Backend Software Engineering Team Lead

About the role 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. 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 What you'll be doing - 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 What you'll bring - 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 What’s in it for you - Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability - 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 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) If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! 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. Originally posted on Himalayas