Kuvaus
Type: Full-time, permanent
Location: Aleksanterinkatu 15, 00100 Helsinki, Hybrid
Application DL: 25.5.2025
Ritchie Bros, the worlds largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles, is looking for three Tech Leads to join their forces!
Ritchie Bros is in a rapid growth phase and on the path to transforming and modernizing their Rbauction website and its technical architecture. They are growing their highly skilled technical team in Helsinki and this is where your input and skills will be needed!
What will you be doing?
As a Tech Lead, you will join the Helsinki-based engineering office and work in a smaller, dedicated team focusing on one of the Rbauction domains. Your team will consist of a few software engineers, a QA engineer, and an Engineering Manager, and the teams main objective is to modernize and build the dedicated product domain and collaborate with US-based project teams.
In this role, you will be responsible for leading technical execution and acting as a key technical partner to the Engineering Manager. You will participate in implementing the full-stack web experience and leverage the best development practices.
You’ll champion code and architectural quality, and implement strategies to safely and reliably make changes to production when needed. You will identify risks, resolve performance and scalability issues, and collaborate closely with the UX/UI department, designers, product managers, developers, and other internal stakeholders to deliver compelling and efficient products. You and the whole team will contribute to the complete fullstack functionality of the Rbauction website.
In addition to technical ownership, you will support the Engineering Manager in coaching and developing the team, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
In short, your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
– Working within your product team to develop a sustainable, performant, and well-designed suite of products that meet RB Global technical standards
– Drive the adoption of designs and assist others to meet technical and business goals
– Develop and publish new technical standards across the organization and drive the adoption of those standards
-Partnering with the Engineering Manager to build skill sets within the team and support individual growth
– Ensuring the team has the necessary technical direction, support and tools to achieve their mission
What makes you a great fit?
This could be a perfect opportunity for a software professional now wanting to take the next step into a senior and leadership-oriented role, as we do not require prior experience in managerial or lead roles. However, we highly value strong motivation to lead technically, coach and motivate others in software development and willingness to continuously improve the way the team works.
We hope you are proficient in software development with at least 4 years of professional experience, and solid skills in backend development with Java and Spring Boot and frontend development with JavaScript frameworks such as Next.js and React. You can be stronger on the backend side, but we value genuine interest and willingness to work also on frontend development together with the team.
The auction software is built with the following technologies and frameworks, but we dont expect you to have experience with all of them: Java, Java Spring Boot, Jacoco, Next.js, React, Nx, Jest, CircleCI, Playwright, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS), CodeClimate, Snyk, GitHub, Spotbugs, Vault, AWS, OpenSearch, DynamoDB.
Ritchie Bros offers you:
– Possibility to join a global and financially stable organization that has the benefits of a smaller company, while providing stability and career development opportunities
– An influential Tech Lead role with the opportunity to shape technical direction and support your teams growth
– A key role in the transformation and modernization of the auction website, supported by experienced colleagues – in this role, youll have an actual impact on the result
– Company culture that fosters coaching and mentoring, and emphasizes the importance of well-led development teams
– Comfortable working community People at Ritchie Bros are highly engaged and long careers speak for themselves
– Great office location in the heart of Helsinki, but flexibility for remote work too
– Fringe benefits such as lunch and sports & culture benefit
– An annual bonus of up to 7,5 % of the yearly salary
We hope you have:
– Relevant degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering or equivalent
– Minimum of 4 years of experience in software development, ideally focusing on web-based fullstack development
– Strong technical expertise in Java backend development, with a focus on Spring Boot. JavaScript-based frontend frameworks (such as Next.js and React), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
– Leadership mindset and supportive approach to coaching team members
– Strong communication and problem-solving skills combined with an ability to work in a multicultural team
– Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English
Practicalities:
In this full-time and permanent position, you will be employed directly by Ritchie Bros. The start time in the role is as soon as possible. Ritchie Bros has an office in the heart of Helsinki, and we hope you are willing to visit the Helsinki office on a weekly basis to meet your team and colleagues. As you will be working with the US-based teams and projects, we hope you have the flexibility to participate in meetings at around 5-7 pm Finnish time when needed. The base salary in this position ranges between 4500-5000 €/month depending on your experience and will be negotiated individually.
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