Remote Senior Engineer & Team Lead - Distributed Systems

Deployteq; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Remote-friendly culture

Ownership culture

Smart, collaborative team

Job summary

Deployteq is seeking a Senior Engineer / Team Lead to guide a distributed development team in building scalable, reliable systems. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver high-quality software while nurturing a strong engineering culture.

You will collaborate with the Technical Product Lead, Principal Architect, Product Owner, and Product Director to translate requirements into epic and user stories, coaching engineers and maintaining momentum in a remote setting.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership or mentoring experience in a remote or distributed team.
• Strong background in building backend systems and scalable architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes-enabled deployments and infrastructure awareness.
• Ability to communicate clearly across roles and translate requirements into tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and set coding standards for the team.
• Mentor engineers in a remote environment and foster ownership.
• Own day-to-day execution and ensure tasks are well-scoped and delivered on time.
• Collaborate with Product Owner and Product Director to refine requirements into epics and user stories.
• Coordinate with Technical Product Lead and Principal Architect on architectural decisions.
• Enforce high engineering standards through code reviews and design discussions.
• Contribute to scalable, distributed system design and architecture decisions.
• Guide the team in Kubernetes-based operations and infrastructure best practices.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration within a remote team.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go (Golang)

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Job description

Deployteq is seeking a Senior Engineer / Team Lead to guide a distributed development team in building scalable, reliable systems. This role blends hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver high-quality software while nurturing a strong engineering culture.

You will collaborate with the Technical Product Lead, Principal Architect, Product Owner, and Product Director to translate requirements into epic and user stories, coaching engineers and maintaining momentum in a remote setting.