Technical Lead

Would you like to make a real impact every day by helping people feel safe and secure? Are you interested in joining a passionate team that believes security is a human right? Are you looking for a company where innovation and technology are at the heart of its solutions?

At Verisure (Securitas Direct) , we are looking to hire a Technical Lead to join our IT Mkt & Sales BP team, within our Technology department. We seek talented, motivated individuals eager to contribute to the development of secure, scalable, and high-performance backend services that power our internal and external solutions.

Who We Are

Verisure (Securitas Direct) is the leading provider in Europe and Latin America of professionally monitored security systems with 24/7 response services. We protect more than 5 million families and businesses across 17 countries.

Thanks to our strong focus on delivering high-quality service, we aim to have the most satisfied and loyal customer base in the industry. We are proud to have some of the strongest growth and retention rates globally in consumer-oriented services, reflecting our commitment to exceptional service levels and a solid value proposition for our customers.

Main Responsibilities

We are looking for a Technical Lead who will collaborate with a team of experienced Software Developers, helping the team to succeed in their goals.

You will be the main SPOC for the Product Owner (in Business team) working with them to understand and refine the backlog and make the implementation possible with the development team afterwards. You will interact with other technical leads (within the IT Mkt&Sales teams and in other IT areas located in Spain and Sweden) and architecture teams.

• Be the lead of the technical solution and the software developer teams , understanding the business requirements and proposing and leading the implementation of these requirements with the team.

• Have deep knowledge of the SW into his domain and have technical skills to change and update it when necessary.

• Create your technical debt backlog , prioritize with the PO and make the implementation possible within the team.

• Ensure implementation of software development lifecycle to deliver in production.

• Accountable for the quality of the delivered product and encourage the team to achieve continuous improvement. Ensure automatic tests are written and performed and regression tests are always updated.

• Validate SW designs : Archetypes, design patterns, sonar rules.

• Manage the technical performance of the software development team

• Main stakeholders:

  • You will work hand by hand with the product owner to understand the business needs and transform them into technical requirements for the team.

  • You will interact with architecture teams to validate high level architecture design: Queues, Load Balancers, DNS/GTM, DB cluster, micro-services in Kubernetes. Jenkins pipelines

  • Other Technical Leads to have a common ground on best practices adoption

  • Scrum Master and WoW team to ensure your team follow the WoW of the company and best practices are implemented.

  • Work together with the Service/Maintenance team, QA team and developers to drive to 0 the bugs in production.

Requirements

Master/ B.A in Computer Engineer or Telecommunications

Fluent in English and Spanish

+6 years of proven experience in SW Development, ideally as a Full-stack developer with knowledge in the following technologies:

• Expertise needed in MongoDB. Other DB will be a plus (Oracle, MS SQL, Cassandra, Sybase).

• Experience in micro-services development (SpringBoot) and deployment on Kubernetes.

• Experience in Java8 and Java 11

• Expertise in messaging JMS or brokers (RabbitMQ, nsq or Kafka).

• Experience in Azure platform.

• Experience in development best practices, control version tools (GitLab), CI/CD, and SW quality (GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, SONAR, code reviews, etc.).

• Experience in testing automation: Spring State Machine, Spring framework 5.3.X, Spring Cloud, Spring Reactive (WebFlux, Data reactive MongoDB), Spring Gateway, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Integration, Lombok, Orika, Mapstruct, Rabbit MQ, Azure AD, AKS, Swagger, OpenAPI, MongoDB, Git, Maven, Docker, Helm 3.0, Jenkinsfiles, Jenkins, Kibana, SonarQube, K8S

Experience in Agile Methodologies working in an agile environment (SCRUM, KANBAN, SAFE, LESS, etc.) with teams working remotely.

Competencies

• Strategic mindset and leadership skills to lead a team and the implementation of the strategy.

• Communication skills to interact with different stakeholders, to align product owner, scrum master, architect and development team necessities.

• Leadership skills to help Team Leader with the team motivation to learn new methodologies

• Service culture, continuous improvement mindset

• Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to address complex issues involving data movement and data replication

• Proactive and dynamic person. Focus on making things happen. Self-organized, goal focused.

• Must be a self-starter as well as a team player.

What We Offer

• Work with cutting-edge technology and end-to-end processes.
• Modern methodologies: Agile, Scrum, DevOps.
• International company, leader in its sector.
• Hybrid model: 2 days of remote work per week + 2 weeks per year working from anywhere.
• Projects with international stakeholders.
• Dynamic and collaborative environment.
• Regular team-building activities.
• Continuous technical training and development programs.
• Benefits and flexible compensation.
• 23 vacation days + additional hours off.
• Free lunch at the office.

Strong fit with our Company DNA

Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people bring a contagious energy and a sense of urgency that is unmistakable. We create a vision and inspire others around that vision with full engagement and focus. We are all-in, and we love what we do.

Committed to Making a Difference: We are courageous, we deliver what we promise through hard work and resilience. We make a difference, through operating with discipline and doing what is needed. We are hands-on, and we aren't afraid to get into the detail. We deliver results and we execute with excellence.

Always Innovating: Our people make the impossible possible; it's a continuous state of mind. We are purpose-driven, curious and we challenge the status quo. We believe good ideas travel, we share and reapply. We take smart risks, and we are not afraid to fail. We believe innovation can be big or small.

Winning as a Team: We are determined to become number 1, and to do that we need to listen to one another, collaborate and work together. We play our part, fueled by a winning attitude and a fighting spirit. We celebrate our successes. We play to our strengths and our diversity to deliver even better outcomes, while developing and supporting one another. We believe that together we go further, and that nothing is impossible.

With Trust & Responsibility: Our people take responsibility for the people we protect. We are accountable and reliable. We role model operating with integrity. We trust and empower one another to do the right thing, always. We deliver on our promise through world-class expertise and meticulous know-how. And, we do this with humility while being honoured to play such an important role in society.

Diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging at Verisure

At Verisure, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, recognising that diversity of thought and background only makes our teams stronger and more innovative. We reject all forms of discrimination and bias, and we believe in access to opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, age, disability status, race, sexual orientation, or any other status.