Team Lead

Manager
6+ years of experience
Limassol

The Team Lead is responsible for leading a cross-functional engineering team with a focus on delivering operational excellence, fostering team growth, and aligning delivery efforts with business objectives. This is a foundational leadership role that ensures team effectiveness through strategic planning, performance management, and strong collaboration with technical and business stakeholders. The Team Lead acts as a force multiplier, enabling individuals and the team to succeed.

Responsibilities

1. Team Operations & Performance:

  • Organize and manage the daily operations of the team, including workload planning and delivery execution.
  • Facilitate key team rituals such as sprint plannings, stand-ups, retrospectives, and grooming sessions.
  • Act as the primary resolver of team-level blockers and escalate issues when appropriate.
  • Track key performance metrics and ensure alignment with business expectations.

2. People Management & Development:

  • Lead recruitment efforts in collaboration with the hiring team; participate in interviews and decision-making.
  • Own onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure smooth transitions.
  • Set clear goals for team members and conduct regular one-on-one meetings to discuss performance, growth, and well-being.
  • Drive motivation and engagement by fostering a positive team culture and identifying risks of burnout.
  • Develop and review individual career plans; provide timely and constructive feedback.
  • Conduct performance reviews and participate in compensation and promotion discussions.

3. Planning & Prioritization:

  • Oversee task decomposition and estimation.
  • Distribute and monitor progress on tasks, ensuring alignment with project goals and team capabilities.
  • Balance urgent needs with planned initiatives and drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders.
  • Manage sprint priorities and ensure team members understand focus areas.

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  • Act as a central point of contact for product managers, project managers, and other team leads.
  • Coordinate cross-team tasks and dependencies to reduce delivery friction.
  • Communicate breaking changes and key updates to relevant teams in a timely manner.
  • Foster transparency and efficiency in cross-team workflows.

5. Risk Management:

  • Monitor and mitigate team-level risks including bus factor, knowledge silos, and delivery blockers.
  • Proactively address risks related to team structure (e.g., attrition, promotions, reassignments).
  • Collaborate with Technical Leads to identify and plan for technical risks and maintenance efforts.
  • Provide input into workforce planning and hiring priorities.

6. Process & Continuous Improvement:

  • Track and analyze team-level and product-related metrics; define and maintain baselines.
  • Challenge the validity and usefulness of existing metrics and propose improvements.
  • Implement and adapt new team processes, assess adoption, and collect feedback to iterate.
  • Pilot process innovations at the team level and support broader adoption if successful.

Requirements

In general:

  • 6+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams (engineers, QA, product/design if applicable).
  • Proven success in delivering projects on time and aligned with business goals.
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), ability to adapt processes.
  • Prior involvement in recruitment, onboarding, and performance reviews.

Hard Skills:

  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, architecture, and engineering best practices.
  • Ability to decompose tasks, estimate workload, prioritize effectively, and track progress.
  • Experience defining, tracking, and improving delivery, quality, and cycle time metrics.
  • Ability to identify delivery, knowledge, and people-related risks, and plan mitigation strategies.
  • Experience managing dependencies, communicating changes, and ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
  • Ability to implement new processes, measure adoption, and iterate based on feedback.

Soft Skills:

  • Ability to foster a positive culture, maintain morale, and prevent burnout.
  • Skilled in goal-setting, career planning, coaching, and giving constructive feedback.
  • Able to mediate disputes, handle underperformance, and maintain productive dynamics.
  • Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Balances immediate delivery needs with long-term improvements and business objectives.
  • Comfortable adjusting processes, priorities, and focus in changing environments.

Must-have Behaviors:

  • Takes ownership of delivery and team health.
  • Proactive in identifying problems before they escalate.
  • Acts as a force multiplier, enabling others rather than micromanaging.
  • Challenges assumptions (processes, metrics, plans) constructively.
  • Demonstrates transparency and fairness in decisions around performance, compensation, and promotions.

Conditions

We know that great talent deserves great conditions, so here's what you can expect when joining us:

  • EU-based employment contract and a 3-year Cyprus work visa with full support for your relocation and visa processes, including assistance for your family.
  • Full relocation package: flights to Limassol for you and your family, a company-covered apartment for the first month, and full relocation support to make your move smooth and hassle-free.
  • Transparent performance reviews twice a year, with bonus opportunities and salary adjustments.
  • Private medical insurance for you and your family, a corporate mobile plan (unlimited in Cyprus with roaming included), and interest-free support for car purchases.
  • Mindfulness & well-being support, including psychological assistance with 50% coverage.
  • 50% coverage of school and kindergarten fees for your children.
  • Fully covered sports benefits, and also access to in-house electric scooters and bike rentals, and cycling purchase compensation.
  • Investment in your growth: paid language courses and access to suited-for-you development programs, including conferences, training programs, and coaching to support your professional journey.
  • A culture of recognition: a peer reward program to celebrate your contributions.
  • A fully equipped office in Limassol’s city center, with everything you need for deep work and collaboration.
  • Free catering in the office and an in-house coffee bar with high-quality drinks and a health bar stocked with nutritious snacks.
  • A strong engineering culture: international teams, corporate events, team buildings, and hackathons—because great work happens in great communities.

Recruitment process

  1. HR interview (45 min).
  2. First Interview: Team & Process Block (60 min).
  3. Second Interview: Business & Technical Block (60 min).
  4. Final cultural fit interview / Q&A (60 min).

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