines through in your contributions to organization-wide quality assurance and process improvements. You embrace challenges, consistently prioritizing the overarching goal: delivering excellent work on time while fostering a positive and motivated team environment.

You take pride in guiding others along their career paths and nurturing their growth. You value giving constructive feedback as much as receiving it, understanding its crucial role in helping your team members enhance their skills.

WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING MOSTLY?

  • Take on a dynamic role as a technical specialist in our projects (70% of your time), involving technical design, architecture, tech leadership, and client support.

  • Ensure the quality of our work by effectively communicating organizational standards, such as methodologies and standardized toolsets.

  • Collaborate closely with our sales team to help design solutions, support estimating processes, and present ideas to both new and existing clients.

  • Evaluate individual team members' performance, conduct performance management discussions, and oversee their follow-up. Focus on coaching team members and proactively checking in on their well-being and needs.

  • Serve as the go-to person for the team, offering assistance and collaborating on pragmatic solutions when challenges arise.

  • Communicate our values, strategy, objectives, and policies to the team, fostering a supportive and transparent work environment. Explain and follow up on the company vision, culture, decisions and requirements.

  • Work closely with our Heads of Engineering, Operations, and People & Culture to align efforts and strategies.

Requirements

WHAT YOU BRING

  • At least 6 years of software development experience

  • Proven experience in a leadership role where you led multiple people and helped them in their professional path

  • Excellent English language skills

  • Motivated by a leadership responsibilities

  • Proven ability to take decisions that impact yourself and others

  • Strong communication skills, experience with consulting clients and explaining complex technical matters in a simpler language that anyone can understand

  • Hands on, pragmatic and results-oriented attitude

  • Empathetic, flexible, open-minded and helpful

  • Independent thinker, yet committed to company’s and team’s success

  • Due to the urgency of this role we can only consider candidates already located in NL and/or possessing a valid work permit for NL/EU

Benefits

WHAT DO WE OFFER YOU?

  • We offer you a place in our diverse and experienced team of professionals, where you get to teach and learn at the same time;

  • Depending on your experience, gross annual salary of 68K to 85K including holiday allowance

  • You will have flexible working hours and a possibility to work from home or our office, or experience working as a digital nomad from another country for up to 2 months per year;

  • We encourage you to visit events and/or take courses to keep up-to-date and learn new skills by offering a yearly budget for personal development;

  • 25 paid vacation days per year;

  • Since we now work from home much more often, we contribute to your home internet subscription every month;

  • We also care about your wellbeing and offer you a choice between subscription for Headspace app or contribution to your gym membership;

  • To keep that close connection with our colleagues in Spain, we cover your flight tickets to Barcelona once a year, if you want to experience working from our office there;

  • We provide you with lunch, snacks and unlimited freshly ground coffee every day in the office;

  • A flexible pension plan;

  • All the hardware you need for work provided by us;

  • And, to top it off, what is work without some fun? We regularly organize drinks, dinners and other team building events

Do you see this role as a good match? Then we’d love to hear from you!