Backend Software Engineering Team Lead

About the role

As the Team Lead for our software development team, you will play a key role in driving the architecture, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will lead a group of talented developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical innovation, and strong delivery results. Your responsibilities will encompass both hands-on coding and line management, helping the team grow, improve, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Our Stack

- Language: Java 17

- Frameworks: Spring Boot (Tomcat, Netty), Spring Data, Spring Cloud

- Architecture: Microservices, REST API, Message Queues

- Database: MySQL, MyBatis, MongoDB

- Caching: Redis (AWS ElastiCache), ElasticSearch

- Message Queue: RocketMQ

- Cloud: Kubernetes, AWS

- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTracing

- CI/CD: Jenkins, ArgoCD

What you'll be doing

- Lead and mentor a talented development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture

- Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture

- Participate in high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems

- Drive the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions

- Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output

- Manage team members' performance and career development

- Help drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, and techniques

What you'll bring

- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend technologies (e.g. Java, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)

- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation

- Strong experience in software architecture and designing scalable, reliable systems

- Hands-on experience in backend development, with expertise in APIs and microservices

- Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to manage and collaborate within a remote, diverse team

- A passion for technology and innovation, with a drive to solve complex technical challenges

What’s in it for you

- Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability

- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter

- 28 days paid annual leave

- Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this

- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses

- Top of the line equipment

- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

- Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team

- Offline Take home assignment

- Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)

- Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.