Engineering Team Lead - Delivery, Growth & Cohesion

Sportingtech; Portugal; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sportingtech in Portugal is seeking a Team Lead to guide a cross-functional squad, partnering with Product Owner and Engineering Manager to ensure delivery health, people practices, and long-term team success.

You will drive planning, track metrics, run 1:1s, mentor engineers, support hiring, and coordinate releases with IT Operations, ensuring smooth collaboration across Product, QA, NOC, and performance teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in engineering leadership or team coordination roles.
• Experience in cross-functional product teams with planning cadence and sprint execution.
• Strong stakeholder management with Product Owners and engineering counterparts.
• Good technical fluency, ideally with exposure to Java.
• Strong facilitation, conflict management, and escalation judgement.
• Organised, proactive, and outcome-focused approach to team leadership and execution support.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Product Owner to shape engineering work with clear feasibility, dependencies, sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage engineering coordination for capacity, WIP, and blockers to support predictable delivery.
• Monitor delivery health using metrics and drive corrective actions with leadership.
• Run regular 1:1s focused on engagement, feedback, and growth.
• Improve onboarding, mentoring structures, and team rituals for stronger execution.
• Contribute to hiring through interview participation and onboarding planning.
• Act as the engineering coordination point across Product, QA, NOC, Performance, and other teams.
• Coordinate release readiness with IT Operations, including change management and validation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Java exposure

Facilitation & escalation

Job description

Sportingtech in Portugal is seeking a Team Lead to guide a cross-functional squad, partnering with Product Owner and Engineering Manager to ensure delivery health, people practices, and long-term team success.

You will drive planning, track metrics, run 1:1s, mentor engineers, support hiring, and coordinate releases with IT Operations, ensuring smooth collaboration across Product, QA, NOC, and performance teams.