Engineering Team Lead

Your challenge:

• Lead and coordinate the development of a key component of our SaaS product, ensuring its high quality, and timely delivery.
• Oversee the complete technical aspects of the owned functionality, from analysis through implementation to production.
• Drive the development process within the team and continually improve it.
• Take a hands-on approach in writing code, its testing, debugging and tuning, to deliver new features and their improvements.
• Design, develop, and maintain back-end systems heavily interfacing with data sources via SQL, utilizing the powerful jOOQ library, and therefore mainly using Java and Kotlin, commonly with Spring Boot; deploying with containers orchestrated through Kubernetes, on top of public clouds.
• Provide robust solutions supporting both technical and business-oriented users in development of rules and checks maintaining Data Quality across their whole data landscape.
• Work with modern cloud database, warehouse, data lake, lakehouse, and analytical platforms, leveraging their capabilities to evaluate Data Quality efficiently at a big scale.
• Integrate with our data processing framework and contribute to our native data processing engine.
• Implement unit, integration, contract, performance testing and other strategies and approaches to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand product requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Take ownership of features and components from the design phase through the production deployment up to operational support.
• Engage in code reviews, offering constructive feedback in a supportive and collaborative manner to help the team improve and grow.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of each team member, including their career opportunities, preferences, technical expertise, and other skills, utilizing the company-wide GPS framework.
• Plan and monitor team capacity, making decisions regarding the recruitment of new team members.
• Collaborate closely with other team leaders, engineering and product managers, and circle leaders.

Is this you?

• Motivated to lead a small team, enhance productivity, and support individual development.
• You have proven experience in backend development with Java or Kotlin.
• You thrive on tackling complex data-oriented problems and enjoy application of research done by you or your colleagues to produce efficient solutions.
• You have a passion for building secure cloud SaaS applications.
• You have a desire to improve your understanding of modern database technologies and data management systems, and how they are implemented.
• Learning and sharing knowledge with others is something you genuinely enjoy.
• You are unafraid to take ownership of end-to-end software engineering and operations competency.

Our General Tech Stack:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, GraphQL, jOOQ
• Storage: Aurora, Postgres, Elastic, Minio
• Infrastructure: GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Apollo, Nx, MobX..
• Big Data: Spark, Redshift, Snowflake