Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Our engineering organization is built with small, cross-functional teams where Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers work side by side to solve customer problems.  Each team owns a part of our business and takes care of it, from feature ideas to usage analysis.

We are looking for an experienced engineer who would like to grow as a people leader. Engineering Team Leads at SmartRecruiters spend around 50% of their time managing people and collaborating with stakeholders and 50% of their time designing and building products. Team Leads represent their teams externally, help others grow, and ensure the team's discovery and delivery work runs smoothly.

What will you do:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Designers on building the next-generation product
• Oversee roadmap discovery and delivery
• Take ownership of the designated services
• Drive engineering excellence inside the team
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Contribute to a full life-cycle of the product (including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption)
• Develop and maintain scalable, robust services using Java

Qualifications

• While not strictly required, we see most of our Team Leaders have 7+ years of professional experience
• Experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed web-based systems
• Experience in supporting end-to-end product lifecycle (from product discovery, solutioning, system design, implementation, production rollout, and optimization)
• Passion for supporting team members in their career growth
• Excellent technical project management and communication skills
• Good understanding of agile processes and techniques
• Good command of Java, Spring similar programming language (Kotlin…) 
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Databases and PostgreSQL 
• Strong domain modeling skills - including refactoring existing domains
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.