Engineering Team Lead

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

Originally posted on Himalayas