Tech Lead to Combat Climate Change!

Hi there! You know you’re a great developer. But do you have any idea how powerful you are with your programming skills and that you can use them to literally make this world a better place?

In ACT, we have developed a scalable mobile marketplace for sustainable grocery shopping, which will empower consumers to start shopping sustainably almost overnight with the ACT app, changing the direction of their combined purchasing power towards producers who respect the environment and treat their workers well.

If your eyes widened and lit up a bit, read on!

What would be my role in ACT?

Understand our easy to maintain legacy backend system (currently a monolith architecture built with microservice based architecture in mind using Java Spring Boot, Kotlin)

Further develop a scalable backend architecture in compliance with best development practices including any kind of refactoring, code base strategy forward, etc.

Optimize deployment pipeline through CI, CD

Implement new great features

Help launch the next major releases of the ACT shopping list app that will make ACT scale globally

Next prepare launch to a larger market in Europe

Work closely with the frontend to ensure interoperability, high availability and quality of the complete solution

What skills do I need to accomplish this?

3-5 Years of experience with Kotlin development

Experience with Java development

TDD, CI, CD

Scrum-based development

Plus with experience in:

DevOps, Linux commands/batch scripting

Property Graph databases and scaling

Development and production pipeline telemetry

Feature switching, trunk based development

PostgreSQL

GCP, Kubernetes/Cloud Run

Web development, React

Why is working with ACT so awesome?

For countless reasons, but let’s just name three of them:

Joining our team at the beginning of a fascinating journey means you’d simply have a say in what we do and how we do it and take ownership.

At the same time, you will get constant support, working hand in hand with our diverse and competent team.

And above all, you’d play a crucial role in the emergence of (possibly) the only tool that can realistically impact the future of the food production industry and thus mitigate global warming and change the lives of millions for the better.

*Why am I your ideal tech lead? *

Good collaboration skills in an international team

Disciplined and self-driven (it’s not easy to come back from work and work again!), honest and generally good-hearted as hell (...)

A team player building effective and fun relations with other people of diverse backgrounds, even when they’re on the other side of the Earth (or screen)

Enjoying remote work and flexibility of time and location

Fluent in English

Able to pay your bills and have a decent life with current stable job and devote at least 10 hours per week to ACT project. For the first period we are paying in shares/equity and we are aiming for a salary paid in cash.

What is your gut telling you?

We know this offer may be peculiar and the no-money-yet aspect can be tough. We’ve all been there, and yet there we are around 20(!) people literally infected with ACT’s vision (we are now fairly close to launch of a pivot launch of backend and frontend, very interesing developer challenges ahead). If your heart (or gut) tells you “I want to be the next ACTer, I want to have my share (metaphorically and literally!) in this world-changing project” there’s nothing left but send us an email to [email protected], tell us what your heart told you about working with ACT and share your skills and portfolio to prove that you not only want, but also can.

You cannot imagine how much we’re looking forward to meeting you :)

Cheers,
The ACT Team