Team Leader (Backend)
Description
We are looking for a Team Leader (Backend) to join our fast-growing business group. You will be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more. We offer a great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset. This is an exciting and challenging job where you will have the opportunity to take your career to the next level with PIN-UP.
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day technical execution within the team – from new features to bug fixes and quality improvements.
- Ensure team’s code quality via reviews and enforcement of best practices (tests, 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 / testing. Lead by example through hands-on development, particularly for complex or critical features. Own delivery of features and components 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.
- Keep track of technical debt and highlight priorities to the EM for future planning.
- Facilitate task prioritization, workload balancing, and sprint planning.
- Track progress, identifies risks, and resolves 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 juniors and mids, - by answering questions, sharing context, and offering feedback.
- Foster a positive and inclusive team culture; ensure psychological safety, motivation, and team morale.
- Identify talent and growth opportunities; supports 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 the 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.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience with Golang.
- 2+ year of experience in a Technical Lead or Team Lead role.
- Strong expertise in Go and microservices architecture.
- Experience designing and implementing REST and RPC services.
- Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
- Practical experience with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid experience with multiple databases – RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL, Redis, etc.
- Experience working with messaging systems (NATS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
- Understanding of software engineering best practices – unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and clean code principles.
- Strong knowledge of scalable, distributed systems design and reliability engineering.
- Hands-on experience in containerized environments and CI/CD automation.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Knowledge of the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) or similar monitoring/observability solutions.
- Experience with at least one frontend technology (Angular or React)
- Python experience
- Strong leadership and mentorship abilities.
- High sense of ownership.
- Mature, solution-oriented mindset.
- Excellent team collaboration skills.
- Strong delegation skills.
Benefits
- 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
About Pin-Up Global
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.