Senior Backend Engineer & Chapter Lead - Offering

Join MOIA as a Senior Backend Engineer & Chapter Lead

MOIA is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Backend Engineer & Chapter Lead to join our Offering team. This role is pivotal in driving both technical excellence and team development within our organization.

Role Overview

As a Chapter Lead, you will balance dual roles. On one hand, you will engage hands-on with the day-to-day technical tasks of your team's product development. You will collaborate with your peers and the tech lead of your team to follow the roadmap and address new stories from the team backlog. On the other hand, you will take responsibility for the growth and development of individuals outside your team—your chapter members (chaptees). You will act as a confidant, coach, and mentor for your chaptees and facilitate their growth through active listening and empathetic behavior. You will perform administrative people management tasks and support your chapter members in their career journeys.

About the Offering Team

The Offering team is responsible for providing our users with an intuitive and quick booking experience. The team owns the app screens from origin and destination selection to selecting and ordering an offer. The team is motivated by converting as many users as possible from opening the app to ordering a trip, which they achieve by constantly iterating and A/B-testing new features or UX improvements. Next to the app parts, they operate backend (micro)services as a middle layer between our MOIA-internal APIs and the app to keep them slim and lightweight with the complexity handled in the backend.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead with Servant Leadership: Guide and inspire engineers using a servant leadership approach. By fostering a supportive and empowering environment, you will enable the overall career development of your chaptees.
• Proactively Balance Your Hats: As Chapter Lead, you enjoy balancing your hats and setting clear expectations with the team. You will be spending 20% to 50% of your time on very empathetic people leadership tasks – changing over time and depending on the overall demands and projects in the larger organization.
• Performance Focus: In collaboration with other roles, you will be responsible for fair and unbiased salaries across your chapter based on past performance.
• Be a Role Model: You represent the core values and principles of MOIA in people leadership as much as product delivery in the team. As a chapter lead in MOIA, you rise by lifting others.
• Culture Development: Together with the other Chapter Leads, you will play an active role in shaping and nurturing the MOIA tech culture, ensuring it remains innovative and inclusive.
• Provide an Outstanding Customer Experience: Together with the developers of your team, you will contribute to a one-of-a-kind app which provides a smooth and friction-free experience to our customers.
• Assure Quality: Ensure the systems owned by your team meet the highest quality standards, including code reviews, testing, and validation processes across team boundaries.
• Breathing “Agile”: You are a role model following core agile working methodologies in the team: you know DevOps best practices by heart, are familiar with automated testing, infrastructure as code, continuous deployment, and production observability.

What Will Help You Fulfill Your Role

• A customer-centric mindset to drive the team’s contribution within their value stream.
• Experience with or a strong interest in developing software in Scala and/or in functional programming in any other JVM language. Bonus if you know your way around Kubernetes on AWS.
• Ability to apply best practices with a high standard of quality while also being pragmatic on when your implementation is “good enough”.
• Experience in leading people and taking care of their career growth.
• Previous experience in attracting and retaining talent.
• Awareness of the dynamics in organizational development.
• Importance of feedback in general and specific in pairing and code review.
• Ability to navigate and resolve conflicts both for yourself as well as for others.

We encourage you to apply even if your profile does not meet all the requirements for the role since we are looking for a diverse range of experiences, skills, and interests. We are certain that there will be something for everyone because we are working on such a variety of tasks and embrace individual growth at MOIA.

About MOIA

At MOIA GmbH, our team of more than 350 employees develops the technical products for our on-demand ridepooling service in the form of an end-to-end integrated product, from hub, fleet, and driver management to passenger and B2B solutions. At the same time, we want to make the vision of an autonomously driving mobility service a reality and plan to bring the first autonomous MOIA ridepooling vehicle to the streets by 2025.

At our offices in Berlin and Hamburg, international teams of developers, engineers, designers, and strategists work on a shared mission. As a tech company, more than half of our employees are developers. We pursue value-driven development based on our product values of comfort, reliability, safety, and privacy.

We aspire to be a leading company in the fields of rethinking mobility and improving urban transportation by making it more relaxed, more affordable, and an entirely positive experience for everyone.

MOIA gets things moving. On a shared journey – towards an easier, smarter, and more meaningful future.