Engineering Team Lead

As a fast-growing company, we’re looking for talented individuals who are passionate about technology, eCommerce, and making a real impact. If you're ready to join a dynamic team and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!
 
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will lead a cross-functional product team and take responsibility for delivery, technical direction, and team effectiveness in a multi-stack environment. This role requires proven people management experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to lead a diverse engineering team with different skill sets and seniority levels.

The team includes: 
• Full-stack developers (WordPress / PHP / React) 
• Backend engineers (Python) 
• QA engineers 

You will balance rapid feature delivery with product stability and long-term technical improvements. 

Key Responsibilities 
• Full ownership of delivery for the product team across two products 
• Planning, prioritization, and execution to ensure predictable outcomes 
• Ownership of technical decisions and system evolution across Python, PHP, and React stacks 
• Maintaining and raising engineering standards, including testing and quality practices 
• Close collaboration with Product, Data, QA, and other stakeholders 
• Early identification and mitigation of delivery, quality, and technical risks 
• Coaching, mentoring, and performance management of team members 
• Pragmatic improvement of team structure, processes, and workflows 

Leadership & Management Requirements 
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams 
• Experience leading teams in multi-stack environments (e.g., Python + PHP) 
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional product teams 
• Strong execution focus: turning plans and commitments into shipped results 
• High level of autonomy in technical and tactical decision-making 
• Ability to enforce processes while improving them pragmatically 
• Experience with Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum Technical Background 
• Strong backend engineering background, preferably PHP or Python (5+ years of commercial experience) 
• Experience building and maintaining APIs 
• Solid understanding of databases and data consistency (MySQL, MongoDB) 
• Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Celery) 
• Familiarity with distributed or service-oriented architectures 
• Practical experience with CI/CD, production support, and incident handling 
• Ability to assess architecture and code quality across backend and frontend stacks 

Nice to have: 
• Experience with WordPress-based products 
• Exposure to React-based frontends 
• Experience scaling or stabilizing newly launched products 

Soft Skills & Working Style 
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability 
• Structured, analytical thinking 
• Clear, direct communication 

Languages 
• Ukrainian or Russian: native 
• English: Intermediate or higher