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The ideal candidate started their career technically and has a good understanding of software engineering within a high-tech start/scale-up, and grew into or is now ready for a team lead role. \nYour key responsibilities will be:\nOwn the results delivered by your team. You lead day-to-day development; assign tasks, track progress, ensure timely delivery and high quality.\nMentor engineers, foster collaboration, and motivate the team to reach company and personal objectives.\nSet coding standards and best practices for maintainable solutions.\nWork with product teams to translate business needs into technical specifications.\nImplement and enforce testing practices to deliver reliable software.\nEncourage new ideas and own engineering processes to drive continuous improvement.\nRepresent Guardsquare’s R&D values, its products and its culture.\nRequirements:\nMasters in computer science with 5+ years of experience, of which at least 3 as a Team Lead\nProven track record of achieving results with teams\nExperience setting performance goals and performing appraisals\nStrong programming fundamentals\nPrevious experience with low level programming is an asset\nDeep knowledge of Java or C++ is also a nice plus\nA no-nonsense and pragmatic attitude, continuously raising the bar\nExcellent English communication\nUnderstanding the value of in-person leadership in a hybrid work environment\nWhat Guardsquare offers you\nA full time job with a competitive salary package\nYou are provided with the tools & flexibility to develop yourself successfully \nAn international environment where you will interact with motivated & open colleagues with different backgrounds\nA workplace where you can share and implement your ideas\nA hybrid work policy, which helps guarantee an excellent work-life balance\nAt Guardsquare, we take pride in being a diverse and multicultural company with team members representing numerous nationalities. We value different perspectives and opinions throughout the business which has contributed to our being the market leader in mobile application security.\nYou will be part of a dynamic team that strives for excellence and focuses on continuous education and enhancement in skills. We encourage & empower our trusted colleague s to share their opinions, actively collaborate, and continue to learn and grow.\nDo you want to make a difference? What are you waiting for? Join us! \nYou can apply for this opportunity by filling out the application form below! \nAbout Guardsquare\nGuardsquare offers the most complete approach to mobile application security on the market, delivering the highest level of protection, with ease. Guardsquare integrates seamlessly across the full development cycle, from mobile app security testing and code hardening to real-time threat detection and API security. Guardsquare provides enhanced mobile application security across the entire development process.\nMore than 1,000 customers worldwide across all major industries rely on Guardsquare to help them identify security risks and protect their mobile applications and SDKs against reverse engineering and tampering in the ever-evolving threat landscape.\nGuardsquare is based in Leuven (Belgium) with offices in Ghent (Belgium), Boston (USA) and Munich (Germany).","description_format":"text","description_chars":3549,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Upper-Intermediate (B2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Application Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T17:31:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.141,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":355,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/guardsquare-rd-team-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/guardsquare-rd-team-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T01:59:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1633,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3367,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}