Engineering Team Lead

Hyderabad - Services

Backbase

Engineering Team Lead

We opened the doors of our Business Development Centre (BDC) in the heart of Hyderabad in December 2020. Young at heart, the BDC is a wonderful space that strengthens Backbase’s presence in the APAC region. The physical presence of great talent and support also makes way for long-term relationships with customers.

Nestled in the middle of Hyderabad, the state-of-the-art building sits amidst other global brands. The location offers stunning views of hills and lakes, while nearby there is a selection of restaurants, traditional bazaars, and other cultural hotspots.

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In your role, you have to deal with both technical and people systems; you connect structures, teams, and people, holding them together, but also identify and fill gaps where needed. You are a technically strong role model to help your team advance and develop, while being hands-on when needed. You are responsible for and help the teams set out the strategic direction. You align engineering initiatives with company goals, helping engineers understand how their work connects to the bigger picture. You support individual engineers’ growth, help teams become successful, make the organization more productive, functional, and innovative. Along with leading and growing the team, you define and promote the team’s ways of working, hiring, and training strategies.

* Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or similar experience; * hands-on software development/engineering experience, of which at least 2 years with people management responsibilities; * 2+ years of experience in leading multi-disciplinary Agile development teams (minimum 2 teams of 6 - 8 engineers), preferably in a product company and banking, payments and SaaS experience is a plus ; * Good knowledge and experience with Agile methodology like scrum or kanban; * Experience hiring engineers, defining an ideal team composition and defining onboarding/training strategies is a plus; * Very good understanding of technical practices like continuous integration, automated testing, release management, performance monitoring and applicable tooling such as Jira, Confluence, Git, etc; * Excellent English speaking, writing and presentation skills; * Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or similar experience.