About the job
Full-time · [City / Remote] · Reports to the [CTO / VP Engineering]
You lead a team of [6–10] backend and frontend engineers. You hire them, grow them, and
make sure they ship the right things at a steady pace.
Requirements
What you'll do
- Lead a team working in Rails, Go, Vue and React.
- Hire: define the role, run interviews, close candidates and onboard them.
- Hold weekly 1:1s, give clear feedback, set growth plans and run performance reviews.
- Plan delivery with product: break down the roadmap, commit to realistic dates, and
- flag risks early.
- Own how the team works: planning, code review standards, releases and incident
response.
- Balance features against tech debt, reliability and security, together with the Solution
Architect.
- Track team health with a few metrics, such as deployment frequency, lead time and
change failure rate, and act on them.
- Stay technical: review designs, join incident calls, and pick up small tickets when it
unblocks the team
What you need
- 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers directly.
- A background as a backend or full-stack engineer. Rails, Go or modern frontend
experience helps you earn trust.
- Teams you have hired for and built, juniors you grew into seniors, and
underperformance you handled fairly.
- Projects delivered on time across several teams and dependencies.
- Scrum or Kanban experience, without process for its own sake.
- Clear communication with engineers, product and executives, in writing and in
person.
Nice to have
- Managed managers, or a team of 10+.
- Grew a team at a startup or scale-up.
- Fintech, payments or marketplace products.
- Owned an engineering or cloud budget.
Benefits
What we offer
- Medical insurance for you and your family.
- [Remote / hybrid] work and flexible hours.
- yearly budget for leadership training and conferences.