The Impact You’ll Have
As a Team Lead, Engineering at Deel, you will lead a cross-functional team of 6-10 professionals, with a balance of leadership (50%) and hands-on technical work (50%). You will drive technical excellence, mentor your team, and deliver scalable, innovative solutions in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
Get Ready To
- Lead with Technical and Team Excellence:
- Serve as a technical leader, combining hands-on development with strategic oversight.
- Design, code, and deliver high-quality, scalable applications with Node.js
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance, fostering growth and skill development within the team.
- Ensure best practices in development, testing, and deployment.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high coding standards.
- Elevate Team Effectiveness:
- Collaborate closely with product and design teams to create extraordinary user experiences.
- Drive technical planning and execution, balancing short-term objectives with long-term system health.
- Promote Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and effectiveness.
- Strategize and Execute for Impact:
- Define and implement technical strategies in alignment with organizational goals.
- Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem-solving.
- Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Build Teams and Foster Culture:
- Play an active role in hiring and scaling the teams.
- Manage performance cycles, provide structured feedback, and support the professional growth of team members.
- Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and engineering excellence.
- Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless alignment.
- Coordinate efforts across teams to drive complex projects and ensure shared objectives are met.
- Resolve complex, multi-team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across disciplines.
Must-have (non-negotiable technical bar)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals:
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles
- Experience designing maintainable, scalable systems
- Ability to write clean, structured, and testable code
- Strong SQL skills:
- Ability to write complex queries from scratch
- Deep understanding of data structures and query performance/impact
- Experience working with APIs and distributed systems:
- Debugging integrations and system interactions
- Understanding data flow across services
- Strong problem-solving ability:
- Root cause analysis across code, data, and systems
- Experience working in production environments:
- Handling incidents, debugging issues, and managing escalations