Tech Lead (Python/AWS + React)

HeadHR; Łódź; On-site; PLN 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary

Fully remote work

Long-term cooperation

Job summary

A technology recruitment firm is looking for a Tech Lead to guide software engineering efforts in Łódź, Poland. The role entails leading architecture, mentoring a team, and driving technical decisions around microservices and AWS. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of software development experience and a track record in leadership roles. The position offers a fully remote work arrangement along with attractive salary and long-term cooperation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Tech Lead or Engineering Team Lead role.
• Strong production experience with Python and AWS.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical design of distributed microservices (Python / AWS).
• Drive architectural decisions regarding scalability and security.
• Mentor an R&D team and contribute to backend development.

Skills

Python

AWS

Leadership

Microservices

Event-driven systems

SQL

CI/CD pipelines

React

Communication

English

Tools

Jenkins

Observability tools (e.g. Datadog)

Job description

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in a Tech Lead / Engineering Team Lead role.
• Strong production experience with Python and AWS.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and relational databases (SQL).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• AWS serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions).
• Basic React experience.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Very good English skills

Additional advantages:

• Observability tools (e.g. Datadog).
• Experience in enterprise-scale cloud or SaaS environmens.

Kogo poszukujemy?

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture and technical design of distributed microservices (Python / AWS).
• Drive architectural decisions around event-driven systems, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Lead and mentor an R&D team, setting high engineering standards.
• Stay hands-on: contribute to backend development and support frontend work when needed (React).
• Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred) and promote automation.
• Work closely with other Tech Leads and Architects to ensure technical alignment.

We offer:

• Attractive salary
• Full remote work
• Long, multi-year cooperation