Ergotopia is a fast-growing eCommerce, health and office furniture company. With 50+ highly motivated employees, millions of readers & viewers of our scientifically based health content and 100,000+ satisfied customers of our ergonomics and office furniture products, we have already made a major impact in our vision: create the (working) world "Happy, Healthy & Productive”!

Note: This position can be fulfilled either in Cologne / Darmstadt (here our two offices are located), hybrid in mix of office & home office or fully remote within any place of Germany.

As Lead Developer your role will be as tech-interesting as it gets! You will lead our internal and external development resources, working with a modern and diverse tech-stack while contributing to a happier, healthier and more productive vision of work. Your concrete mission is to further build and expand our two tech worlds of online shop and digital health apps.

Headless eCommerce: Responsibility of our website on tech-side including the in-housing of development projects, working in collaboration with our marketing team in order to enhance performance, conversion and UX of our online shop. With that further development, adjustment and expansion of our Shopware6 / PWA solution together with your team and use of our innovative headless eCommerce tech-stack: vue.js, nuxt.js, node.js and shopware6
Health Management Apps: Development of (corporate) health management apps, as well as enhancement of our brand-new hybrid Ergotopia App that functions with our desk portfolio. Tech-stack includes electron, ionic and angular
People Lead: Leading of our internal tech team and alignment with external development partners
Agility: Introduction and expansion of our agile software development landscape, including SCRUM, Kanban, CI/CD and testing
Impact: Collaboration with our physical product management team to further lift Ergotopias product portfolio on new (digital) levels

You are in hold of an academic background in software development, informatics or similar qualifications
You have gained at least 4+ years of practical experience in the agile development field; eCommerce and start-up background is a plus
You are considering yourself a fullstack developer. HTML, CSS, Javascript, as well as dealing with CI/CD tools and to be well versed in at least one of the modern JS frameworks (ideally VueJS or Angular) are must competencies. Skills in regard to Electron, Ionic, Nuxt.JS and backend frameworks are desirable.
You had ideally touchpoints within the development of hardware & software products in interface (relevant e.g. for development of desk solutions combined with health app)
You are looking forward to leading a team with lean & agile methods
You describe yourself as proactive, sharp minded, analytical and strong in both project management and communication
You strive to have an impact on our vision, being interested in (digital) health solutions
You are business fluent in English and ideally at least proficient in understanding the German language or eager to learn this language skill

With your cooperation you make a contribution to our vision: creating the (working) world "happy, healthy & productive"
Belonging to one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies for ergonomic office supplies in Germany. Internationalization planned!
Plenty of space to design our development landscape from your expertise while business is running live
Flexibility to live your (work) life the way you want it with flexible working hours, remote options and agile working methods
Monthly personal-development-budget and paid development time to simplify the way to knowledge you are interested in
A highly motivated team that stands together to achieve goals everyday. Those are celebrated with regularly team events, by the way!
Open ear for your specific needs to design your perfect work environment
Attractive compensation package

We are looking forward to your application, including:

CV
If possible, work samples