Front-End Team Lead

Summary

Join our team as a Team Lead, managing a cross-functional development team (Back-end, Front-end, AQA). You will guide the team's engineering strategy, culture, and agreements. As a Tech Lead for front-end development, you'll establish team agreements, quality standards, and a shared vision. You will be the central point of contact for all delivery-related questions, including task decomposition, workload planning, and deadline setting. Responsibilities also include resource management, encompassing motivation, hiring, training, and productivity enhancement. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience as a line engineering manager and JavaScript/TypeScript + React developer, along with familiarity with back-end development and relational databases. We offer competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, remote work, paid time off, and team-building events.

Requirements

• Have experience as a line engineering manager (Team Lead/Tech Lead/Engineering Manager)
• Have previous significant experience as a JavaScript Developer/TypeScript + React Developer
• Have familiarity with Back-end development at a level sufficient for competent decomposition and task setting
• Have experience with relational databases: creating a schema, writing SQL queries, indexes, migrations
• Understand the principles of distributed applications and microservice architecture
• Have good knowledge of English and Russian language

Responsibilities

• Manage a cross-functional development team (Back-end, Front-end, AQA)
• Bring the team to the target state in terms of engineering strategy, culture and existing team agreements in all areas
• Form team agreements, quality standards and a common vision of the front-end part of the product
• Be the single entry point for all the questions that concerns delivery of your team: decomposition of product tasks into engineering ones, planning the workload of your team members and deadlines
• Manage team member resources: motivation, hiring, training, productivity

Preferred Qualifications

• Have broad technical knowledge: algorithms, data structures, Linux, networks, security, SQL/NoSQL databases, clouds
• Have experience in organizing a process approach to management (BPM)
• Have knowledge of the basics of domain-oriented design (DDD), and its application in projects
• Have experience in finance or other areas where data security and integrity are key requirements
• Be autonomous, have a good level of self-organization, time management and workload

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with yearly performance reviews
• Opportunities to attend conferences, courses, and professional development at the company's expense
• Remote work
• 20 days of vacation time; Latvian bank holidays; Sick leaves; Additional birthday day off
• Team building events and corporate parties