London, UK

Technical Lead

About Splyt

Splyt is the leading global network for mobility and lifestyle services. Our technology integrates ridehailing, airport transfers, micromobility, public transport and food delivery into our partners’ platforms, so they can unlock the world for their customers. Splyt has offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur, but we feel at home anywhere. Our amazing partners are the largest in the business, with over 2 billion users in total, and we are constantly expanding our footprint beyond the 150 countries we already cover.

Working with us

We are a remote-first company, with a fun, diverse and enthusiastic bunch from all corners of the world (with 25 nationalities and 20 languages spoken amongst our employees). We live and breathe our values of Ingenuity, Independence, Collaboration, and Laughter. Our exceptional culture is underpinned by an empowering, collaborative learning environment where our people are constantly stretched and growing to be high-performing and, most importantly, happy.

Splyt teams are small, autonomous squads. This allows every team member to contribute to the team vision. Our technical arsenal is diverse, however we develop exclusively in TypeScript as we value cross-team collaboration.

Developers at Splyt are talented, innovative and passionate engineers that have built significant customer-facing products (serving several million users), playing a key role in engineering the systems that make up Splyt.

The role

In your role as Technical Lead, you will be responsible for day to day management of various projects, line managing a team of fantastic developers and collaborating with various teams in the business to drive development at Splyt forward.

What you’ll be doing:

  •  Lead a team of talented developers
  • Establish the technical direction of the team and several projects
  • Manage ongoing projects and new projects as they appear; planning sprints, managing deadlines with the team and communicating with various stakeholders
  • Collaborate with multiple engineering teams, QA, Product and Design and much more
  • Fully understand requirements from our partner network and shareholders and deliver projects to a high standard
  • Actively participate in various stakeholder meetings around projects and deliverables
  • Be responsible for the personal and professional development of various team members, including 1:1s, setting goals and development plans etc.
  • Contribute to the overall technology function in regards to infrastructure, shared knowledge and continuous improvement
Who we are looking for:

  • Robust technical knowledge of React, Node.js and Typescript. Bonus points for experience with hybrid app development, or native iOS & Android experience.
  • Excellent people management skills, proven experience lifting up individuals and teams
  • Driven, passionate and self reliant
  • Background in managing and delivering projects with the end user in mind
  • Strong opinions when it comes to best practices in software development
  • Someone with a collaborative and meaningful communication style, confident in liaising with the immediate team and beyond
  • Experience working with and integrating RESTful APIs
  • Enjoy solving complex problems
  • Someone based in either Europe or Asia (for timezone purposes)
What we can offer you:

  • Competitive salary
  • Fully remote working
  • All the equipment you need
  • Home office set up
  • Lots of discounts on everyday lifestyle items
  • Annual training allowance
  • Fun, regular team events & host of other benefits
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