Team Lead FullStack

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