About the role
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.
Job Responsibilities
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
You’ll thrive here if you have
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.
- EU passport. Opportunity to obtain an EU passport after 4 years of residence
- 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
- Provident fund (Cyprus): a long-term savings plan co-funded by you and the Company together (available after probation) that grows throughout your time with us in Cyprus.
- Corporate mobile plan (unlimited in Cyprus with roaming included)
- 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
- Professional growth support: language courses, conferences, training programs, and coaching.
- Peer recognition program: receive and share kudos for great work.
- A fully equipped office in Limassol’s city center, with everything you need for deep work and collaboration.
- Free breakfasts and lunches 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
- HR interview (45 min).
- First Interview: Team & Process Block (60 min).
- Second Interview: Business & Technical Block (60 min).
- Possibly can be arranged a Final cultural fit interview / Q&A (60 min).
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