Tech Team Lead, LanguageWire

• Do you have a strong technical background and the experience to make your teammates excel on their tasks?
• Can you lead and guide our talented and self-motivated software engineers across several locations?
• Are you ambitious about solid software engineering?
• Do you enjoy making distributed and highly scalable services in the cloud?
• You enjoy working with people, grooming new talents, or inspiring our senior developers to do even better
• You are fluent in C# and take great pride in delivering sound and scalable solutions
• Team lead experience
• Able to motivate and engage with engineers. You must be a likeable person!
• Strong engineering experience working with high performance software
• You are passionate about writing solid code
• Solid experience with C#, .Net Core, micro services in SaaS setup, Open API

Desirable

• As Tech Team Lead you will have the unique opportunity to recruit new team members and lead a new team in one of our Tribes
• The product you will own is the cornerstone of our business
• Thousands of high-profile enterprise customers use it to translate hundreds of millions of words yearly in more than 700 language pairs using AI based natural language processing services
• And we eat our own dogfood: the LanguageWire delivery team and a community of more than 7.000 linguistic experts rely on it to do their job, 24x7
• You and your team will be responsible for lifting the product to the next level of scalability and functionality
• The team will work with both backend and frontend features, utilizing microservices and cloud technology
• You will join one of our most important tribes and lead one of the teams there
• The Tribe currently consists of two teams with a total of 11 dedicated people
• We need your help to find smart engineers to grow the new team to around 4-6 people
• You will work closely with two existing teams working in a distributed and international setup, as well as the Director of tribe who will also be your direct leader
• The team develops and maintains, among other things, the customer and translator portal, the workflow orchestration engine, an internal API and much more
• We moved the product to the cloud and want to move to API first and there’s a huge roadmap packed with great product ideas that will keep us busy for the years to come
• Our team handles both the Frontend (written in JavaScript and Typescript) and several backend micro-services including the data persistence layer (created using .NET 5 and running on Kubernetes clusters in Azure)
• You’ll report to our Director of engineering, and you’ll work closely with our Director of Technology and two other Team Leads within the Tribe
• Leading your team in personal and professional growth ensuring they have what they need to succeed
• Analyzing business requirements and design scalable cloud solutions with a focus on backend technology & APIs
• Working closely with our Product Owners to ensure business expectations are met, and we deliver solutions that works in real life
• Contributing actively to the code base by taking part of the implementation and code reviews
• Managing the Software Development Life Cycle within your team. You build it - You run it
• In one year, you’ll know you were successful if…
• You will have successfully hired and on-boarded the new team members completing the new team!
• You’ve helped our software developers to improve the usability, functional coverage, and scalability of our LanguageWire product
• You and the team are proud about your products and work