Team Lead, Engineering (Backend)

Location: Vilnius or Kaunas, Lithuania; hybrid workplace

Salary: €4,500–€7,500 gross per month

Company

hirify.global is a technology partner for HomeToGo, supporting a SaaS-enabled vacation-rental marketplace with millions of offers from thousands of partners across more than 30 countries.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a Consumer Product engineering team.
• Improve product delivery processes and implement common engineering best practices.
• Drive technical strategies and initiatives that improve data-processing efficiency and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business requirements and deliver reliable data on time.
• Address technical challenges related to scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and priorities while fostering continuous improvement.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or Java, with relevant framework experience.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as MariaDB or PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles for scalable applications.
• Experience with agile projects, setting KPIs, and defining and executing OKRs.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder-collaboration skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to keep the team focused on key initiatives while maintaining operational excellence.
• Fluency in Lithuanian and English.

Culture & Benefits

• Growth opportunities, promotions, 360-degree feedback, performance evaluations, and mentoring.
• Empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy, quarterly transparency about company goals, and a focus on work-life balance.
• Health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, and office perks.
• Frequent team-building activities, company events, and business trips to Berlin.