[Hiring] Team Lead Software Development @Checkmk GmbH

Role Description

Your mission:

• Lead a cross-functional team of 4-6 software developers and ensure their further development, both disciplinary and technical.
• Contribute to the further development of several core parts of our software, taking on different roles: coach, motivator, or sparring partner.
• Actively develop and contribute to high quality through code reviews.
• Be the coach of the team members, running 1:1s and feedback discussions.
• Support the personal and career development of individual developers.
• Support team culture and bonding via team events and other measures.
• Hire new team members and align the needs of your team with the engineering manager.

Qualifications

• Profound engineering experience.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, or similar.
• 5+ years of hands-on development experience in Python; C++/Rust is a plus.
• Experience in managing/leading a team, including hiring, 1:1s, giving feedback, building teams, and delivering quality code on time.
• Desire to develop code while having a bigger impact by shaping your team.
• Accountable for the results of your team.
• Positive energy and a motivating spirit.
• Thrive in international environments and fluent in English; fluency in German is a strong plus.
• Product-oriented mindset, aiming to build a great product for users.
• Strong writing skills and ability to organize work in an asynchronous fashion to fit in a remote culture.

Benefits

• The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast-growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities.
• Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment.
• Workation: opportunity to work 6 weeks within the EU to extend your vacation.
• Access to over 9,000 sports and wellness offers from Wellpass.
• An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision-making within flat hierarchies.
• A unique corporate culture emphasizing equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• A wide range of education and training opportunities.
• Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central districts of Munich.
• An attractive salary.
• Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party, and more) in a familiar atmosphere.

Company Description

We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably. Over the last years, we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US, and beyond. Our colleagues currently work from our Munich HQ as well as across Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, USA, UK, Singapore, and Malaysia.

We are a dynamic, fast-growing, and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us, you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.

With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them cope with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product, and your work helps to keep it that way!