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Engineering Team Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements:

  • 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
  • Coaching, mentoring, and performance management of team members

Job description

Description

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


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