Tech Lead - Operator Finance

Arrive; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AI upskilling initiatives

Job summary

Arrive, a global mobility platform, is seeking a full-stack Tech Lead to guide the Operational Finance team's technical direction. You will provide architecture vision, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery of scalable backend services and responsive front-end work.

The role requires Java and Kotlin, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud expertise; you will collaborate with product managers, participate in on-call duties, and help drive AI initiatives across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating highly available distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Expert-level solid understanding of Spring Framework (Java) for backend development in a microservice environment.
• Expertise in building (Docker) and management (Kubernetes) tools.
• Deep knowledge of data modeling and management tools (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Looker).
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Experience in writing robust testing strategies including BDD.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural decisions for the team.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the analysis and enhancement of complex existing business logic in backend services based on new requirements.
• Drive and perform code reviews, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical execution plans and tasks.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from concept and design to deployment and post-launch monitoring.
• Contribute to alleviating technical debt by setting and enforcing industry best practices and standards.
• Oversee product support (PSS) and participate in on-call duty, leading the team's response to critical incidents and outages.

Skills

Java / Kotlin

Spring Framework

RESTful APIs

DevOps practices

React / JavaScript

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Looker

Flyway / Liquibase

REST

React

Job description

We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us!

As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.

We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us!

As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.

Tech Lead

The Operational Finance team is responsible for delivering financial reporting to internal partners and external parking operators to enable invoicing and remittance. The team works with production data and follows a full-stack approach, where the Tech Lead plays a crucial role in providing technical vision, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the quality and successful delivery of the product. We are seeking a highly experienced engineer with strong Java/Kotlin expertise and proven full-stack programming and leadership principles to guide the team's technical direction.

Team profile is full stack with back-end and front-end.

The Tech Stack

PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Java, Kotlin, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, REST, JavaScript

We are looking for a full-stack Tech Lead for a full-time position.

• Provide technical leadership and direction to the team, including making critical architectural and design decisions.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the analysis and enhancement of complex existing business logic in backend services based on new requirements.
• Drive and perform code reviews, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical execution plans and tasks.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from concept and design to deployment and post-launch monitoring.
• Contribute to alleviating technical debt by setting and enforcing industry best practices and standards.
• Oversee product support (PSS) and participate in on-call duty, leading the team's response to critical incidents and outages.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Expert-level solid understanding of Spring Framework (Java) for backend development in a microservice environment (deep experience with Java and Kotlin).
• Expertise in building (Docker) and management (Kubernetes) tools.
• Deep knowledge of data modeling and management tools (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Looker).
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Experience in writing and advocating for robust testing strategies (unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests), including Behaviour Driven Testing.
• Strong command of DevOps practices (rapid delivery of changes while the service is serving users in production; troubleshooting incidents and outages; end-to-end ownership of the solution).
• Solid understanding of designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Strong exposure to front-end technologies (React framework, JavaScript).
• Experience with database migration tools like Flyway / Liquibase or similar technologies.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to drive complex technical issues to resolution.
• Highly motivated, proactive, self-organized, and an effective technical communicator.
• Good written and spoken communication skills in English.

Preferred

• Excellent documentation skills, especially for architectural and design decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to grasp and clarify ambiguous requirements from conversations with stakeholders.
• Comfortable navigating a dynamic work environment, managing technical context switching, and prioritizing the team’s technical backlog.

Also Expected

• Readiness for short business trips.
• Availability for meetings and collaboration during CET/CEST business hours is a must.
• Readiness for occasional meetings and collaboration during US business hours.

Why join us?

This is a role where your ideas truly matter and will be heard - you will have a high impact on the organization. Another standout perk is the opportunity to heavily upskill in AI; Arrive invests deeply in AI initiatives and trainings to boost engineering workflows.

This is a hybrid position based in Łódź.

About Arrive

Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.