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Important part of responsibilities is leading and growing team members. This includes setting and following career path, goals, having regular one on one meetings, monitoring team health and motivation, participation in job interviews and company events.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTeam Leadership: Leading and mentoring the engineering team, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and performance. Contributing to success of project delivery.\n\nHands-on engineering: participating, leading and scheduling agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-up meetings, and retrospectives.\n Collaborating with other team members to gather and understand requirements for new features and enhancements. \n Developing and maintaining front-end web components. Building and consuming RESTful web services and APIs.\n Writing unit tests and integration tests to ensure code quality and maintainability. \nParticipating in code reviews and providing feedback to other team members. \nTroubleshooting and debugging issues. Continuously improving the software development process and practices. \nCommunicating with stakeholders and other team members to ensure project goals are met. Keeping up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends to improve the software and the development process.\n\nJob requirements:\nProven analytical ability, problem-solving and risk management skills.\nAbility to analyse/summarize information and provide insights (reports, recommendations, other forms).\nExperience in managing engineering teams.\nStrong leadership skills.\nMindset for knowledge sharing.\nFluent communication in English.\nDeep experience and track record with one of the backend technologies, it may be Java, .NET or Nodejs.\nExperience with one of the front-end frameworks (like React, Angular or Vue).\nUnderstanding and practical experience with Devops technology stack.\nUnderstanding and practical use of cloud provider services (AWS, Azure, GCP or similar).\n\nWhat we offer:\nOpportunity to be part of a global organization.\nEncouraging working atmosphere, engaging activities, and extra benefits (e.g. additional medical insurance (covers gym subscription), team events, outreach activities, and others);\nHybrid work model with remote work opportunities ( 3/5 days weekly from the office)\nOpen, modern, and ergonomic work environment when working from the office with the multicultural community.\nOpportunity to grow professionally and personally (e.g. Udemy) and continuously develop within the domain.\nThe salary range for this position is from 6000 to 7300 EURO gross before taxes.**Salary offer for the candidate is determined based on the predefined salary ranges for the position and depends on the level of competence and experience of the candidate.\n\nCognizant, as a digital company, makes employee health and safety its top priority. With that in mind, we are implementing virtual hiring and work practices which means all interviews will be conducted online as well as live from the office\nWe will be looking forward to Your CV.\nOnly suitable candidates will be contacted within 7 days from application.\nStay up to date with our website https://www.cognizant.com/lt/en\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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