Technical Team Lead

Summary

Join KINESSO as a Staff Software Engineer and lead a product team responsible for an advertising planning product used by Interpublic Group agencies. This hands-on role involves shaping product architecture, translating requirements into actionable tasks, developing new features, managing tech debt, and leading code reviews. You will coordinate with a development team of 8-10 people, primarily located in Greece, and collaborate with QA for continuous delivery. The position reports to the VP, Application Engineering, Planning and is primarily remote, with the option to work in the London office. The application uses Java, Spring Boot, React, and MySQL, deployed on AWS using Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Prior experience as a team lead in a Scrum development environment
• Strong knowledge of modern Java, Spring Boot, and microservice architectures
• Familiar with functional programming principles
• Experience with web development methodologies, React preferable
• Knowledge of Amazon’s AWS ecosystem and technologies available
• Excellent organizational and technical writing skills

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and engineering design of the product and its interactions with other applications and services
• Work with the Product team to execute the roadmap and translate requirements into actionable software engineering tasks
• Discuss technical solutions with the development team, communicate goals and facilitate execution
• Develop new features and expand the product capabilities
• Manage tech debt and a growing codebase so we continuously improve quality and performance
• Lead functional design and code reviews and provide feedback to the development team
• Coordinate with QA team members and work together to achieve automated testing in support of continuous delivery capabilities
• Support the Product organization in product demos and pitches
• Maintain a high-performance team, and encourage a highly innovative culture
• Have a results-driven personality, high enthusiasm, energy, and confidence

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in advertising/marketing tech

Benefits

• Flexi–leave, with 25 days annual leave to be taken as minimum. In addition to your holiday entitlement, the office usually closes between Christmas & New Year
• Free breakfast and free lunch
• Early finish Fridays
• Core Hours (Mon-Thurs, flexible start/finish times)
• Retail discounts
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifices car scheme
• Wellbeing programme, including Headspace & flu jabs
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Paid time off for Volunteering
• Group Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance or Health Cash Plan (dependent on level)
• Group Personal Pension Plan with matched contributions from 3-6%
• Generous Parental Leave & Pay
• Independent mortgage advice
• Financial education
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free eye tests
• Flexible benefits including Dental, Travel insurance, Cycle to Work, Gym Discounts and many more!