Engineering Team Lead

ABOUT US

We’re like-minded, curious, excitable people here at Chiliz who work well in teams, spread across the globe. Chiliz is a global blockchain company, which powers Socios.com - the creators of Fan Tokens, and the popular fan rewards platform.

Socios has partnered with some of the world’s best teams, including Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, FC Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, UFC, Galatasaray, Manchester City FC, Davis Cup, and many more.

The curious nature of a Chilizen is what drives this company forward, and since we’re looking to grow even more, apply for your dream role today.

OUR BRANDS & CHANNELS

We are building the web3 infrastructure for sports & entertainment!

Founded in 2018, Chiliz is a blockchain provider focused on the sports and entertainment industry. We build scalable, secure blockchain-enabled solutions that supercharge fan experiences using digital assets.

$CHZ is the native digital token for the Chiliz sports & entertainment ecosystem currently powering Socios.com and the Chiliz Chain blockchain.

Socios.com is a fan engagement and rewards app that allows fans to engage with their favourite teams and clubs through digital assets known as Fan Tokens.

THE ROLE

Due to the continued growth of Chiliz & Socios.com we’re now looking to recruit an Engineering Team Lead to join our Tech team. Made of 130 talented individuals, divided into 19 features teams (each composed of 5 to 10 members) you will have the chance to meet great people from across the globe for whom building the best product is the main goal. Responsible for leading a team of enthusiastic and gifted engineers, the chosen individual will be working closely in chapters with other team leaders in an autonomous and empowering environment where everyone’s opinions are valued.

Ultimately this position will be responsible for building our products with quality and great user experience in mind while working with helpful and motivated people that love sharing their successful findings and mistakes along the way.

Responsibilities & Duties

• As a Team Lead you will be managing one of our multi-chapter feature teams to deliver features across our products
• Be a scrum master for the team, leading and managing scrum rituals. Ensuring smooth planning of the sprints, unblocking team members, ensuring fair play for both business and tech. sides of the team and stakeholders.
• Your main responsibilities are going to be wellbeing and performance of the team
• You will be having regular 1-to-1s with all of the team members building trust between yourself and the team to ensure a stable and healthy work environment.
• You will be conducting the performance review and follow probation periods of your team members.
• Care for the human behind each employee and seek for continuous personal growth and career progression.
• Leading and empowering people with a servant leadership approach in mind while coaching them to fulfill their duties without impediments.
• Making sure that any personal or technical disputes are resolved before turning into conflicts between the members, be that of your team or across other teams.
• Meet stakeholders to understand the “why” of the feature, to be able to better understand and guide team members on what is being built.
• Work with (FE/BE/QA) Tech Leads, Product Owner and engineers of your team and train them in better communication and alignment
• Making sure that knowledge sharing in the team is actively promoted.
• Help maintain clear product backlog with User Stories following Definition of Ready and Definition of Done rules

Requirements

• Have at least 3 year of experience in a similar role or at least 5 years of experience in either Frontend, Backend or QA senior engineering position with experience of mentoring people.
• Understand and have a servant leadership attitude over full-time authoritarian leadership.
• Have a good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies.
• Be a leading figure that people are willing to listen to and follow in a team consisting of different nationalities, from different places around the world working remotely.
• Have empathy toward your colleagues and team members.
• Have very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Be prepared to make tough decisions.
• Have a very good understanding in rare cases, when authoritarian leadership is needed over servant leadership.
• Have basic knowledge of human psychology to be able to understand people better
• You are very outcome oriented and will make sure that team performs in a similar fashion.
• Organize team building activities for your team to bring them together

WHAT WE OFFER

We offer you the chance to grow, to learn, to flex your creative muscles and to work for a project that is providing excitement to thousands of users.

Our interview phase is a 3-step process where you’ll be able to ask us anything and get to know your team too.

From HR right through to your team lead, we need this process to work both ways: It's not just about you fitting in, but about us being the right fit for you too.

Are you ready to work with the world’s best teams? Are you happy to try, fail and bounce back? Are you excited to keep pushing the boundaries of technology?

We’ve got offices across the world, over 30 nationalities in our ranks and the most important superpower of all - flexibility.

Our competitive salaries, wellness allowance, healthcare and pension plan are just the tip of the iceberg. You’ll gain friends, experience and a good challenge, we’ll gain you.

Are you ready?