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TechLead-Story: Karl Heinz Struggl, CTO at BYTEPOETS

Karl Heinz Struggl

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Team

Size and Roles:

  • Three development teams with approximately five to seven members each.
  • Each team includes developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and loosely assigned UI/UX design specialists.
  • Teams are cross-functional, promoting knowledge exchange and skill diversification.

Organizational Structure:

  • Adopts agile development methods, aiming for self-organized teams.
  • Facilitates scalability and provides an organizational framework throughout the company.

Distinctive Aspects:

  • Fosters a familial and appreciative culture with open communication.
  • Features a flat hierarchy, promoting a feedback-rich environment and team motivation.

Recruiting

Integration in Recruiting Process:

  • Team members are consistently involved from profiling to hiring and onboarding.
  • Emphasizes mandatory meetups with potential team members.

Onboarding Procedure:

  • New employees receive a welcome package with state-of-the-art work tools.
  • Day one includes orientation on HR topics and account setup with the Scrum Master.
  • Subsequent days involve introductions, project overviews, and immediate integration into the development process.
  • Newcomers are supported by experienced team members and Scrum Masters, promoting a smooth start.

Qualities Beyond Technical Skills:

  • Values social competencies alongside technical skills.
  • Emphasizes a good fit in terms of both technical and social aspects during hiring decisions.

Technologies

Technical Challenges:

  • Diverse projects create challenges in maintaining a technological focus on tools and stacks.

Technologies in Use:

  • Mobile apps predominantly developed natively for iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin, Java).
  • Current projects involve Flutter and Dart, with previous experience in Ionic.
  • Backends utilize a Spring Boot stack, often with Kotlin.
  • Frontends implemented with React or Angular.
  • Utilizes various SQL or NoSQL databases, Docker, and more.

Evolution of Technology:

  • Language shifts from Java to Kotlin and Objective-C to Swift in mobile development.
  • Increasing consideration of cross-platform technologies in the mobile domain.
  • Server-side technologies evolved from PHP, Laravel, Ruby to Spring and Kotlin.

Technologies in this article

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