Tech Lead Java - Backend Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d)

Customer Growth and E-Commerce Teams

The Customer Growth Domain is expanding and undergoing an ambitious Transformation. We are pivoting from local smaller teams to a global organization. This will enable us to deliver the technological (Scaling an Event Driven Architecture, Micro-Services, Headless) and organizational (Agility at scale, High performing Teams and pivot from feature to product teams) transformation and help us achieve our objectives.

Customer Growth provides best-in-class seamless customer identification and connection to the Decathlon ecosystem. We are responsible for developing customer 360 knowledge and lead the business through personalized lifecycle activation & management.

Our vision is to: “Drive customer growth and retention at scale through seamless and personalized relationships, across the whole Decathlon sports and commerce ecosystem”. To help us transform and build engineering excellence we are looking for a Tech Lead to join the team in designing interfaces, reusable components, help our engineers grow and thrive, at scale, securely, robustly, data driven, at required pace and compliant to our high standards.

Operating at a massive scale, this team orchestrates transactional communications for a global audience of hundreds of millions of end-users, distributing billions of messages across multiple channels in 75+ countries

Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Engineering Manager of the team, you will be responsible for designing, building and shipping software. Right from prototyping and designing functional code to coding and testing. You take ownership of the software until it is handed over to the client. Our aim is to enable features to be created on a larger scale, faster and with a higher quality than any other company in the sector. You will be part of a team of 5 people and contribute to deliver on objectives.

• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company's values.


• Applying software engineering principles to analyze and problem-solve, and design a solution


• Developing and executing project plans


• Creating technical specifications


• Designing and developing test cases


• Adopting Agile methodologies to develop software


• Analyzing existing systems to provide recommendations for improvement


• Ensuring proper documentation


• Monitoring system performance and performing predictive maintenance


• Performing system risk and reliability analysis


• Assessing new technologies before adoption and implementation

What You Need to be Successful

• 7+ years of experience as a Java developer.


• Strong knowledge of Spring/SpringBoot framework, containers (Docker/Docker Compose), and Kafka ecosystem.


• Deep understanding of software development best practices (microservices architecture, design patterns, testable code, BDD/TDD).


• Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers.


• Experience with Kubernetes as a developer.


• Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs and SDKs.

What We Offer

• A great office based in Amsterdam and Lille


• Free choice of work tool (Mac, Windows)


• Local project team and sharing with the global network (international career path)


• Skills development and mentoring (diversity of projects, languages and technologies, certification, events)


• Possibility of certification in the first year (AWS, GCP, etc.)


• Internal and external training


• Employee shareholding


• Monthly and quarterly bonuses

DECATHLON DIGITAL CONTEXT 

What if technology allowed us to push the boundaries and take sports experiences to new levels? That's exactly our goal at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of 5,000+ experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud, and cybersecurity, distributed across Paris, Lille, and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging tech innovation from design to value chain optimization, connected experiences and product second life.

Changing the game for good. We are in this for the love of sports. And like everything we love, we want it to last. That’s why we are embarking on a journey to create a more sustainable tech model, reducing our direct environmental impact while maintaining a safe, diverse, and inclusive space for all our people to learn and thrive together. Team up with us to design the digital future of sports.