Team Lead Engineer (Python)

Team working hours

Europe's timezones.

Backend Engineer responsibilities

• Lead a team of professionals, backend, frontend and QA engineers.
• Collaborate with Founders and Product Team to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Represent the team in any meetings (product grooming with CTO and product designer, sprint planning).
• Coordinate the team when working on complex tasks involving multiple people, making sure everyone is on the same page and working towards the common goal.
• Help produce and execute. You should be helping solve problems the team needs help solving and remove blocks if any.
• Help the team exceed their goals and potential. Provide technical and personal leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Provide architectural guidelines and lead product and features design/re-design, delivering code alongside the team you lead.
• Guarantee product and code quality (utilizing best practices like code review, automated testing, CI/CD.).
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.

Backend Engineer requirements

• Significant professional experience (3+ years) with Python, SQL, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery. JavaScript (React) knowledge is a big plus.
• Experience in managing a team of at least 3 people.
• At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.
• Understanding how to develop complex products work. e.g., race conditions, and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
• Ability to use GitLab.

We offer

• You can work remotely from where you live (except the countries under sanctions) & countries more eastern than GMT+5.
• After 1 year in our Yerevan office, we can submit your documents for U.S. L1B work visa.
• Or we can sponsor your relocation to another country, chosen by you, if during half a year with us both sides are happy.