Team Lead (Remote in Spain Possible)

Do you have a strong technical background and the experience to make your teammates excel on their tasks? Can you lead and guide our talented and self-motivated software engineers across several locations? Are you ambitious about solid software engineering? Do you enjoy making distributed and highly scalable services in the cloud? Then this might just be what you are looking for!

The role you’ll play

As Tech Team Lead you will have the unique opportunity to recruit new team members and lead team in one of our Tribes. The product you will own is the cornerstone of our business. Thousands of high-profile enterprise customers use it to translate hundreds of millions of words yearly in more than 700 language pairs using AI based natural language processing services. And we eat our own dogfood: the LanguageWire delivery team and a community of more than 7000 linguistic experts rely on it to do their job, 24x7. You and your team will be responsible for lifting the product to the next level of scalability and functionality. 

You enjoy working with people, grooming new talents, or inspiring our senior developers to do even better. You are fluent in C# and take great pride in delivering sound and scalable solutions. The team will work with both backend and frontend features, utilizing microservices and cloud technology.

The team you’ll be a part of

You will join one of our most important tribes and lead one of the teams there. The Tribe consists of two engineering teams with 11 dedicated people and one team of application support. We need your help to find smart engineers and to empower the current team of around 6-7 people. You will work closely with the other engineering  team working in a distributed and international setup, as well as the Director of the tribe who will also be your direct leader.

The team develops and maintains, among other things, the customer and translator portal, the workflow orchestration engine, an internal API and much more. We moved the product to the cloud and want to move to API first and there’s a huge roadmap packed with great product ideas that will keep us busy for the years to come. Our team handles both the Frontend (written in JavaScript and Typescript) and several backend micro-services including the data persistence layer (created using .NET 5 and running on Kubernetes clusters in Azure).

You’ll report to our Director of the Tribe, and you’ll work closely with our Senior Director of Technology and two other Team Leads within the Tribe.

If you want to make a difference, make it with us by…

• Leading your team in personal and professional growth ensuring they have what they need to succeed.
• Analyzing business requirements and designing scalable cloud native solutions
• Working closely with our Product Managers to analyze business requirements, designing scalable cloud native solutions and delivering working solutions to production
• Contributing actively to the code base by taking part of the implementation and code reviews
• Operating the software from design phase to production, ensuring that users have a great experience. You build it - You run it

In one year, you’ll know you were successful if…

• You will have successfully hired and on-boarded the remaining team members completing the new team!
• You’ve helped our software developers to improve the usability, functional coverage, and scalability of our LanguageWire product
• You and the team are proud about your products and work

Desired experience and competencies

What does it take to work for LanguageWire?

What you’ll need to bring

• Fluent in English and clear communication
• Team lead experience of at least 2 years
• Able to motivate and engage with engineers. You must be a likeable person!
• Strong engineering experience working with high performance software and agile mindset
• You are passionate about writing solid code and clean architecture
• Solid experience with C#, .Net Core, SQL, micro services and APIs in a SaaS setup
• Experience working with Cloud Services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ElasticSearch, etc.)
• Experience with automated testing, code quality tooling, security tooling and CI/CD

This will make you stand out

• Experience working for a tech enabled LSP before
• Experience in automated data transformation
• Experience migrating legacy into microservices

About LanguageWire

Most important things to know about us:

• We eliminate language barriers, so