Engineering Team Leader

At Optimove, we believe people are capable of more than a single job description. You’re not hired just to fill a position- you’re empowered to shape it, grow it, and make it your own.
We call this being Positionless.
And Positionless isn’t just our culture. It’s our product.
Optimove is the creator of Positionless Marketing, an AI-powered platform that gives every marketer the power to analyze, create, launch, and optimize independently. The result is faster execution, deeper personalization, and 88% greater campaign efficiency.
Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, we partner with leading brands like Sephora, Staples, and Entain. Today, more than 550 Optimovers across NYC, London, Tel Aviv, Scotland, Brazil, Estonia, and beyond are building the future of marketing together, in an environment that actively encourages ownership and growth, with two out of every three managers promoted from within.
If you’re looking for a place where you can do more, be more, come grow with us.

Based in Dundee, Scotland, our R&D operation is a dynamic environment, where every developer can impact the flow of technology – from introducing the smallest library to making big infrastructure changes. We welcome open-minded developers who like to share knowledge and help each other to push Optimove forward using the cutting edge of today’s tech. We are looking for talented developers, strong and energetic A-players interested in developing cutting-edge technology to make an impact on our company and on the entire MarTech industry. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead, mentor, motivate and inspire an agile team of developers. 

• 50-70% hands-on, design and develop full-stack, end-to-end solutions in a scalable micro-services environment

• As a data-driven company, you will work with multiple database types (e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, Redis, Mongo) and event streaming systems (e.g. Amazon SQS, Google Pub/Sub). We want you to identify and implement improvements to data quality, reliability, performance & efficiency at the level of the whole system.

• Work autonomously and collaboratively within the team and with Product Managers, UX Designers, Customer Success, DevOps and other development TLs to implement creative and robust solutions to various product and customer challenges.

• See the full picture. Own your team’s features and code from design to production and support, including automated testing and deployment.

Requirements:

• B.Sc. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent.

• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable web architectures. 

• Passion for clean, readable code and a responsive, high-performing web experience. 

• 5+ years of experience developing backend services in one of Python, Rust or Node.js

• Javascript or Typescript experience with a modern framework (e.g. React, Angular)

• Experience with Cloud Services (e.g. GCP, AWS or Azure)

• Experience of automated unit-testing and CI/CD pipelines

• Knowledge of SQL database design

• Experience mentoring junior developers

• Strong leadership skills to motivate and build a winning team. 

• Working in a hybrid model from the office in Dundee.

• Eligible to work in the UK (we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time).

Advantages:

• Experience as a Scrum Master or Team Leader. 

• Understanding of micro-services architecture.

• Knowledge of no-SQL database design.

• Experience with event stream processing.

• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker) and orchestration (e.g. K8S).

• Experience with mobile app or SDK development.

• AWS, GCP or any other certifications.

• Experience of working in a global organization with geographically distributed teams.