Infra Engineering Team Lead, Deel
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Global payroll for employees and contractors
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Global payroll for employees and contractors
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make a change for people everywhere by empowering companies to eliminate hiring borders—so anyone, anywhere in the world, can access new opportunities.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript or Go/Python
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure: AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, not only using it but setting it up
- 2+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams of 5+ people
- Experience with Postgres/MySQL
- Experience managing Kafka/Nats and building event driven architectures on top of it
- Proficiency in automated unit, functional, and integration testing
- Proven experience in designing and architecting distributed systems with high-performance, scalability, and availability demands
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You will need to drive initiatives across 50+ engineering teams
- Experience building 24/7 incident response processes
- Thrive in environments requiring both technical expertise and leadership
- Combine strategic vision with attention to detail in decision-making
- Demonstrate a commitment to collaboration, continuous learning, and team success
- Drive innovation while balancing immediate goals with long-term technical health
Desirable
- You have past experience in Platform engineering
- Knowledge across multiple tech stacks and technical domains
What the job involves
- As a Team Lead at Deel, you will lead a cross-functional team of 6-10 professionals spread across multiple zones (from India to Brazil) with a balance of leadership (70%) and hands-on technical work (30%)
- You will drive technical excellence, mentor your team, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- By fostering collaboration and adopting best practices, you will ensure the team meets organizational goals and provides the platform and required support to meet our engineering org demands
- Serve as a leader of a strong distributed team driving decision-making, architecture reviews and ensuring day-to-day operations
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance, fostering growth and skill development within the team
- Ensure best practices in development, testing, and deployment, driving innovation and excellence
- Drive planning and execution, balancing tactical wins with long-term objectives
- Implement and standardize best practices for engineering across teams keeping the bar high both for the team and organization
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Build processes to provide support to engineering and ensure reliability of critical infrastructure
- Define and implement strategic projects in alignment with organizational goals
- Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem-solving
- Represent infrastructure in cross-functional discussions, aligning technical requirements with business objectives
- Play an active role in hiring and scaling the team, ensuring alignment with company values
- Manage performance cycles, provide structured feedback, and support the professional growth of team members
- Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
- Champion diversity and foster an environment where all team members thrive
- Work closely with DevOps, DBA and InfoSec teams to align on organizational goals
- Coordinate efforts across teams to drive complex projects and ensure shared objectives are met
- Communicate technical challenges, opportunities, and solutions effectively to stakeholders
- Push back on product decisions when necessary, presenting well-reasoned arguments to prioritize technical health, scalability, and long-term success
- Resolve complex, multi-team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across disciplines
Our take
Remote work is growing exponentially, but global onboarding and payments haven't caught up. Deel is a payroll platform for remote teams that connects localised compliance and payments in one system of record, and automates everything.
Deel's goal is to offer every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easy. The company's growth curve is one for the books, as it has been able to grow its customer base and team at an impressive rate. Its valuation follows suit, and Deel boasts being one of few businesses to hit $10+ billion just a year after hitting unicorn status.
With remote working here to stay, Deel has proven it got in at the right time, being well placed to capitalise on the trend of globally distributed teams. With such impressive backing, the company should be able to keep its success up as it moves into the future, bolstered by the release of new products and integrations that amplify the impact of its offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
277% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $678.9m
Company benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Parental leave
- The option to be paid in digital currency or the currency of your choice
- $100 per person per month Health and Wellness budget
- $30 per person per month Learning and Development budget
- FlexWork - you choose where you work - from your home, the beach, a Deel office, or through our WeWork global membership program
Company values
- Genuine Care: Care is our cornerstone and our competitive advantage. We deeply care for out customers and teammates. We demonstrate it in our every action and communication.
- Default Optimism: We are happy people. We focus on the good and consider ourselves critical optimists. Of course, bad days happen, but we always see our glass as half full.
- Deel Speed: Proactivity beats reactivity. We believe debating if an approach is optimal or suboptimal. We are detail-oriented and act, build, and iterate fast.
- Unequivocal Transparency: We are direct and transparent. The only way to resolve conflicts, avoid politics, and ensure alignment is through respectful, open communication.
- Dig Deeper: When tackling problems, we dig to the root cause to understand why they exist. A quick fix today can become a breaking point tomorrow.
- Analyse then Automate: We are a data-driven company. We track and automate to ensure we know where we are headed and ensure there is a clear road ahead.
- Compete to Win: We hustle and innovate with our teammates and partners to ensure competitiveness. We want to win every Deel, everywhere.
- Organize and Share: We are organized and efficient. We structure and share information across the organization. Knowledge and its transferability are key to scale.
- Thoughtful Frugality: We treat the company's resources like our own. We put the company's best interest first when making decisions.
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Alex Bouaziz
(CEO)Previously a Researcher in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Co-Founder and former CEO of Lifeslice.
Shuo Wang
(CRO)Previously a Researcher at MIT Newman Lab. Co-Founder and former CTO of Aeris Cleantec.
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