Overview
Join our vibrant Software Engineering team, where you’ll lead a diverse and dedicated group of 5 to 7 highly engaged software engineers, contributing directly to the core of the solution.
Reporting to a member of the Senior Engineering leadership team, this multifaceted role demands excellent people management and organizational skills, combined with a solid technical foundation. With your team at the core of the solution, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of stakeholders across various application areas and roles, empowering you to make a meaningful impact on success.
We value inclusivity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to bring their unique perspectives and talents to our team.
This is a hybrid role based in our Prague office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team. This is a full-time employment position. As of this time, we are not considering freelance or B2B arrangements for this role.
- Lead a team of 5 to 7 software engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions following agile best practices.
- Collaborate with your Product Management counterpart to align engineering efforts with business goals and customer needs.
- Support your team members in growing their technical skills and developing their careers.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical designs to ensure scalability and performance.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration to build a sense of ownership among team members.
You have
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or a related technical role.
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership or people management position within an engineering team.
- Strong technical foundation in backend engineering (Java/Spring), Kubernetes, and data-related products
- Proficient in utilizing advanced software development tools and version control systems, such as GitHub and Jira.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.
- You must have work authorization to work in Prague, Czech Republic.
You are
- Agile Expertise: Skilled in agile development methodologies and iterative improvement techniques.
- Communication Skills: Possesses outstanding English verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts and is a great listener.
- Learning and Growth Mindset: Eager to learn, stay updated with best practices and trends, and share knowledge with the team.
- Organizational Skills: Proven abilities to help the team identify, prioritize, and remove impediments, ensuring smooth and dependable delivery.
- Team Building: Excels at building bridges among team members and functions, fostering a positive team spirit and supporting motivation.
- Collaboration: Keen to work on a diverse team, build networks, and promote collaboration.
- Guidance: Ambitious to see team members develop their competencies and grow professionally.
- Able to speak to, and on behalf of data engineers.
- Someone who can serve as somewhat of a “product” expert for making decisions about how we design and build our observability capabilities.
- Someone who can help our product marketing team understand how to unlock data engineers and build relationships/trust with them.
Benefits
- Permanent Employment
- Paid Vacation (Take time to recharge with at least 20 days of paid vacation each year—tailored to meet or exceed the minimum in your country)
- Paid Sick Leave (Prioritize your health with up to 4 weeks of paid short-term sick leave when you need time to rest and recover)
- Flexible Benefit Funds (A monthly allowance you can use your way—on food, fitness, wellness and more)
- Birthing Parental Leave (14 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, plus a 3-week return-to-work transition program)
- Non-Birthing Parental Leave (8 weeks of fully paid leave for partners, adoptive parents, foster parents, and surrogates—with a 3-week return-to-work transition to help you ease back in)
- Global Employee Assistance Program (Access up to 10 free therapy sessions and 10 coaching sessions)
- Bereavement Leave (Take the time you need to grieve and be with loved ones, with 10 days of fully paid bereavement leave)
- Caregiver Support Leave (Be there for the people who matter most—receive up to 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave)
Measures of success are
- Within your first month, you meet your team members and key stakeholders, and get up-to-speed on products and practices.
- Within your third month, you will lead your team’s Agile delivery and have a solid understanding of your team’s challenges and priorities.
- Within your sixth month, you will be able to fully define, prioritize and lead your team in line with vision and be fully independent in your role.
Our values
We are a company that seeks the best for both our employees and clients, reaching beyond expectations in turning dreams into reality. Our way of working is rooted in our core values (Integrity, Excellence, Proactivity, Innovation, and People), with an expectation that our future colleagues will make these their second nature in their everyday work and life. We don’t ask for perfection, but we do appreciate people motivated to better themselves in every conceivable aspect.
About IT Labs
Founded in 2005, IT Labs is an international software tech company, specializing in purpose and process-driven teams for high performance, innovation, transformation, and efficiency. Our HQ is in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and we have teams and offices around the world – the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, and North Macedonia. We are constantly growing, and we would love for you to become part of our team!
Interested?
Feel free to reach out and connect here: taras.popovych@sunvery.com.ua
