A Day in the Life:

Come join us in our effort to digitally transform Hertz! Innovations such as smartphones, IOT, electric vehicles, and ride-hailing apps have created new and exciting opportunities in transportation that Hertz is uniquely positioned to capitalise on. 

We are looking for an experienced software engineering Lead to join our team, if you enjoy working with the latest technologies, large volumes of data, and robust reliability in production at scale, this could be the role for you. The tech lead who will modernise Hertz’s tech stack and, in the process, ship delightful products to meet the ever-increasing demands of our customers.

Our teams are small and agile, and there is a startup feel to the work we do, with plenty of room to innovate. You'll be involved in leading the integration initiatives for the Hertz Telematics & Connectivity Hub project, including working with different engineers to help them shape their API designs for our use cases.  This is a Tech Lead role, with plenty of hands-on engineering required, and with lots of room to grow.

What You’ll Do:

Run daily stand-up meetings with the engineering team. Participate in additional scrum meetings such as planning sessions and retrospectives, with the engineering team and Product Manager. Help mentor engineering team members, and ensure they are not blocked from completing their sprint tasks. Ensure all team members have tasks assigned to them. Work on estimates and technical architecture designs for our new features. Work closely with the Product Manager on sprint priorities. Do code reviews. Take the lead on developing features: this is a hands-on role that will require ~70% coding time. Collaborate with the other Team Leaders to help one another to align on engineering best-practices and product deliveries. Work directly with the Director of Software Engineering on innovative projects using the latest tech at scale!

What We’re Looking For:

Leadership, innovation & taking initiative, the Tech Lead should be able to see what we are doing and what we are missing with our integrations and describe the steps to get where we need to be, and the resources needed to do that.  Experience in leading software engineering teams required, ideally in a scrum environment working with other engineers and product managers. Self organised, and experienced with processes & top level communication through Jira, IMs and other remote working coordination & communication methods. Strong coding experience required, using Java, Typescript, or Python. Experience monitoring APIs, for health, usage & rate-limiting, and potential new products or use-cases based on customer usage. AWS Lambda experience is desirable. CloudFormation & CDK experience desirable, but AWS knowledge & experience is a must. Familiarity with common cloud architectural patterns. Scripting, build & automation tools, for example bash, pip, Python, Node, Typescript, JavaScript, Docker & Jenkins experience are important, this is not an exclusive list and other tools are welcome. Experience automating software testing, versioning, releases, deployments & rollbacks in AWS using Jenkins or GitHub Actions. Linux knowledge & bash scripting experience is desirable. Source control experience with Git & ideally GitHub Enterprise. Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success. Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and time-management skills. Team player, interpersonal and communication skills. Be happy to work with a diverse, distributed team.

Desired qualifications:

BSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualification or experience AWS certifications are a plus

What You’ll Strive For:

Delivery of key features from our quarterly product roadmaps. Mentor your team to build a high-velocity squad with a delivery focus. Maintain high code test coverage and overall quality focus. Innovate our technology to ensure we are using the latest tech and methodologies. Deliver business value via features that aim to automate the management of our massive fleet.

Hertz is an equal opportunity employer, all applicants must have the legal right to work in Ireland (Valid EU Passport / Relevant Visa).
 

What You’ll Get:

Employee Friends & Family rental discount (40% discount for employee & partner; 30% discount for up to 8 additional family/friends)  Hybrid/flexible working arrangements 22 days holidays on hire rising to 27 days with service. Occupational Pension Scheme with up to 5% company matched contribution.  Life Cover payable at 4 times base salary.  Profit Share Scheme Tuition support plus access to compressive online learning platform 10 days paid study leave & paid exam leave where exams fall during work hours.  Income protection for long term illness  Professional membership fees paid in full annually where membership relates directly to role.  Bike to Work & Travel Pass schemes. Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family Occupational Health support  Christmas savings scheme