Software Engineering Team Lead

Work model: 1 day from home, 4 days from the office

Akeyless Security delivers a cloud-native SaaS platform that integrates Vaultless Secrets Management with Certificate Lifecycle Management, Next Gen Privileged Access Management (Secure Remote Access), and Encryption Key Management to manage the lifecycle of all machine identities and secrets across all environments.

Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless is redefining identity security for the modern enterprise, delivering the world’s first unified Secrets & Machine Identity platform designed to prevent the #1 cause of breaches - compromised identities and secrets. Backed by the world’s leading cybersecurity investors and global financial institutions including JVP, Team8, NGP Capital, and Deutsche Bank.

We're looking for an experienced Software Engineering Team Lead to lead a highly skilled team of backend and frontend engineers through implementation, delivery, iteration, and build scalable systems that serve our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a positive, collaborative culture and grow the team’s capabilities.
• Lead and mentor engineers to ensure on-time delivery, quality development, productivity, and efficiency by conducting and lead design reviews & code reviews.
• Work together with product managers to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Balance refactoring and evolution with steady delivery of new features.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee system reliability, monitoring, performance optimization and incident response.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of leadership experience, guiding engineering teams and making architectural decisions.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on scalable architecture and system design.
• Proficiency in modern system architecture with large-scale and high performance.
• Team player with strong communication skills and someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment.
• Creative, solution-oriented, and able to maintain a ‘can do’ attitude, with the ability to work efficiently under pressure and uncertainty with the ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs.
• B.Sc in computer science or equivalent.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with software development in Go.
• Leading a multidisciplinary team with experience in frontend technologies.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and working in microservices distributed environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experienced in B2B Cyber Security / Cloud Security / Identity & Access Management / Encryption Keys Management.