Job Description

SmartRecruiters powers Superhuman Hiring™ by freeing talent acquisition teams from legacy applicant tracking software and equipping them with next-gen AI functionality. SmartRecruiters' platform serves as the hiring operating system for 4,000 customers, including Bosch, LinkedIn, and Visa. Companies with business-critical hiring needs turn to SmartRecruiters for best-of-breed functionality, world-class support, and a robust ecosystem of third-party applications and service providers.

We are a values-driven, globally focused tech employer with strong financial backing. By solving the biggest problems, we focus our efforts on what matters most, driving real impact for our organization and customers. For the past three years, we’ve been recognized as a strategic leader in recruitment technology by Fosway Industry Analysts. In 2023 and 2024, we received prestigious awards from Comparably for being a top company for Women, Perks, and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, Culture, and Company Outlook.

At our core, we commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together - because together, we will win. With competitive salaries and strong internal mobility, we ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities. Our remote-friendly culture is welcoming, respectful, and built to empower every team member to thrive.

Our engineering organization is built with small, cross-functional teams where Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers work side by side to solve customer problems. Each team owns a part of our business and takes care of it, from feature ideas to usage analysis.

We are looking for an experienced engineer who would like to grow as a people leader. Engineering Team Leads at SmartRecruiters spend around 50% of their time managing people and collaborating with stakeholders and 50% of their time designing and building products. Team Leads represent their teams externally, help others grow, and ensure the team's discovery and delivery work runs smoothly.

What will you do:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Designers on building the next-generation product
• Oversee roadmap discovery and delivery
• Take ownership of the designated services
• Drive engineering excellence inside the team
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Contribute to a full life-cycle of the product (including problem discovery, prototyping, design, implementation, and measuring adoption)
• Develop and maintain scalable, robust services using Java

Qualifications

• While not strictly required, we see most of our Team Leaders have 7+ years of professional experience
• Experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed web-based systems
• Experience in supporting end-to-end product lifecycle (from product discovery, solutioning, system design, implementation, production rollout, and optimization)
• Passion for supporting team members in their career growth
• Excellent technical project management and communication skills
• Good understanding of agile processes and techniques
• Good command of Java, Spring similar programming language (Kotlin…)
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Databases and PostgreSQL
• Strong domain modeling skills - including refactoring existing domains
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal

Additional Information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.