Engineering Team Lead

As a fast-growing company, we’re looking for talented individuals who are passionate about technology, eCommerce, and making a real impact. If you're ready to join a dynamic team and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will lead a cross-functional product team and take responsibility for delivery, technical direction, and team effectiveness in a multi-stack environment. This role requires proven people management experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to lead a diverse engineering team with different skill sets and seniority levels.

The team includes:

Full-stack developers (WordPress / PHP / React)
Backend engineers (Python)
QA engineers

You will balance rapid feature delivery with product stability and long-term technical improvements.

Key Responsibilities :

Full ownership of delivery for the product team across two products
Planning, prioritization, and execution to ensure predictable outcomes
Ownership of technical decisions and system evolution across Python, PHP, and React stacks
Maintaining and raising engineering standards, including testing and quality practices
Close collaboration with Product, Data, QA, and other stakeholders
Early identification and mitigation of delivery, quality, and technical risks
Coaching, mentoring, and performance management of team members
Pragmatic improvement of team structure, processes, and workflows

Requirements:

Leadership & Management Requirements:

3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
Experience leading teams in multi-stack environments (e.g., Python + PHP)
Proven ability to lead cross-functional product teams
Strong execution focus: turning plans and commitments into shipped results
High level of autonomy in technical and tactical decision-making
Ability to enforce processes while improving them pragmatically
Experience with Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum Technical Background
Strong backend engineering background, preferably PHP or Python (5+ years of commercial experience)
Experience building and maintaining APIs
Solid understanding of databases and data consistency (MySQL, MongoDB)
Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Celery)
Familiarity with distributed or service-oriented architectures
Practical experience with CI/CD, production support, and incident handling
Ability to assess architecture and code quality across backend and frontend stacks

Languages:

Ukrainian or Russian: native
English: Intermediate or higher

Engineering Team Lead

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