Backend Software Engineering Team Lead
Remote
Job Summary
Lead and mentor a talented development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture while providing technical leadership for best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture. Participate in high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems using Java 17, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and AWS. Drive the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions through regular code reviews and constructive feedback. Manage team members' performance and career development while helping drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, and techniques. Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- Strong focus in backend technologies (e.g. Java, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role
- Experience in mentoring
- Experience in performance reviews
- Experience in work allocation
- Strong experience in software architecture
- Designing scalable, reliable systems
- Hands-on experience in backend development
- Expertise in APIs
- Expertise in microservices
- Excellent communication skills in English
- Ability to manage and collaborate within a remote, diverse team
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