About Bob W

Bob W is a fast-growing tech company providing an authentic 5-star experience to every single guest at scale while leading the world’s transition to sustainable hospitality.Bob’s apartments cater to the 21st-century traveller who wants it all: the consistent quality of a hotel and the authentic flair of a short-stay rental. We combine the best of both worlds in our climate-neutral apartments in Tallinn, Helsinki, London, Milan, Oslo, Tartu, Florence, Athens, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Madrid's coolest neighbourhoods. As we expand across Europe fuelled by venture capital and investment from top-tier real estate equity firms, we’re building the technology to give every guest a local, five-star experience at scale.

So, are you ready to join the journey?About the roleOur small tech team is growing fast, which means you potentially have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a funded tech startup while there is not much tech yet. The team is developing the platform to run a world-class accommodation operation with the scale and reliability only tech can unleash. As a Software Engineering Team Lead at Bob W, you will be responsible for our small but mighty and tight-knit team of software engineers. You will be responsible for actively driving day-to-day execution, hiring, and onboard team members, ensuring system reliability and availability, prioritizing quality over new features, advocating for sustainable technical decisions, providing constructive feedback, possessing deep technical expertise, conducting performance reviews, and serving as the main point of contact for cross-departmental collaboration.

Are you interested to learn why we hire software engineers? We have written an article to explain just that!

In this role, you will:

• Remain hands-on and primarily write code, as our frontend or backend engineers do.
• Guide team development efforts towards successful delivery together with the Product Manager.
• Help your team to maintain high standards of quality by establishing good practices and habits.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews, and help team members to set development goals and achieve them.
• Make sure that development processes in the team work well and remove team barriers.
• Be responsible for hiring new team members together with the in-house recruitment team.
• Serve as the main point of contact for other teams and departments.

Our 5-star candidate:

• Is ready to join an early-stage technology startup to disrupt the hospitality industry with ⚡
• Has 5+ years of experience in software development, being experienced with backend development (Node.js) or frontend development (React or Vue).
• Has at least 1+ years of management experience.
• Leads initiatives, takes ownership and feels passionate about IT.
• Has previous experience in leading agile teams.
• Knows their way around and has previous experience hiring team members.
• Is passionate about mentoring less experienced colleagues.
• Can communicate clearly.
• Is an avid supporter of continuous learning.
• Feels ambitious about taking on more and more responsibility.

Nice to have: 

• Experience in working at a product-first company.
• Higher education in STEM fields.
• Experience working with multiple tech stacks throughout your career or with different fields (e.g. different languages, frameworks, DBs, organizations, CI/CD, devops etc).
• An entrepreneurial mindset and experience working in startup environments.
• Inner drive to make customers happy by providing them with the best experience.

We offer: 

• The opportunity to re-invent the world’s largest industry by shaping a young and dynamic tech company with huge growth ambitions
• Career progression framework and annual learning budget
• Voluntary health insurance, sports compensation, and mental health support. 
• Unlimited holidays and company stock options. 
• Smart and highly motivated team all based in Tallinn, Estonia. 

Job Level: M4Learn more about our career development framework here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.