Team Lead

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.

Responsibilities

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

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.

• 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, a corporate mobile plan (unlimited in Cyprus with roaming included), and interest-free support for car purchases.

• 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, and cycling purchase compensation.

• Investment in your growth: paid language courses and access to suited-for-you development programs, including conferences, training programs, and coaching to support your professional journey.

• A culture of recognition: a peer reward program to celebrate your contributions.

• A fully equipped office in Limassol’s city center, with everything you need for deep work and collaboration.

• Free catering 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.