Senior Team Lead, Remote & Kubernetes‑Driven Systems

Deployteq; Huis ter Heide; Remote; EUR 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Flexible hours

Job summary

Deployteq is seeking a Senior Engineer / Team Lead to guide a distributed development team in building scalable, reliable systems. You will combine hands-on coding with people leadership, driving quality and momentum in a remote setup.

You will partner with the Technical Product Lead, Principal Architect, Product Owner and Product Director to translate business requirements into epics and user stories, while coaching engineers and shaping the engineering culture at Deployteq.

Qualifications

• Strong backend software engineering background with experience in building scalable systems.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers, preferably in remote/distributed teams.
• Solid understanding of scalable architectures, APIs, and system integrations.
• Experience with Kubernetes concepts and operations.
• Ability to balance speed and quality and propose options to Product owner for best impact-effort solutions.
• Clear and effective communicator across roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and set coding standards for quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Mentor and guide engineers in a remote environment, fostering ownership and growth.
• Own day-to-day execution, ensuring tasks are understood, scoped, and delivered on time.
• Collaborate with PO/PD to translate business requirements into epics and user stories.
• Collaborate with TPL/PA to implement architectural decisions and refine approaches.
• Drive code reviews and best practices to improve development processes.
• Contribute to design and delivery of scalable, distributed systems.
• Guide the team in Kubernetes-based infrastructure and reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

Deployteq is seeking a Senior Engineer / Team Lead to guide a distributed development team in building scalable, reliable systems. You will combine hands-on coding with people leadership, driving quality and momentum in a remote setup.

You will partner with the Technical Product Lead, Principal Architect, Product Owner and Product Director to translate business requirements into epics and user stories, while coaching engineers and shaping the engineering culture at Deployteq.