Lead Engineer
Sliema (Remote) / London (Remote) / Lisbon (Remote) / Sofia (Remote) / Dublin (Remote) / Bucharest (Remote) / Belgrade (Remote) / Barcelona (Remote) / Amsterdam (Remote)
Engineering – Fullstack Development /
Freelancer /
Remote
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Engineer to drive the architectural vision and technical excellence of our systems. In this senior technical role, you will lead complex system design, provide strategic technical direction, and ensure the implementation of robust, scalable, and secure solutions aligned with industry best practices.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architectural vision and technical roadmap to ensure scalable, maintainable, performant, and secure systems.
- Define and enforce technology standards, design patterns, and coding best practices across development teams.
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews, emphasizing trunk-based development and CI/CD pipelines.
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
- Proactively identify technical bottlenecks, bugs, and risks, and devise actionable solutions.
- Work closely with product teams, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align technical strategies with business objectives.
- Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
- Advocate agile methodologies to streamline development processes and enhance delivery quality.
- Continuously evaluate and improve engineering practices, tools, and workflows.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues to ensure system reliability.
- Lead and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance, feedback, and career development support.
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture that promotes knowledge sharing, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers, ensuring the team is engaged, productive, and growing.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions, clearly communicating technical trade-offs and decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven experience with the core tech stack: Node.js, Typescript, Next.js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, RabbitMQ, and Elastic Search.
- Strong understanding of scalable architecture, design patterns, and system security.
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and trunk-based development.
- Solid expertise in database modeling, optimization, and performance tuning, specifically PostgreSQL.
- Experience with LLMs and AI Agents
- Experience with building resilient and high-performance backend architectures (e.g., REST APIs, microservices).
- Proven leadership experience managing or mentoring engineering teams for a minimum of 5 years, ideally in a Lead or Staff Engineer role.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Certifications in AWS Solutions Architecture, Docker, or Agile methodologies.
- Experience with GraphQL and additional modern frameworks (e.g., NestJS).
- Exposure to low-code platforms (e.g., Retool) for rapid application development.
- Experience in DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus) and APM tools (New Relic, Datadog).
- Knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven design, and scalability best practices.
- Experience implementing data compliance standards (GDPR, ISO 27001).
- Background in people management, including performance reviews, recruitment, and career growth planning.
- Experience driving cultural and process improvements within engineering teams.
Nice to have
Find.co is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
