WHO ARE WE?

Hello, we are Dept – an international digital agency with the most experienced thinkers & makers. One agency uniting creativity, technology, and data. Helping reinvent & accelerate your digital reality by creating experiences that people want and businesses need.

About the job:

For our office in Skopje, we are looking for a Tech Lead. This is someone who understands the business behind development, and someone who can successfully convert our customers' digital dreams into a well-functioning platform.

As a Tech Lead, you apply knowledge acquired through years of experience to work out complex requirements on a conceptual and technical level in one or more architectural solutions. You are responsible for the technical design of the customer solution, realized without losing sight of the feasibility, financial impact, performance and operational security. You set out the lines to build future ready solutions, using our Dept principles; cloud first, best of breed, technologically proven and quality driven development. You guide our customers to their new digital future and guide our development teams to do their magic! Our junior, medior and senior developers see you as their mentor and coach. In this role, we give you the freedom you need to improve the team according to your own insight and we trust you to make the most of this opportunity.

You will work in cooperation with our team in the Netherlands for a variety of global clients such as Plieger, Gant, Canyon, Maandag, Aegon, Van Gogh Museum, Bol.com, Bugaboo, and many others. Within these platforms, we design and build API ecosystems, deliver highly optimized websites, create awesome mobile apps, personalize user experiences through the use of machine learning, and much more! We closely collaborate with our clients and their tech teams, to deliver the best products and achieve customer experience satisfaction!

Yes, we are eager to have the most talented experts in the game on board but we are also looking for a perfect Dept-fit. Someone who is eager to learn, inspires, strives towards a better world. Ultimately, we are looking for a unique individual who is able to strengthen our collective.

• Have 7+ years work experience and a broad knowledge of the IT world;
• Are an analytical and conceptual thinker, who thinks about architecture on a strategic level;
• Have a pragmatic and problem solving approach within the boundaries of QA;
• Have experience with Service Design, Deployment Strategy and Business Architecture;
• Have experience with, or are an expert in Java, Javascript, Node.js, .NET or PHP;
• You have experience with cloud platforms like Azure of AWS;
• Can present your ideas and solutions in clear diagrams, with efficient and easy to read documentation, supported by defined quality attributes;
• From e-commerce and DXP, to building and designing API ecosystems on cloud platforms, you have great ideas when thinking of the best solutions for our customers;
• Always keep security and performance in mind when coming up with software architecture;
• Have experience in working with external clients and projects;
• Speak English fluently.