Engineering Team Lead (Java Team)

Line manager

Pavel Gorohhovatski, CTO: We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated and wants to grow as a hands on team leader alongside the growth of our products and organization. The more you grow, the more complex tasks you'll receive. This is a great opportunity to become a team member of a rising star in both Estonian startup scene and remote world!

How you’ll contribute to their Engineering Organization:

• Lead Java Team.
• Plan for human resources, conduct interviews and lead overall hiring processes, network and maintain continuous relationships with external talent, make not-so-easy decisions for your team members if/when needed.
• Be responsible for both leading your team (more than %20 of time) and product software development (more than %50 of time).
• People management: Hire, lead by examples and good management practices, and develop internal talent through performance reviews, coaching, frequently providing positive and developmental feedback and course correction.
• Lead exploration, architecture, development through feature teams approach till the final product release of the features you own.
• Lead engineers supporting product manager in defining stories, planning the roadmap and prioritizing tasks.
• Be a Subject Matter Expert for their main technologies and act as ‘go-to-person’ within the team.
• Engage and improve their engineering culture by driving team strengthening activities, cross-team projects, and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Educate members of your team as well as members of other teams in their business (including recording videos for internal consumption.).
• Plan, coordinate and monitor bi-weekly engineering projects and tasks.
• Make sure team progresses according to roadmap.
• Decide, align and communicate engineering priorities to the team members.
• Find roadmap inconsistencies, manage dependencies, help everybody to work more efficiently and keep focus on most important priorities.
• Talk to customers as and when needed.
• Work hands-on: coding by best practice and ensure a high code quality.
• Practice DevOps.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of proven experience as Engineering Team Lead, working with a product engineering teams.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in software development, including architecture definition and design of server-client applications.
• Expert in Java and Spring Frameworks.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems.
• Strongly goal-oriented, pragmatic way of working and a good business sense.
• Demanding and motivating spirit, sense of urgency.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, strength in mentoring.
• Client focused.
• Excellent language skills in English.
• Experience and confidence working remotely and independently as well as collaborating with distributed team members on asynchronous communications.

Company offers

• Onboarding and planning sessions abroad.
• Sports compensation.
• Home office budget.
• Flexible working hours.

Hiring process

• Up to 1-hour interview with the hiring manager.
• Code review (they will provide access to the repository with the deadline of up to 3 days, it might take 2-3 hours to complete).
• Leadership task.
• Meeting a team.
• Reference check before the final offer.