Team Lead (Software Engineering)

Want to shape both code and culture? At Keepit, you’ll lead a talented team solving complex challenges in performance, scalability, and security - with the freedom to influence architecture, process, and people.

About the role

As a Team Lead at Keepit, you’ll manage a team of 5-8 engineers, overseeing delivery, performance, and team growth while nurturing talent. In this role, you’ll be driving innovation, shaping architecture, and promoting engineering best practices across the team.

You will:

• Operate with a high level of autonomy, driving the team roadmap and delivering value towards your product area.

• Drive technical excellence and ensure reliable delivery of the team, working closely together with the Product Manager.

• Lead technical discussions, guide engineering decisions, and support the team through code reviews and technical mentorship. Hands-on contributions to the codebase are welcome but not required.

• Align engineering priorities with product and business goals.

• Stay connected to the broader company strategy, bringing a "big picture" mindset to technical and cross-functional decisions.

• Coach engineers through regular feedback, goal-setting, and career development conversations.

• Help define individual growth paths, encouraging skill development through mentoring and learning opportunities.

• Build a supportive team culture, fostering psychological safety, inclusion and knowledge sharing.

About you

Must-haves:

• Strong leadership, collaboration, and decision-making skills.

• Proven experience leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, driving ownership and technical excellence.

• Ability to align technical direction with product and business goals, influencing architectural decisions across the team.

• Experience with at least one of the following programming languages or frameworks - C++, Common Lisp, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.

• Experience coaching engineers, conducting performance reviews, and supporting individual growth.

• Proven ability to cultivate a supportive, inclusive team environment that promotes psychological safety, shared ownership, and open communication.

Nice-to-haves:

• Proactivness in problem-solving with a strong business mindset

• Familiarity with backup, storage, or data protection technologies

About us

At Keepit, we're on a mission to make cloud data protection simple, reliable, and built to last. Our platform provides customers with an immutable, historical archive of their data in systems such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Zendesk.

We protect our customers against everything, from ransomware to simple accidents.

We pride ourselves on backing up hundreds of petabytes of data in a performant, reliable, and predictable way.

As we collaborate across locations, English is our primary language. Please submit your CV in English to support the review process.

We offer:

• Official employment (Umowa o pracę).

• 4 additional working days of vacation per full calendar year.

• 3 days of internal sick leave without a doctor's note.

• Health and life insurance.

• Employee Capital Plan (PPK).

• Multisport card compensation.

• Coverage of professional training, meetups, and conferences.

• English-speaking club with native speakers and Polish language classes.

• Internet and glasses reimbursement.

• Office in Krakow city centre (Dluga 72) with beverages, fruit, and snacks.

• Regular team-building events, winter and summer parties.

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