Hands-On Engineering Team Lead — Dublin (Hybrid)

Medserv; Dundrum; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 21 days

Holiday Plus scheme

Flexi start

Corporate health insurance

Enhanced pension

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Workcation opportunities

Funded gym membership

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Professional development

Sports and social programme

Job summary

Medserv seeks an Engineering Team Lead to guide a five-member engineering team and own end-to-end delivery. The role blends leadership with hands-on coding, around 30% time, while reporting to an Engineering Manager.

You will mentor engineers, align with Product, and ensure system quality and reliability. You will shape delivery processes, manage risks and dependencies, and drive improvements using metrics and AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years directly managing engineers and conducting performance/development conversations.
• Track record of delivering software with a team that shipped it.
• Strong PHP experience, ideally Laravel, with hands-on credibility.
• Experience running agile ceremonies (planning, grooming, retros) and improving team velocity.
• Solid relational database design and MySQL knowledge.
• Ability to identify and address delivery problems and underperformance.

Responsibilities

• Line manage a team of five engineers, including 1:1s, goal setting, feedback and career development.
• Own the team's delivery cycle from planning through to shipping with prioritised work.
• Unblock the team, surface risks early and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Manage relationships with external contractors and ensure quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Delivery ownership

Code contribution

Agile ceremonies

Stakeholder management

Tools

PHP

Laravel

MySQL

React

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Medserv seeks an Engineering Team Lead to guide a five-member engineering team and own end-to-end delivery. The role blends leadership with hands-on coding, around 30% time, while reporting to an Engineering Manager.

You will mentor engineers, align with Product, and ensure system quality and reliability. You will shape delivery processes, manage risks and dependencies, and drive improvements using metrics and AI-enabled workflows.