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 people's 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.
You’ll 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 company’s 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 squad’s 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.