Team Lead GO
A Team Lead is the day-to-day technical coordinator of a specific team, acting as the execution arm of the EM and ensuring that the team is focused, unblocked, and working efficiently toward shared goals. They ensure smooth operation, coordination, and quality within the team, while escalating architectural, technical, or people matters to the EM. They are accountable for team delivery, individual growth, and operational excellence within their scope.
Technical Leadership, Ownership & Support: Own the day-to-day technical execution within the team, from new features to bug fixes and quality improvements. Ensure the team's code quality through reviews and enforcement of best practices (testing, security, maintainability). Drive code reviews, enforce coding standards, promote testing and documentation, and help the team write robust, production-ready code. Support and contribute to hands-on coding and testing. Lead by example through hands-on development, particularly for complex or critical features. Own delivery of team components and backend capabilities as defined in sprint goals. Facilitate design discussions within the team; escalate complex architecture topics to EM or Architect. Raise and track technical debt; provide input to the EM for prioritization. Facilitate task prioritization, workload balancing, and sprint planning. Track progress, identify risks, and resolve blockers.
Planning & Delivery Coordination: Ensure alignment with PMs, QA, DevOps, and BAs on deliverables. Work closely with PMs, EMs, QAs, and BAs to ensure that deliverables are clearly understood, scoped, and assigned. Break down work items into deliverable tasks in collaboration with PMs and EMs, balancing workload fairly across developers and helping manage priorities during sprints. Actively participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives. Monitor team progress and adjust scope or priorities when needed, escalating blockers to the EM. Maintain transparency on delivery status and keep stakeholders informed of changes, delays, or challenges. Coordinate hand-offs and dependencies within the team and with adjacent teams.
People Leadership & Development: Directly manage engineers on the team (Juniors, Middles, Seniors). Conduct 1:1s, performance evaluations, career growth discussions, and coaching. Provide day-to-day mentoring and guidance to developers, especially junior and mid-level engineers, by answering questions, sharing context, and offering feedback. Foster a positive and inclusive team culture; ensure psychological safety, motivation, and team morale. Participate in team growth activities, including hiring, interviewing, candidate evaluation, and onboarding of new engineers. Identify talent and growth opportunities; support professional development. Partner with EM and Domain Lead to hire, onboard, and retain high-quality engineers. Encourage a sense of ownership and pride in the team's work; celebrate wins and learn from failures together.
Communication & Reporting: Keep EM and PM informed of team progress, risks, and dependencies. Share updates from EM or domain leads with the team. Act as the go-to person for team-level updates in cross-team syncs or sprint reviews. Participate in cross-team discussions to ensure alignment with domain strategy and priorities.
Success Criteria: The team consistently delivers on commitments with high quality. Engineers are growing in skills and autonomy. The team operates efficiently, collaborates effectively, and maintains a healthy culture. Stakeholders trust the team for delivery, transparency, and problem-solving.
- Own the day-to-day technical execution within the team, from new features to bug fixes and quality improvements.
- Ensure the team's code quality through reviews and enforcement of best practices (testing, security, maintainability).
- Drive code reviews, enforce coding standards, promote testing and documentation, and help the team write robust, production-ready code.
- Support and contribute to hands-on coding and testing.
- Lead by example through hands-on development, particularly for complex or critical features.
- Own delivery of team components and backend capabilities as defined in sprint goals.
- Facilitate design discussions within the team; escalate complex architecture topics to EM or Architect.
- Raise and track technical debt; provide input to the EM for prioritization.
- Facilitate task prioritization, workload balancing, and sprint planning.
- Track progress, identify risks, and resolve blockers.
- Ensure alignment with PMs, QA, DevOps, and BAs on deliverables.
- Work closely with PMs, EMs, QAs, and BAs to ensure that deliverables are clearly understood, scoped, and assigned.
- Break down work items into deliverable tasks in collaboration with PMs and EMs, balancing workload fairly across developers and helping manage priorities during sprints.
- Actively participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Monitor team progress and adjust scope or priorities when needed, escalating blockers to the EM.
- Maintain transparency on delivery status and keep stakeholders informed of changes, delays, or challenges.
- Coordinate hand-offs and dependencies within the team and with adjacent teams.
- Directly manage engineers on the team (Juniors, Middles, Seniors).
- Conduct 1:1s, performance evaluations, career growth discussions, and coaching.
- Provide day-to-day mentoring and guidance to developers, especially junior and mid-level engineers, by answering questions, sharing context, and offering feedback.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team culture; ensure psychological safety, motivation, and team morale.
- Participate in team growth activities, including hiring, interviewing, candidate evaluation, and onboarding of new engineers.
- Identify talent and growth opportunities; support professional development.
- Partner with EM and Domain Lead to hire, onboard, and retain high-quality engineers.
- Encourage a sense of ownership and pride in the team's work; celebrate wins and learn from failures together.
- Keep EM and PM informed of team progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Share updates from EM or domain leads with the team.
- Act as the go-to person for team-level updates in cross-team syncs or sprint reviews.
- Participate in cross-team discussions to ensure alignment with domain strategy and priorities.
- 3+ years of development experience with Go
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Ability to design and implement scalable and reliable software solutions
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Git, GitLab, GitLab CI
- Experience with multiple databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, Redis) and messaging services (Kafka, NATS), ideally run in a cloud environment
- Strong system design skills
- REST/RPC transports
- Practical knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with microservices design and development
- Understanding of the importance of a well-organised codebase and documentation
- Strong analytical skills and an open-minded, creative team player mindset
- English: Upper-Intermediate
- Understanding of event-driven architecture
- Understanding of Twelve-Factor App methodology
- CloudEvents
- Experience working with cloud services (GCP/AWS)
- GitOps
- Terraform
- Helm/ArgoCD
- Grafana/Tempo/Loki + Prometheus
- High-load systems
- Experience coordinating complex third-party dependencies
- Responsibility
- Sociability
- Proactivity
- Self-organization
- An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business groups, the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more
- Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed
- Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan - work remotely or on-site with comfort and enjoy the opportunity to build a network of connections with professionals day by day
- Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided
- Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off
- Corporate health insurance program for your well-being
- Referral program - enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get the bonus
- Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences
- Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues
- Free internal English courses
- Yoga classes to help you stay active and energized
- In-house Travel Service
- Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents and news, RedCore clubs for movie / book / pets lovers, special office days dedicated to holidays
- Company events, team buildings
PIN-UP Global is an international holding company that develops technologies, B2B solutions and products for the iGaming industry. Headquartered in Warsaw, the group brings together businesses spanning product development, technology and marketing services for online gaming. It supports a portfolio of companies and brands operating across multiple markets. PIN-UP Global focuses on building advanced technology and products for the gambling sector.
