Aircall is hiring a
Engineering Team Lead

Summary

The job is for a remote Team Leader position in Aircall's Auth & Internal API Team based in Portugal. The role involves leading the design, development, deployment, and operation of critical features, ensuring operational excellence, re-architecting the current system, and more.

Requirements

• Must have solid working experience in Node.js, Typescript & microservices
• 10+ years experience in Software development, including minimum 3 years in similar team lead positions
• Solid experience in building & operating real-time, cloud based and scalable architecture (preferably AWS)
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs
• A track record of successfully leading, delivering, and evolving large technical projects
• Achieving results, solving difficult technical challenges and anticipating technical problems ahead of time
• The ability and proven desire to successfully collaborate and communicate across teams to drive projects to completion balancing goals between tech and product
• Success with mentoring, teaching, coaching, and collaborating with engineers
• Previous experience in project and end to end delivery management within an agile organization with a DevOps culture, and familiarized with the usage of tools oriented to agile development
• Excellent communication, negotiation, analytical, ownership and people management skills
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

Responsibilities

• Design, development, deployment and operation of critical features that add customer value on top of the security
• Maintaining the operational excellence and re-architecting our current system for better reliability, efficiency and quality
• Together with PM, Architecture & Staff Engineers drive the design and iterative execution of the roadmap
• Together with PM & Engineering leadership, work on the cost/value estimation to define priority and sequence blocks in the roadmap
• Promote a Devops mindset and ensure our teams are always architecting and building towards quality, continuous iteration and experimentation, efficiency and operational excellence as well as speed of launching to production
• Ensure agile ceremonies, involve relevant stakeholders (especially from other Engineering areas and Product Management)
• Teach and mentor engineers in technical and non-technical growth and learning, setting up goals and monitoring their performance
• Ensure code/design/architecture/knowledge sharing reviews happen on teams in a timely manner and that work follows established best practices and standards
• Coordinate with Engineering Leadership (meaning managers, Directors, CTO) to roll out engineering initiatives, as well as whenever cross-team work is necessary
• Be active in the technology community, positively contribute to Aircall’s reputation, and find great candidates to grow the team

Benefits

Competitive salary package & benefits (health coverage, lunch, commute, sports)