Salary up to: $9.500 /month

Location: Warsaw / Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are seeking a Team Lead Full-Stack Developer with strong hands-on capabilities in React and Node.js, who can also lead, mentor, and coordinate the work of a cross-functional engineering Team. You will take ownership of feature delivery, technical architecture, quality standards, and team performance. You’ll be a bridge between planning, execution, and quality, ensuring that the team consistently delivers robust, scalable, and maintainable software.

Key Responsibilities

Technical / Delivery

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of full-stack features using React (frontend) and Node.js (backend)
• Define and enforce best practices, coding standards, architecture patterns, module boundaries, and reusable components
• Oversee API design (REST, GraphQL, or similar) and ensure clean separation of concerns
• Integrate with databases, third-party services, microservices, message brokers, etc.
• Participate in, or lead, technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and decisions
• Identify and drive technical improvements, refactoring, optimizations, and performance enhancements
• Manage build, deployment, CI/CD pipelines, and automation workflows

Leadership / Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of developers
• Promote collaboration, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning
• Plan, coordinate, and prioritize work, including balancing technical debt, new development, bug fixes, and enhancements
• Estimate effort, allocate resources, set sprint goals, and ensure timely delivery
• Act as a liaison with product management, stakeholders, design, and operations
• Ensure quality standards are met — define and track metrics (defect rates, test coverage, velocity, etc.)
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, standups, and other agile ceremonies
• Perform performance reviews, training needs assessments, and provide feedback to team members

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience with React.js (hooks, state management, component architecture, performance optimizations)
• Proficiency in Node.js (Express, NestJS, or equivalent backend frameworks)
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript (preferably TypeScript)
• Experience building RESTful APIs, GraphQL or similar
• Familiarity with databases (SQL / NoSQL), ORM / ODM (e.g. Sequelize, TypeORM, Mongoose)
• Experience with message brokers, event-driven architecture, microservices is a plus
• Solid testing skills (unit tests, integration tests, test automation frameworks, mocking)
• Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent)
• Good debugging, profiling, and performance tuning skills
• Exposure to frontend tooling, bundlers (Webpack, Vite, etc.), state management (Redux, MobX, or other)
• Experience in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) is beneficial
• Leadership / Team Lead Skills
• Previous experience as a team lead or technical lead in software development
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills — able to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to mentor, motivate, and grow team members

Preferred / Nice to Haves

• Experience in full SDLC from concept to production in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of performance, security, and scalability concerns in web applications
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code
• Experience working in fintech, SaaS, or data-intensive domains
• Exposure to additional languages / frameworks (e.g. Python, Go, Java)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of professional experience, including min. 2 as a Team Lead
• Demonstrated track record of delivering production systems and leading technical teams

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation up to 9.500 USD/mth
• Hybrid work mode / remote flexibility
• Opportunity to shape architectural decisions and influence the product roadmap
• A chance to lead cross-functional teams and contribute at both technical and strategic levels
• Professional development, training, conferences, mentorship
• Collaborative, innovation-focused environment
• Access to modern tech stack, tooling, and opportunity to experiment