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Job Description
Your role:
As a Team Lead at Global Relay, you will be overseeing small, highly focused teams of developers employing leading edge technologies. We build pioneering products that are used by tens of thousands of users globally to solve real-world business communication and messaging problems. At Global Relay we are continuously pushing the boundaries of application development, and you as the Team Lead will be in one of the driving seats.
Your job:
- Lead a team of developers who like to ship product and welcome challenging and complex engineering problems in an Agile environment
- Instantiate a culture of knowledge sharing
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
- Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
- Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
- Work with product managers to ensure the teams are delivering an accurate product build and work with project managers to ensure the schedules and controls for the development teams are met
- Work with appropriate stakeholder to ensure production issues are resolved quickly
- Own your team's deliverables and product quality. Ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available, and world class products to our customers
- Help your team build relationships across functions with QA, Operations, Support and other teams to ensure Global Relay’s continuing success
- Be a hands-on development team manager who will spend up to 50% of their time in design reviews, sprint planning and other Agile artifacts. Some active coding is a requirement for this role.
- Appreciate and advocate for information security and secure coding practices
About you:
- An M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- 8 years of software development experience, shipping enterprise grade software, using multiple languages and frameworks
- 2+ years of experience as a hands-on development team manager
- Demonstrated track record leading geographically dispersed teams
- Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it
- Strong communication and consensus building skills
- Experience with full stack SaaS development
- Experience with advanced web applications
- Experience with API development in service and resource-oriented architectures
- Experience with large complex databases and data quality and lifecycle issues
- Bonus: Experience with Security, Authentication, Authorization, or Cryptography
Tech stack:
- Language: Java, Python, Spring Boot Framework
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Skaffold, OpenShift
- Databases: PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Cassandra
- Other: ZooKeeper, Kafka, Ansible, Hardware Security Modules