Team Lead

Position Title: Team Lead

Structural Unit: Engineering

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Working Conditions:

• Works in the Office/Remote

• Official five working days

Role Overview

Each tribe is composed of squads (typically 5-10 engineers) that focus on delivering features and services in their corresponding technical domain.

The Team Lead is accountable for the technical and operational leadership of the squad. While continuing to foster a collaborative and supportive work culture this role places strong emphasis on peoples management technical leadership and ownership architectural direction innovation and reliable delivery.

The Team Lead is a hands-on Technical Leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong leadership delivery drive system ownership and collaboration skills. This role bridges the gap between technical strategy and day-to-day execution driving engineering excellence guiding the team in building scalable and performant solutions and ensuring alignment with product goals and architectural standards.

Youll be both a mentor and a maker leading by example in code quality design and decision-making while empowering your team to deliver impactful reliable and well-crafted software.

Duties and Responsibilities

Engineering People Management

• Participate in the recruitment process with a focus on both technical proficiency and cultural fit.

• Guide and mentor engineers to close technical skill gaps and build delivery capabilities aligned with business goals.

• Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1s and performance reviews focused on evaluating and growth of technical skill sets such as code quality system design thinking and problem-solving.

• Foster a psychologically safe collaborative and technically curious team environment.

• Manage scheduling time off

• Organize and participate in on-call rotations and app support to maintain service continuity.

• Develop and motivate engineers through clear growth plans ensuring clarity accountability and follow-ups.

• Ensure the team consistently delivers roadmap items in alignment with the companys vision and mission.

• Measure team effectiveness using agreed metrics

• Related duties as assigned

Foster a Sustainable & Scalable Engineering Culture

• Spend up to 50% of the time leading engineering coding and delivering practices by example. Including technologies such as C# .NET NodeJS PHP Go Groovy Angular React Java JavaScript and various libraries and with tools platforms systems such as: Jira Confluence Jenkins BitBucket SonarQube Grafana NPM WildFly Jetty Nginx Kafka ActiveMQ Ubuntu Playwright RestAssured and AWS which may be added to or changed per the business requirements.

• Define and drive the technical vision standards and best practices for respective domain architecture performance and maintainability.

• Remain hands-on leading by example in coding design and code reviews.

• Serve as the technical owner of the squads systems and applications ensuring long-term reliability scalability testability and maintainability.

• Collaborate with other teams to design and evolve system interfaces data contracts and application flows.

• Balance innovation with practicality by making architectural decisions that support immediate delivery and long-term sustainability.

• Champion engineering best practices clean code modular design semantic versioning observability and CI/CD automation.

• Ensure adherence to SDLC principles in close partnership with Scrum Master Product QA Delivery and Architects.

• Manage and prioritize technical debt codebase health and aging risk.

• Drive adoption of technical enablers such as:

• Technical designs

• Code reviews

• Semantic versioning

• Branching strategies

• Static analysis tools

• CI/CD automation

• Testing and automation frameworks

• Monitoring observability and alerting

• And other as agreed in the engineering vertical

• Ensure systems meet regulatory and compliance standards from technical perspective

• Input into framework & language choice development build and deployment tooling

• Ensure backlog includes a healthy balance of new features and operational work respecting SLA commitments

• Related duties as assigned
  

Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement

• Lead planning estimation and prioritization of technical tasks ensuring timely high-quality deliverables.

• Contribute directly to coding reviews and debugging to ensure consistent standards.

• Collaborate with QA Architects Product DevOps and other teams to deliver high-quality testable and reliable software

• Analise team effectiveness using agreed metrics

• Lead technical expertise in incident management root cause analysis post incident decisions and oversee any remedial work is carried out.

• Set high standards in code reviews refactoring test automation and architecture decisions.

• Promote innovation technical experimentation and internal knowledge sharing.

• Ensure Definition of Done is achieved including documentation testing and observability.

• Related duties as assigned

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders ensuring technical decisions are clearly communicated and well understood.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers Architects and Engineering Managers to shape project goals technical roadmaps and delivery strategies.

• Represent the technical domain discipline in tribe-level planning design discussions and architecture reviews.

• Communicate technical trade-offs risks and dependencies transparently.

• Related duties as assigned

Qualifications

Working Experience:

• 6 years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role.

• Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale application;

• Experience working with high-performant SaaS products;

• Experience working with cross functional teams in a technology domain.

• Experience in developing and maintaining systems in the corresponding technical domain

• Hands-on technical experience with technical enablers: CI/CD pipelines code versioning and delivery code quality tools observability and others.

Standard Qualifications:

• Good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies;

• Proficiency with Atlassian tools (especially JIRA & Confluence);

• Advanced level of English Language.

Technical Competences

This part should be per team/squad

It should be equivalent to senior level technical competences requirement

Personal Attributes

• Strong leadership

• Strong mentorship that develops others and promotes knowledge sharing.

• Technical excellence and a hands-on approach

• Ownership accountability and delivery focus

• Initiative vision and proactive problem-solving

• Empathy resilience and the ability to make tough decisions

• Effective communicator with solid negotiation and presentation skills

• Analytical fast-thinking and structured reasoning

• Strong adaptability that responds well to change and balances competing priorities.

• Strong organizational and time management skills

Career Path

• Engineering Manager;

• Head of Engineering;

• Solutions Architect;

• Lead Architect;

• Director of Engineering.