Front-End Team Lead

Description

• Conducting regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback, and creating development plans to support the growth of team members; • Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives; • Enforcing quality assurance processes and standards within the team, ensuring thorough testing and validation of deliverables before release; • Improving quality and efficiency in development processes, promoting agile methodologies and other best practices for software development; • Acting as the primary point of contact between the team, upper management, and other departments to facilitate effective communication and collaboration; • Reporting on team progress, challenges, and successes to stakeholders and management, ensuring transparency and alignment; • Promoting the adoption of best practices in software development, tracking and analyzing key performance metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement; • Creating a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages collaboration; • Ensuring proper documentation of technical designs, system architecture, and code, maintaining comprehensive documentation for future reference and knowledge sharing; • Leading the team in the development of JavaScript and React applications, implementing functional and object-oriented programming principles, and overseeing unit and integration testing using Jest and Playwright.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant commercial experience and at least 2 years in a leadership or team lead capacity; • Strong knowledge of JavaScript, React, and TypeScript; • Understanding of software design patterns, OOP and functional programming; • Experience with unit and integration tests (Jest, Playwright); • Proven ability to lead, inspire, and motivate engineering teams to achieve high performance, while managing conflicts and creating win-win solutions; • Strong understanding of goal setting, project delivery, and the delivery triangle (time, scope, budget); • Ability to define KPIs/OKRs for the team, continuously assess and improve engineering processes and workflows; • Advanced problem-solving and decision-making skills, including identifying key problems and mitigating risks; • Ability to implement and monitor engineering quality standards, identify inefficiencies, and drive process improvements; • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly; • Commitment to the professional growth and mentorship of team members, creating a supportive and inclusive environment; • Knowledge of team role models and frameworks (Belbin, SDI, etc.) to optimize team structure and collaboration; • Upper-Intermediate English level.

Benefits

• An annual fixed budget that you can use based on your needs and lifestyle. You decide how to allocate it: • Sports – gym, yoga, or any activity to keep you active; • Medical – insurance and wellness services; • Mental health– therapy or coaching support; • Home office – ergonomic furniture, gadgets, and tools; • Languages – courses to improve or learn new skills. • Parental support with paid maternity/paternity leave and monthly childcare allowance; • 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, and emergency time off; • Remote-first setup with full tech support and coworking compensation; • Regular team events – online, offline, and offsite; • Learning culture with internal courses, career development programs, and real growth opportunities.

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