R&d Tech Lead

Truphone-Lisboa, Portugal

Truphone creates better connections between people, businesses and things. Since 2006, we have built state-of-the-art SIM software, intuitive management platforms, in-network call recording and a powerful global mobile network.
As an R&D Tech Lead, you will lead a multidisciplinary team focused on strategic and complex technical initiatives. You should be able to analyse, propose and develop technical solutions, and to suggest strategies to unlock your team’s challenges, ensuring that their efforts are always on track with the target objectives. Your technical expertise should be in backend software development, ideally having cellular telecommunications knowledge.
As a senior professional you should be comfortable presenting technical ideas to a wide range of audience, from business to technical professionals. Active listening skills, humility, and ability to reach consensus among experts (while pushing knowledge bubble’ boundaries) are key features. Finally, you should excel in technical writing, clearly describing problems, prior/competitor solutions, concepts, new solutions and architectural visions that clearly convey your ideas.
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What you will do:

  • Technically lead R&D projects and innovation initiatives end to end, from the requirements elicitation and hypothesis formulation to the solution implementation, testing, assessing, and reporting the results;
  • Be the technical lighthouse of your team, with the ability of suggesting solutions to challenges while ensuring that their effort is aligned with the intended goals;
  • Interact with internal and external technical professionals targeting the co-creation and integration of innovative solutions;
  • Represent Truphone in R&D and innovation networking events, presenting your team’s technical solutions;
  • Write technical documentation for reporting projects status, contribute to conceiving novel projects and for dissemination, protection, standardization and exploitation of R&D project results.
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    What you will bring:

  • MSc or PhD in areas that relate with Software Development and/or Telecommunications;

  • Experience in technically leading applied R&D (industry) or strategic multidisciplinary projects in areas that relate with Telecommunications and/or Software Development;
  • Experience in backend software development (Java or Go); REST APIs and Pub/Sub messaging; relational databases, CI/CD flows, Git, and Docker;
  • Demonstrable technical writing skills (e.g. white papers, public reports, scientific papers);
  • Experience with R&D funding frameworks (e.g. implementation of funded R&D projects; contribution to funded R&D proposals);
  • Excellent communication skills (fluent in English, both written and spoken), with public speaking experience (e.g. conference or workshop presentations).

Why Truphone?:

  • Opportunity to work in one of the world's leading innovators in eSIM, cloud and digital solutions;
  • Great team spirit with collaborative, friendly and fun environment;
  • Work from one of the warmest capital cities in Europe, not only famous by the sunny weather but also because of its colorful buildings, great nightlife, fantastic food and friendly people;
  • Permanent and hybrid contract, with flexible working hours;
  • Health Insurance from the start date;
  • Meal allowance paid via Meal Card;
  • Flex benefits, including transportation and more;
  • Access to our internal referral program;
  • Computer and mobile device with 10G of internet;
  • Generous PTO, higher than provided by law, and additional day-offs apart from the usual holidays balance, including your birthday day off.

Truphone is an equal opportunity employer that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work everyday. We support diversity, we are committed to equal and fair treatment; and we embrace our people regardless of how they identify themselves or who they love.

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