Principal Software Engineer, Lepaya
2+ days a week in office
Power skill trainings for professionals
Open for applications
Power skill trainings for professionals
201-500 employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower professionals worldwide to be more effective in their work and to lead happier lives so that they can ignite businesses.
Role
Who you are
- Over 10 years of experience with the full development lifecycle of web applications
- +4 years in technical engineering leadership roles such as Staff or Principal
- +5 years of TypeScript expertise
- Fluent in English - effectively communicates tailored to the audience (tech and non-tech) for mutual understanding
- Expertise in service-oriented architectures, design patterns, and web services, especially in the B2B industry
- Engineer in scaleups or dynamic environments
- Strong background in automated testing and TDD
- Extensive experience with distributed systems, AWS, and Terraform
- Strong product mindset and teamwork; excels in cross-functional collaboration
- Solution-oriented approach, ownership, and leadership
- Experience mentoring and training engineers on development best practices
What the job involves
- Lepaya is evolving and our team plays a crucial role in shaping and enhancing the company's tech developments and innovation, and we are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to become a key person in our dynamic engineering team
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a broad organizational impact, where you'll work closely with our product engineering and DevOps teams to ensure our technical strategy aligns seamlessly with our product goals
- As a proactive key stakeholder, you will be instrumental in creating technical strategies and roadmaps, setting priorities to achieve OKRs, and fostering the growth of our engineering teams
- You will focus on building scalable, adaptable products and systems with a long-term, industry-leading perspective
- If you're eager to make a significant impact in a role that allows you to shape the future of Lepaya’s tech landscape while driving innovation and excellence, we would love to hear from you!
- Your first-year achievements
- Lead and drive the evolution of Lepaya's tech vision and strategy
- Drive a major migration from our old API to a new well-crafted DDD code with great code coverage using TDD
- Create and evolve the architecture of the Lepaya Capability Platform, integrating with multiple HR systems, CRM, Auth0, and other services
- Coordinate with the Tech Leads on the roadmap of our technical sprints. Guide and approve the scope, celebrating a better codebase at the end of each one of them
- Present overall changes, direction, and cool tech tools/enhancements to all Product and Tech folks in our monthly Engineering Alignment meetings
- Solve high-scope, complex technical problems by decomposing them into straightforward solutions
- Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products and strategize improvements according to the company's needs
- Ensure high quality of system architecture and design. Maintain high technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence. Stay updated with industry trends and technologies
- Lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of excellence
- Work closely with engineering managers. Assist with the hiring, resource allocation, ongoing feedback and performance reviews
- Engage with customers and internal/external stakeholders. Act as a consultant and spokesperson with product managers, designers, data, commercial teams, and senior leadership
Application process
- First, an introductory interview
- Then, a chat with the hiring manager
- Followed by a technical interview or a business case
- A chance to meet our founder; and finally, an offer
- We're all about getting to know you better, so we'll invite you to our office for a face-to-face stage, where you can meet potential future colleagues and experience our awesome office vibes firsthand!
Our take
Lepaya is an edtech company which was established with the belief that the right training at the right time is paramount to making organisations more productive. They provide training via a hybrid learning model, combining bite-sized online content with group sessions led by experienced trainers.
Lepaya combines "hard" skills with "soft" skills, which they call "power skills" training. Lepaya has worked with scale-ups such as Mollie, Picnic and Bynder as well as multinationals such as L’Oréal, Microsoft and KPMG.
The global training and development sector is worth billions. With its 2023 funding boost (the largest annual funding raise in its sector) and 2022 acquisition of UK-based SpeakFirst, Lepaya aims to drive its mission to make fast-growing companies more productive by upskilling their workforce. Lepaya will use the funding and acquisitions to further expand into European markets such as the UK, Germany, and the Nordics.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2023
$38m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$38.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $83.9m
Company benefits
- Disruptive approach to learning and development
- Fun international team
- Inspiring and fast-paced environment
- Lots of responsibility and opportunities for growth
- Our work-to-live scheme: unlimited holidays and Friday off every second week
Company values
- Nimble. In the world of L&D everyone soon finds out that mental flexibility (the physical we leave to you) is essential
- Delight. Our mission is to make it possible for employees to feel great in the workplace
- Impact. We work to live, not live to work
- Excellence
Company HQ
De Weteringschans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Articles
Leadership
René Janssen
(Managing Director)They were an Executive Vice President & Deputy Chief People officer at Lazada Group.
Peter Kuperus
(Managing Director)They've previously worked at TravelBird as a Vice President and Manager. They have also co-found Westwing Home & Living NL.
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