Platform Team Lead

Take control of the growth and strategy for the team developing the core of our product’s back-end. We’re working with an API first approach, which means all features and functionality is provided to applications and front-end implementations. We’re working with tens of millions of transactions every day and performance is a key aspect of getting things done right

You’d need to hire a team and drive the team towards achieving technical excellence through mentorship, professional development, and effective communication. 

Most important, encourage a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• Spend 50% of your time on hands-on backend development, crafting robust, scalable solutions
• Dedicate 50% to team leadership, mentoring, management and driving project success from idea to deployment
• Run team ceremonies, setting daily work goals, ensuring smooth work flow and reaching the goals agreed with the Product organization
• Lead, supervise and motivate employees, perform regular 1:1s with each member of the team
• Organize work process, coordinate and control work actions, ensure the work quality and that tasks are performed on time, including initiative delivery schedules being observed
• Be responsible for the team to understand and follow processes and technologies
  
  Our Stack:
  Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Redis, AWS, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Jira, Confluence

• 3-5 years back-end development experience
• Minimum 1 year experience with leading a team
• Fluent English
• Strong knowledge about agile development methodologies
• Excellent Golang and SQL knowledge, unit testing, integration testing, security testing for code