Engineering Team Lead

As Engineering Team Lead, you lead, coach, and develop best-in class cross-functional teams of software engineers, together with the value stream leadership team, product managers, domain architects, and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• You are the essential link between product and engineering, translating between the two worlds, and ensuring your teams deliver what they promise.
• You make sure that the teams are set up for high performance, have a clear product plan that focuses on the right priorities, and delivers software that exceeds the expectations of our customers.
• You actively drive the team to get feedback from all stakeholders across Backbase and where needed you will take action.
• In your role, you have to deal with both technical and people systems; you connect structures, teams, and people, holding them together, but also identify and fill gaps where needed.
• You are a technically strong role model to help your team advance and develop, while being hands-on when needed.
• You are responsible for and help the teams set out the strategic direction.
• You align engineering initiatives with company goals, helping engineers understand how their work connects to the bigger picture.
• You support individual engineers’ growth, help teams become successful, make the organization more productive, functional, and innovative.
• Along with leading and growing the team, you define and promote the team’s ways of working, hiring, and training strategies.

Requirements

• ● Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or similar experience;
• ● hands-on software development/engineering experience, of which at least 2 years with people management responsibilities;
• ● 2+ years of experience in leading multi-disciplinary Agile development teams (minimum 2 teams of 6 - 8 engineers), preferably in a product company and banking, payments and SaaS experience is a plus ;
• ● Good knowledge and experience with Agile methodology like scrum or kanban;
• ● Experience hiring engineers, defining an ideal team composition and defining onboarding/training strategies is a plus;
• ● Very good understanding of technical practices like continuous integration, automated testing, release management, performance monitoring and applicable tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Git, etc;
• ● Excellent English speaking, writing and presentation skills;

Preferred

• ●Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or similar experience.