Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Lead cross-functional teams of software engineers, acting as the link between product and engineering to deliver high-performing, customer-focused software.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and develop cross-functional teams of software engineers, together with the value stream leadership team, product managers, domain architects and other key stakeholders.
• Translate between product and engineering, ensuring teams deliver on what they promise.
• Set teams up for high performance and ensure a clear product plan focused on the right priorities.
• Drive teams to gather feedback from all stakeholders across Backbase and take action where needed.
• Work with both technical and people systems, connecting structures, teams and people, and identifying and filling gaps.
• Act as a technically strong role model, supporting team advancement and being hands-on when needed.
• Help set the team's strategic direction and align engineering initiatives with company goals.
• Support individual engineers' growth and make the organization more productive, functional and innovative.
• Define and promote the team's ways of working, hiring and training strategies.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or similar experience.
• Hands-on software development or engineering experience, of which at least 2 years with people management responsibilities.
• 2+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary Agile development teams (minimum 2 teams of 6-8 engineers).
• Good knowledge and experience with Agile methodology such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Very good understanding of technical practices such as continuous integration, automated testing, release management, performance monitoring, and applicable tooling such as Jira, Confluence and Git.
• Excellent English speaking, writing and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a product company; banking, payments or SaaS experience.
• Experience hiring engineers, defining an ideal team composition, and defining onboarding and training strategies.