Tech Lead Software Engineering

About the company for Stolt Nielsen:

Stolt-Nielsen is a family-founded global leader in bulk-liquid and chemical logistics, transportation, and storage, known for its commitment to safety, service excellence, and innovation. At the Stolt-Nielsen Digital Innovation Centre, we bring this legacy into the future — building smarter systems, driving digital transformation, and shaping what's next for the world of logistics. Here, you're encouraged to think boldly, challenge convention, and help move today's products toward tomorrow's possibilities.

About the Role:

The Tech Lead Software Engineering plays a critical role in designing and building scalable software systems that solve complex business and technical challenges. In our Tankers business, we are actively modernizing our portfolio of business applications that are at the heart of our operations, such as our business planning applications, our customer and partner portals, financial systems and our interfaces on top of our data and AI products. You will be a key player in driving our digital transformation and developing innovative systems that directly enhance our operations and customer experiences. Our software runs on shore, but also on our ships which introduce interesting technical challenges in terms of connectivity and availability.

You will be part of a global business-led product team that operates with a DevOps mentality. It is a collaborative, diverse, fast-paced environment. The role is hands-on and requires autonomy, innovation, and collaboration, with a strong focus on clean, maintainable, and high-performance code.

You are also responsible for contributing to the overall architecture and strategy of technical systems, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring solutions are aligned with Stolt-Nielsen's business and technical goals.

We take Digital seriously. We invest in our teams through training and mentoring and enable them with the required tools to work in a modern way. As we are further building up our engineering practice, there is ample room for you to contribute, take initiative and shape the future of our ways of working and technology landscape.

What You'll Do:

• Lead design, development, and deployment of software that meets business and technical requirements.
• Define and enforce best practices for software development within and across the team, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Act as the primary liaison between project stakeholders and the engineering team to ensure clarity of objectives.
• Provide mentorship and oversight to junior engineers and encourage growth.
• Facilitate technical discussions and resolve blockers during delivery phases.
• Collaborate with product managers and owners to plan and prioritize technical deliverables.
• Support resource allocation and project timelines while balancing technical scalability goals.
• Leverage domain knowledge to contribute to roadmap design and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Drive innovation by recommending new technologies, frameworks, and tools.
• Take full ownership of deliverables, resolving complex challenges with innovative and reliable solutions.
• Perform additional duties and strategic projects as assigned.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development and system design.
• Proven experience delivering scalable, reliable, and secure software in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with distributed systems, containerization technologies (such as Docker or Kubernetes), and microservices architectures.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Agile delivery.
• Strong analytical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.

Must Have Skills

• Nodejs, Express, Nestjs (TypeScript)
• Angular (TypeScript)
• Azure (PaaS components)
• GIT and basic understanding of CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (we use Azure DevOps)