Software Engineering Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and ongoing maintenance of mirrord’s cloud integration capabilities, which includes queue splitting and database branching.

• Remain actively involved and make contributions to the codebase.

• Collaborate with Kubernetes, cloud services, database systems, message brokers, and various tools and platforms.

• Establish the technical vision for the team and uphold high engineering standards.

• Promote the effective utilization of AI within the team.

• Assist in prioritizing tasks, removing obstacles for engineers, and driving the execution of the roadmap.

• Recruit and mentor engineers as the team expands.

• Collaborate with Product, Solution Engineering, and users to foster adoption and growth.

• Lead the Cloud Integrations Team, responsible for managing users’ cloud services to create nearly separate environments with minimal resource duplication.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in leading engineering teams.

• At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-quality code in Rust, C++, or C.

• Strong communication skills.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.

• Excellent systems-level thinking and ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems.

• Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote-first, startup setting.

• Experience in building developer tools (preferred).

• Experience in creating Kubernetes operators or other components interacting with the Kubernetes API (preferred).

• Familiarity with backend infrastructure tools such as data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options.

• Remote-first work setup.

• Asynchronous-friendly work culture.

• Low-meeting environment.

• Competitive salary.