Engineering Team Lead

One Peak Partners LLP; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Kraków is seeking a Team Lead to manage a team of engineers. You will oversee delivery and performance while promoting technical excellence and a supportive team culture. Ideal candidates should have strong leadership skills, technical expertise in programming languages like C++ or JavaScript, and experience in mentoring and developing engineers. The role offers an Umowa o pracę contract and various employee perks, including health insurance, additional vacation days, and a cozy office environment.

Benefits

Official employment under Umowa o pracę

Creative tax (KUP 50)

Additional vacation days

Sick leave without doctor's note

Health and Life Insurance

Employee Capital Plan (PPK)

Multisport card compensation

Coverage of professional training

English-speaking club

Polish language classes

Internet and Glasses reimbursement

Cozy office with refreshments

Winter and summer parties

Qualifications

• Strong leadership, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
• Experience leading and mentoring cross-functional teams.
• Ability to align technical direction with product and business goals.
• Proven experience coaching engineers and supporting individual growth.
• Proven ability to cultivate a supportive team environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers, overseeing delivery and performance.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure reliable delivery.
• Coach engineers through feedback and goal-setting.
• Build a supportive team culture fostering inclusion.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Decision-making

Mentoring

Technical strategy alignment

Communication

Tools

C++

Common Lisp

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Job description

About the role

As a Team Lead at Keepit, you’ll manage a team of 5–8 engineers, overseeing delivery, performance, and team growth while nurturing talent. In this role, you’ll be driving innovation, shaping architecture, and promoting engineering best practices across the team.

You will

• Operate with a high level of autonomy, driving the team roadmap and delivering value towards your product area.
• Drive technical excellence and ensure reliable delivery of the team, working closely together with Product Managers and Delivery Managers.
• Guide discussions on a technical level and you are still expected to contribute to the codebase.
• Align engineering priorities with product and business goals.
• Stay connected to the broader company strategy, bringing a "big picture" mindset to technical and cross-functional decisions.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, goal-setting, and career development conversations.
• Help define individual growth paths, encouraging skill development through mentoring and learning opportunities.
• Build a supportive team culture, fostering psychological safety, inclusion and knowledge sharing.

About you

Required qualifications

• Leadership & Communication: Strong leadership, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
• Team Management: Proven experience leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, driving ownership and technical excellence.
• Technical Strategy: Ability to align technical direction with product and business goals, influencing architectural decisions across the team.
• Technical Expertise: Experience with at least one of the following programming languages or frameworks — C++, Common Lisp, JavaScript, TypeScript, or React.
• People Development: Experience coaching engineers, conducting performance reviews, and supporting individual growth.
• Team Culture & Inclusion: Proven ability to cultivate a supportive, inclusive team environment that promotes psychological safety, shared ownership, and open communication.

Nice-to-haves

• Proactiveness in problem solver with a strong business mindset
• Familiarity with backup, storage, or data protection technologies

About us

At Keepit, we're on a mission to help companies protect and secure their cloud data. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices around the globe, we provide the leading SaaS-based data protection platform trusted by organizations worldwide.

Our cloud-to-cloud backup solution ensures that data remains safe, accessible, and uncompromised, no matter what. We believe in building technology that matters, and we do it by uniting talented people around a shared purpose. We care deeply about our craft, explore new ways of solving problems, and strive for excellence together.

We offer

• Official employment – Umowa o pracę contract
• Creative tax (KUP 50)
• 4 additional working days of vacation leave per full calendar year
• 3 days of internal sick leave without a doctor’s note
• Health and Life Insurance
• Employee Capital Plan (PPK)
• Multisport card compensation
• Coverage of professional training sessions, meetups, etc.
• English-speaking club with native speakers
• Polish language classes
• Internet and Glasses reimbursement
• Cosy office in Krakow city centre (Długa, 72) with beverages, fruit, and cookies
• Winter and summer parties, events, team-buildings