Team Lead Engineer

Are you ready to take the challenge?

We’re looking for a Team Lead Engineer to join our team in Warsaw or remotely.

Sunscrapers is an elite Python development company that helps clients set up dedicated development teams in Poland, made of the most talented, experienced and motivated software engineers.
Since 2010, we’ve been working with ambitious US and European scaleups, SMBs and enterprises on delivering digital products and extending in-house development teams.

We’ve earned our reputation by combining passion for technology, highest quality standards and our unique ‘Product-Developer Fit’ hiring process.

The Project:

The vision of the project is to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with effortless access to the best financing solutions. For this purpose, the project connects SMEs, financial institutions and financing advisors digitally and personally on its unique market platform in order to achieve the best possible financing result in each case.

As Team Lead Engineer you are the connector of business and technology with a pragmatic approach. In tight collaboration with other leaders, engineers, and stake-holders, you focus on developing technical capabilities that achieve great feature development, productivity, system-health and team health primarily.

Your Key Responsibilities

• You are a line manager and a role model of servant leadership implementing autonomy and self-organisation within cross-functional teams
• You are an advocate for observability, monitoring and alerting
• You create a bridge between business and technology by implementing DDD
• By pairing with the product manager and involving the whole cross-functional team you shape quarterly OKRs
• You navigate your team architecture decisions towards our target architecture and have experience in distributed service architecture
• You confidently own and shape the technology and processes befitting a modern tech organisation
• You personally take charge of especially hard blockers, high-level technical initiatives and software-design-related challenges
• You nurture an effective DevOps Culture including “You build it, You run it” together with SREs
• You ensure effective information flow between engineering and our strategic decision-makers
• You address the technical and architectural challenges that impact the quality of our product and speed of delivery

Requirements

What's important for us?

• You have 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• You have worked as a software engineer polyglot with Python and Golang, each at least 4+ years (frontend with React is a plus)
• You have DevOps experience with GitHub, AWS, CI/CD, Docker (Kubernetes is a plus)
• You have experience in leading cross-functional teams with at least 5 engineers
• You have experience working with OKRs, being directly responsible for team performance and deliverables of quarterly goals
• You know how to make data-driven decisions
• You have experience working and decoupling monoliths (familiarity with Django framework is a plus)
• You have very good self-management skills
• You are known as someone who gives great insightful and actionable feedback
• You enjoy pair programming and mentoring
• You have experience with various software architectures and legacy software
• You enjoy planning, teaching, and bringing people together in a hybrid environment
• You seek to handle stressful situations and unknown challenges with both, people and tech
• Be familiar with Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Benefits

What do we offer?

• Culture of teamwork, professional development and knowledge sharing (https://www.youtube.com/user/sunscraperscom)
• Flexible working hours and remote work possibility
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Culture of good feedback: code reviews, evaluation meetings, mentoring.
• Comfortable office in central Warsaw equipped with all the necessary tools for comfortable work (Macbook Pro, external screen, ergonomic chairs) - if working on site
  
  Sounds interesting? Submit your application today and let’s get the ball rolling.