Software Engineer Team Leader

A well-established international technology company is expanding its Engineering organization in Bucharest and is looking for a Software Engineer Team Leader to lead a team responsible for critical internal platform services.

The company operates at significant international scale, with distributed engineering teams across multiple regions. Its technology platform supports complex, high-volume digital transactions and requires a strong focus on security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.

As a Software Engineer Team Leader, you will play a key role in driving the design, quality, and delivery of the systems owned by your team. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, architectural decision-making, and cross-team

collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, architecture, and delivery of core services and tools your team builds, from technical decisions through production rollout.
• Lead the team in building secure, scalable systems, including authentication, authorization, permissions, and other shared platform capabilities.
• Set the technical bar for code quality, testing, observability, and delivery practices.
• Partner with other engineering teams to align on architecture and integration points.
• Mentor and develop engineers, enabling them to take increasing ownership and responsibility.
• Own systems end-to-end, including operational health, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Lead and contribute to cross-company technical initiatives.

Requirements

You Are

• A proven engineering leader who is comfortable making strategic technical decisions.
• Team-oriented and committed to creating an environment where engineers can develop and succeed.
• Comfortable solving complex technical problems in distributed systems.
• A strong verbal and written communicator who can work effectively with technical

and non-technical stakeholders.

You Have

• Experience with .NET Core and modern software development practices.
• Experience with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Strong experience with microservices architectures and Event-Driven Development (EDD).
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
• Understanding of cloud architectures, particularly AWS.
• Experience with high-scale systems involving authentication, authorization, secrets management, permission models, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience leading cross-company engineering projects.