Engineering Leader (mobile stream)

We are looking for an Engineering Leader (mobile stream) to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end ownership of the software development lifecycle
• Design and implement solutions ranging from critical maintenance work to new feature development based on UAT feedback and business priorities
• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation including architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and decision logs to ensure knowledge retention
• Build quality-first mindset by integrating QA practices throughout maintenance workflow to maintain system stability and reliability
• Lead and mentor the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the client, ensuring clear communication, effective expectation management, and alignment on both business and technical goals
• Сombine hands-on technical work with leadership duties, ensuring effective technical decision-making
• Ensure implementation of engineering best practices
• Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to transform business requirements into robust and secure technical solutions
• Ensure system health and performance monitoring using modern observability tools (Grafana, GrayLog, etc.) and ensure proactive issue resolution
• Promote a product-oriented mindset within the team, focusing on delivering customer value and business impact
• Manage team performance, facilitate Agile ceremonies, and ensure timely delivery of project milestones

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience
• Experience in leading development teams, monitoring, and verifying SDLC metrics.
• Extensive experience working with mobile technologies – Android Open Source Project
• A big plus: 3+ years of full-stack development experience with Node.js, or proficiency in another backend programming language
• Strong leadership skills
• Wide experience working with different architectural frameworks and notations
• Understanding and experience in developing and deploying microservices
• Experience developing REST interfaces, OpenApi
• OOP, OOD, DDD, Design Patterns proficient
• Working knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL technologies
• Experience with different cloud service providers – preferably AWS
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Familiar with various monitoring tools like GrayLog, Grafana
• Working experience in an Agile environment, a clear understanding of Agile methodologies and mindset, and development practices applicable to them
• Upper-Intermediate/Advanced English level

Nice to have:

• Working with security aspects of business functionality, cross-cutting approaches to secure and limit public access
• Experience leading knowledge transfer initiatives between different teams
• Experience with web frontend development

Product-oriented mindset is a must, excellent communication, organizational, and facilitation skills, focus on team results, leadership qualities, and resilience.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers