Team Lead Python Engineer

Description
 

We are a unified ecosystem of products and services under one brand, including SplitMetrics Acquire (formerly SearchAdsHQ), SplitMetrics Optimize — our award-winning A/B testing and ASO platform of 2022 — and SplitMetrics Agency.
 

Requirements
 

- 7+ years of backend engineering experience including distributed systems design
- 3+ years in a role with technical leadership responsibilities (team leader, senior leading others, etc.)
- Experience with planning, estimation and delivering complex projects
- Strong understanding of performance optimization and scalability principles
- Confident in owning decisions with business impact
- Able to work under high delivery pressure and manage trade-offs
- Excellent communication skills in English (B2)

Responsibilities
 

- Take full ownership of planning and delivering platform roadmap items
- Lead the backend engineers + QA engineers in the team, organize day-to-day work and ensure predictable delivery
- Plan work for the next quarter and contribute to high-level multi-quarter planning together with Director of Engineering
- Improve delivery accuracy, reduce delays, and manage risks early
- Design and develop scalable high-load backend solutions used across the company
- Optimize data flows, performance, and system reliability
- Drive modernization of legacy services, architecture improvements and technical debt reduction
- Collaborate with product owners, solution architects and other teams on priorities and alignment
- Ensure proper documentation, visibility and knowledge sharing inside the team