Technical Lead

Summary As Tech Lead, you will be the first employee of Inviqa in India with a goal to expand the team as project demands dictate. You will work within a highly distributed, remote first engineering team who are located across the world (UK, Germany, Hungary and India). As a Tech Lead, you will be hands on in delivering work on various existing or new projects and you will be the authority in the standards, processes and quality of work delivered by you and your growing team in India. Your industry experience will predominately come from a backend software engineering background working in a mixed team of frontend (or full stack) engineers, backend engineers, devops, QA specialist and experience designers. Inviqa’s software engineering stack is focused on the following specialist areas, which you should have demonstrable experience with. Expertise in everything is not required, however an ability to champion, grow and evolve our modern engineering stack is a must:

• ReactJS, NextJS, Remix
• Node (Express), Python (Django and Flask)
• AWS & Azure Administration
• For our legacy projects we use PHP

For commerce website we use Shopify For content management we use ContentStack For product information management we use Akeneo A few of our legacy projects use Drupal 10 CMS (some of these projects will require support but we do not plan to expand on this technology beyond our current clients)Key Areas of Responsibilities and Skills As Tech lead, you will perform the following type of work:

• You will estimate the effort and timings of the technical aspects of projects.
• You will often need to converse with clients to clarify requirements and attend regular internal and client facing project planning meetings and actively participate in those meetings, document requirements and define technical approaches.
• You will learn and adopt Inviqa’s established software engineering standards and processes and ensure they are adopted by your team as it grows over time.
• Where established processes and standards and can improved, we would expect you to proactively be the architect of change, exerting your influence to drive continuous improvement in technical processes and standards.
• You will be hands on, delivering software and therefore proficient in the programming languages and frameworks that Inviqa use. We don’t expect you to be a deep expert in every single language and framework we use but we expect demonstrate growth mindset and expertise in at least some of the tech stack we use.
• We don’t expect you to an expert in all the vendor platforms we use (as mentioned above), however a willingness to learn and grow skills in those platforms is a must if you do know some of our vendor platforms this would be very beneficial.
• You are adept at systems integration, which can often require the development of APIs, ETL processes and the use of API management systems and iPaaS solutions.
• We expect you to actively keep up to date on the latest developments in the field of software engineering, especially in the programming languages and frameworks we use at Inviqa (see above)
• You have a personal passion for innovation, learning and curiosity in the latest developments in tech such as Generative AI solutions or other areas as they emerge and be ready to get your hands dirty to try new technologies.

About Inviqa Inviqa is a leading, full service digital Agency focused on Software Engineering, Systems Integration and Experience Design. We are known for our expertise in developing direct to consumer eCommerce websites, website development with leading headless content management systems and low-code solutions and we help brands improve product information management using leading PIM platforms. We’re an established company, acquired by the HAVAS Group in 2022. HAVAS is one of the top five largest marketing and adverting groups in the world. We are head quartered in London, UK, with other locations in Germany, Hungary and India. About Havas Founded in 1835 in Paris, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications networks, with more than 22,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model through its 70+ Havas Villages around the world, covering all communication activities. The teams of the three business units, Havas Creative Network, Havas Media Network and Havas Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer tailor-made, innovative solutions to clients that support them in their positive transformation. Havas is committed to building a diverse culture where everybody feels they belong and can be themselves and thrive. Havas integrated into Vivendi, a global leader in media, entertainment, and communications, in December 2017. Further information about Havas is available at About Havas Creative Network India Havas Creative Network India is the conglomerate of creative agencies and home to some of the most talented people in the disciplines of creativity, strategy, design, experiential, content, PR, CX and UX. Our extensive in-house capabilities across all communication disciplines and best-in-class partners allow it to create custom, purpose-built solutions that help drive clients’ businesses. Its ethos and philosophy are firmly within the global framework Meaningful Brands through which we make Meaningful Difference to consumers. It includes Havas Worldwide India (Creative), Havas CX India (customer experience), Havas People India (talent communication), Think Design (UI/UX), Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale). For more information, visit & follow @HavasCreativeIN on social media.