Overview

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will build and lead a new team dedicated to our Cloud Site offering. This team is at the center of a key strategic initiative, creating a sibling product of the existing Edge product line, offering a platform that allows our customers to securely connect to and gain insights from their data. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping this product from its early stages, partnering closely with product and engineering to deliver significant value to both our customers and internal engineering teams.

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.

What You’ll Do:

  • Building, leading, and mentoring a high-performance team of software engineers, while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and customer-focused team culture.
  • Guiding the team’s technical strategy and architectural decisions in order to build a scalable, secure, and reliable platform on Kubernetes and public cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
  • Collaborating with Product Managers, Architects, and other engineering teams to define the product roadmap and ensure the timely delivery of features that meet customer needs.
  • While using agile techniques, managing the full software development lifecycle for the Cloud Site team in order to deliver incremental value, from planning and development to deployment and operations.
  • Building the team by attracting, hiring, and retaining engineering talent to ensure the team has the skills and capacity to meet its goals.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership or team management experience.
  • Strong technical foundation in Kubernetes, backend development (Java/Spring), RESTful APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience building internal platforms, tooling, or services used by multiple engineering teams.
  • Familiarity with application architecture, distributed systems, and platform reliability best practices.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous technical/product challenges and balancing long-term platform evolution with near-term delivery.
  • Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal) and the ability to build trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Work authorization for Prague, Czech Republic. Please note, this is a full-time employment position; we are not considering B2B or freelance arrangements at this time.

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 will have: Integrated with your key product and engineering partners, understood the Cloud Site vision, and begun the process of building your engineering team.
  • Within your third month, you will have: Established the team and started delivering initial value for the Cloud Site product, contributing to a clear roadmap for the future.
  • Within your sixth month, you will have: Led your team to become a fully integrated and high performing engineering group, consistently shipping features and improvements that impact our customers.

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