Backend Software Engineering Team Lead

TL;DR

Backend Software Engineering Team Lead: Leading and mentoring a development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture with an accent on software development best practices, code quality, and architecture. Focus on driving the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.

Location: Remote

Company

Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a talented development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture.
• Participate in high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems.
• Drive the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output.
• Manage team members' performance and career development.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend technologies (e.g. Java, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation
• Strong experience in software architecture and designing scalable, reliable systems
• Hands-on experience in backend development, with expertise in APIs and microservices
• Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to manage and collaborate within a remote, diverse team
• A passion for technology and innovation, with a drive to solve complex technical challenges

Culture & Benefits

• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
• Top of the line equipment
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Hiring process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
• Offline Take home assignment
• Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
• Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)