Team Lead, Software Engineering

Role

A Team Lead, Software Engineering leads a team of technical professionals, collaborating closely with the product manager, designer, and research lead to deliver exceptional customer experiences. The position is responsible for the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of complex software systems, while also providing leadership in performance and project management. This position requires deep senior technical expertise combined with people and project leadership capabilities to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Duties and responsibilities 

Software Design 

• Provide design and architectural guidance for complex software applications, components, and modules while assessing and evaluating team recommendations. 
• Ensure the team uses appropriate modelling techniques in line with agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns, and methodologies. 
• Accountable for the overall delivery of multiple design view to address stakeholder concerns and meet both functional and non-functional requirements, including security.
• Provide leadership to identify, evaluate, and recommend design alternatives and trade-offs. 
• Address any concerns in model, and simulate, or prototype proposed software behaviours to secure stakeholder approval and facilitate effective software construction.
• Review, verify, and enhance own designs against specifications and lead reviews of others' designs.
• Evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of current processes, products, and programs by applying research insights and integrating emerging technologies from the team.

Leadership and Performance Management

• Provide operational direction, support, and guidance to the team. 
• Allocate tasks or project work, in line with team objectives and individual capabilities. 
• Assess quality and performance against established criteria in line with set policies, practices, and procedures to make learning recommendations or escalate concerns.
• Coach colleagues in developing target skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals.
• Provide input for performance discussions regarding direct reports, including promotions and other employment decisions.
• Facilitate effective working relationships between team members.
• Participate in bi-annual performance reviews. 

Project Management 

• Take full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects. 
• Provide effective leadership to the project team, adopting suitable project management methods and tools. 
• Manage change control processes and assesses risks, ensuring projects align with governance frameworks and business priorities.
• Communicate regularly with cross functional stakeholders, ensuring project deliverables meet agreed standards, budgets, and timelines. 
• Ensure project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
• Proactively monitor performance metrics, implementing preventive and corrective actions as needed. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent. 
• 7+ years working in relevant Software Engineering roles, including Senior Software Engineer.
• 1+ years leading a team either formally or informally.
• Proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience building modern Single Page Applications (SPAs) with frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture and best practices for building and deploying scalable and reliable applications.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Expected to actively participate in code reviews and set a high bar for code quality across all technologies.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in complex applications.
• Strong ability to articulate complex technical concepts to the team and other stakeholders.
• Solid experience in an Agile/Scrum environment and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines. 

In addition, the position requires the following attributes:  

• Be able to work autonomously within a clear accountability framework, using discretion to address complex issues, while planning, monitoring, and escalating when needed to meet objectives within time and quality targets. 
• Ability to influence stakeholders at an account level, contribute to cross-functional teams to meet user needs, facilitates collaboration, and make decisions impacting project success, while participating in activities related to your expertise.
• Proficiency in handling diverse, complex technical or professional tasks, resolve issues through investigation, creative thinking, and innovative approaches.
• Communicate complex ideas effectively, drive personal and team development, evaluate technologies, apply expertise to proposals, and ensure security, privacy, and ethical practices.
• Possess deep industry and domain knowledge, quickly adapt to new information, and apply expertise effectively while sharing knowledge with others. 

Working conditions 

Seequent is a global company, and flexibility in working hours may be required to accommodate work across different time zones. 
Tier 3, after hours support may be required on occasion. 

Direct Reports 
The Team Lead, Software Engineering is responsible for managing a team of approximately 3 to 10 direct reports. This encompasses positions from Associate to Senior Software Engineers, as well as Software Testers, and/or Application Specialists.