Fullstack Team Lead

A fast-growing B2B SaaS company in the hospitality and online ordering space is seeking a hands-on Fullstack Engineering Team Lead to own a core product team and drive its technical direction. In this role, you will lead a distributed team (including offshore engineers), remain deeply involved in coding and architecture, and build scalable, high-traffic systems used by customers worldwide.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Fullstack Team Lead to lead a core product team, combining technical ownership, architecture, and people leadership. You will design and deliver end-to-end features across web and backend, integrate with third-party systems, and continuously improve performance, scalability, and code quality. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data stakeholders to translate business requirements into impactful engineering solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a fullstack engineering team, including offshore developers, while setting high engineering standards and conducting code reviews.
• Own the design and implementation of scalable architectures, services, and APIs in a modern microservices environment.
• Stay strongly hands-on (around 50%–70% of the time) across backend and frontend codebases.
• Work closely with Product and business stakeholders to plan and deliver roadmap items on time and with high quality.
• Drive best practices in CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, and incident response for production systems.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend development with Node.js (JavaScript/TypeScript).
• 3+ years of modern frontend experience (Vue.js is a plus; React/Angular also relevant).
• 2+ years in a team lead or tech lead role, leading delivery end-to-end.
• Proven experience designing scalable systems and RESTful APIs.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and MongoDB.
• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ, AWS, and containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong testing mindset and production-grade coding standards.
• Fluent professional English, comfortable working daily with distributed/offshore teams.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Storybook and/or design systems.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and alerting in production environments.
• Background in high-traffic or real-time systems.

About You:

• A hands-on technical leader who enjoys both writing code and developing people.
• Ownership-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking responsibility for complex domains end-to-end.
• A strong communicator, able to align stakeholders and translate business needs into clear technical plans.

If this sounds like you and you want to lead a core fullstack team in a high-impact, fast-paced product environment, we’d love to hear from you- please send your CV or LinkedIn profile via direct message.