As the Team Lead for our software development team, you will play a key role in driving the architecture, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will lead a group of talented developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical innovation, and strong delivery results. Your responsibilities will encompass both hands-on coding and line management, helping the team grow, improve, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a talented development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture
- Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture
- Participate in high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems
- Drive the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output
- Manage team members' performance and career development
- Help drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, and techniques
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend technologies (e.g. Java, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation
- Strong experience in software architecture and designing scalable, reliable systems
- Hands-on experience in backend development, with expertise in APIs and microservices
- Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to manage and collaborate within a remote, diverse team
- A passion for technology and innovation, with a drive to solve complex technical challenges
Benefits
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
Additional details
- Our Stack: Language: Java 17; Frameworks: Spring Boot (Tomcat, Netty), Spring Data, Spring Cloud; Architecture: Microservices, REST API, Message Queues; Database: MySQL, MyBatis, MongoDB; Caching: Redis (AWS ElastiCache), ElasticSearch; Message Queue: RocketMQ; Cloud: Kubernetes, AWS; Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTracing; CI/CD: Jenkins, ArgoCD
- Interview Process: Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team; Offline Take home assignment; Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins); Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
- Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours
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