Senior Team Lead, Deel
Engineering (Node.js/Typescript)
Global payroll for employees and contractors
Posted today
Global payroll for employees and contractors
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and RESTful API design
- 3+ years of experience managing and mentoring engineers, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Strong technical acumen and a track record of building scalable, robust systems
- Proficiency in automated unit, functional, and integration testing
- Passion for exceptional user experiences, innovative problem-solving, and technical excellence
- Experience managing performance reviews and scaling teams in a high-growth environment
- 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
- Experience navigating cross-browser and cross-platform development challenges
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
- Knowledge of additional tech stacks or expertise across multiple technical domains
What the job involves
- As a Senior Team Lead, Engineering at Deel, you will lead 1 or 2 cross-functional teams (7-10 professionals in each team), with a balance of leadership (70%) and hands-on technical work (30%)
- You will drive technical excellence, mentor your teams, and deliver scalable, innovative solutions in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- By fostering collaboration and adopting best practices, you will ensure the team meets organizational goals and delivers exceptional user experiences
- Serve as a technical leader, combining hands-on development with strategic oversight
- Design, code, and deliver high-quality, scalable applications with Node.js
- 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
- Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain high coding standards and technical quality
- Collaborate closely with product and design teams to create extraordinary user experiences
- Drive technical planning and execution, balancing short-term objectives with long-term system health
- Promote Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and effectiveness
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Define and implement technical strategies in alignment with organizational goals
- Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem-solving
- Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery
- Represent your teams in cross-functional discussions, aligning technical requirements with business objectives
- Play an active role in hiring and scaling the teams, 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
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams to ensure seamless alignment on 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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