Technology Lead

**Description**

The Portfolio Company will provide the commercial airline industry, hotels, and other travel vendors the ability to offer a range of direct purchase options of their services to customers. The Technology Lead will develop the Portfolio Company product and actively support growth of the Portfolio Company development team. The long-term intent of this role is to become a leading technical executive at this Portfolio Company as it scales.

As the Technology Lead, you will perform a broad range of essential functions, including overall architecture planning, internal software development and leading a small team. You will also support project planning and direct ongoing full-stack team development tasks.

**About Scrawlr**

Scrawlr is a company building a software platform and series of products dedicated to enabling alternative forms of communication layered on existing internet content, together with delivering superior monetization flexibility and content ownership for content generators. We have recently completed our internal beta and are preparing for our external beta. We are looking forward to bringing on additional like-minded individuals to assist in product launch. The founder, board of directors, and lead investors in Scrawlr have a strong background in a variety of successful, transformational startups, and we are building our platform alongside a number of other startups within a successful ecosystem.

**Why you should work here**

We are working on a transformational project that we believe will have a global impact, and we expect our team members to solve complex, unique technical problems on a daily basis. Our team members are given a high degree of product ownership, including the latitude to propose and implement approaches that can be divergent from all standard or existing solutions.

We are committed to an environment where we seek and adopt the best possible solution to any problem, evaluating solutions on the basis of merit rather than hierarchy. We are looking for leaders who have the capacity to challenge existing solutions, both from within and outside of the organization, and propose superior alternatives.

**Compensation**
$96k - 115k per annum plus an equity position in the Portfolio Company for being one of the first team members

**Responsibilities**
- Build the API connection layer for front-end components
- Mentor and lead a small/medium sized team
- Meaningfully contribute to product planning, project management tasks and overall company development
- Handle task creation, task breakdown, and distribution
- Improve our infrastructure and continuously improve our Full-stack Team

**Desired skills or experience**
- Five (5) years of work experience in a development agency or company development environments
- One (1) year of experience working on Vue.js framework or similar
- One (1) year of experience with Laravel/Lumen framework or similar
- Experience leading small to midsize multi product backend teams with demonstrated ability to mentor, grow team members as well as provide technical guidance and oversight on implementation direction
- Experience designing RESTful API and microservices architecture
- Good understanding Postgres (SQL) and Redis (In-memory DB), or similar
- Knowledge of API/microservices authentication/security flows (JWT, OAuth and similar)
- Experience writing and maintaining automated unit/feature/mutation testing (PHPUnit, Infection, Bats, Jest, etc.)
- Solid experience with debugging and identifying performance bottlenecks
- Solid analytical and problem-solving mindset combined with experience troubleshooting large scale systems
- Solid understanding of building scalable, high performing systems and services

**Nice to have skills or experience**
- Experience working in start-up environments
- Experience working in e-commerce industry (experience specific to travel products of particular interest)
- Experience with Vuex and reactive state management concepts and React components
- Substantial experience with Rust/Node.js and/or Python programming languages and ecosystems
- Experience building and maintaining Composer packages
- PWA project experience
- In-depth knowledge of Linux systems (specifically Ubuntu/Alpine)
- Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and data personalisation
- GitHub profile with sample projects you would like to showcase

If you are interested in fundamentally changing the way consumers interact with and use services we would love to speak with you. This position is a unique opportunity for an individual interested in launching a transformational product in a challenging, dynamic work environment.

We are looking for exceptional individuals, and from there we can work with all levels of experience. If what we are doing is of interest to you, but you are not sure if you fit into this role, we look forward to engaging to find the right position.
- We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualifie