R&D Team Lead

About The Company:

The5ers is a leading tech company that empowers traders worldwide with innovative financial solutions and services to enhance their knowledge and skills. Its flagship brands, The5ers and Trade The Pool, operate as private equity funds, offering unique career advancement opportunities for traders. These include tailored scaling plans designed to increase capital levels and maximize profits.

As the company continues to expand, it is developing new brands and products to create a comprehensive ecosystem—one that fosters growth, learning, and collaboration within the world’s largest trading community.

Position Overview:

As the R&D Team Lead, you will be part of a highly talented and motivated development engineers responsible for high-scale production systems. This role involves leading a team of skilled engineers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality navigation solutions at scale, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

What will you do?

• Mentor and Grow: Actively lead and mentor team members, supporting their professional development and career growth
• Drive Innovation: Design, develop, and maintain our web application using Node.js and React.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with product managers and UX/UI teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Continued improvement: Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of proven experience leading software development teams.
• At least 4 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in the cloud. Leveraging microservices, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub solutions, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, etc.
• Full stack development background, specifically Node.js (Nest.js) and React.
• Knowledge of database systems like MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Excellence in system architecture and API design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Advantages

• Experience in Next.js
• Experience working with offshore teams
• BSc in computer science or a related field