Team Lead Backend Developer (Node.js)
We are looking for an experienced Team Lead Backend Developer (Node.js) to join our development teams in Lisbon and lead the backend technologies of our systems. This is a highly hands-on role: you will be actively writing and reviewing code, shaping architecture, and driving technical excellence while mentoring your team.
Your Mission: Lead a small team of backend engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, high-value, and timely releases. Be deeply involved in coding, system improvements, and architectural decisions, while fostering a collaborative, transparent, and growth-oriented environment.
- Lead, mentor, and manage backend engineers through regular one-to-one sessions, feedback, performance evaluations, and individual development plans.
- Actively write, review, and refactor code and directly contribute to building and improving our systems.
- Participate in agile ceremonies (Scrum/Kanban) to ensure team alignment and adherence to agile best practices.
- Enhance system quality by resolving technical debt, optimizing architecture and flows, and performing data cleaning and restructuring.
- Design solutions and make key technical decisions for changes and enhancements.
- Assign tasks and balance workloads within the team to ensure efficient delivery.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers to adopt the latest technologies and drive company-wide engineering initiatives.
- Document domain knowledge, improve engineering standards, and contribute to initiatives that enhance the broader engineering organization.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional backend development experience.
- 3+ years of experience in leadership positions.
- Strong experience with Node.js and modern web development.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure, system design, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, message brokers, 3rd party integrations, and secure development practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, microservices, cloud-based development, and test-driven development is a plus.
- Deep understanding of data structures, coding patterns, and algorithms.
- Experience with agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
- Excellent problem-solving, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong leadership, organizational, and mentoring abilities.
- Upper-intermediate or advanced English.
- Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
- Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members).
- Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes).
- Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
- Urban Sport membership benefit (the most diverse sports and wellness offering in Europe, with more than 50+ activities).
- Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
- Time for proper rest, with 24 non-business days per year and an additional 6 paid sick days.
- Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month.
- Competitive remuneration level with annual review.
- Teambuilding activities.
BrainRocket is a software development and design company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. It builds end-to-end technology products across industries including iGaming, fintech and marketing, covering platform development, payments, CRM, data and AI. The company employs more than 1,300 people, with additional offices in Malta, Poland, Portugal and Serbia, and has delivered over 100 products across 20 markets. BrainRocket positions itself as a full-cycle technology partner engineering software built for scale and performance.
