The responsibility 

Do you possess a strong agile mindset? Do you consider yourself to be a technical thought leader? Then you could be the Engineering Team Lead we're looking for!

You will be joining a team of talented developers and testers from diverse backgrounds who are passionate about what they do. You'll be responsible for driving the team's deliveries as well as improving the team's agile processes, collaborating with the Product Owners, stakeholders and other teams.

You'll have prior technical experience in delivering scalable, high-performant distributed applications. You love the idea of working with a mission-critical product with millions of end-users and zero downtime.

Being experienced in Agile and Lean development, you enjoy responsibility and care as much about developing teams agile process as developing software. Communication, coordination and team spirit are key components in getting things done.

Kindred Group believes in the growth and empowerment of our people. We promote an open and proactive culture where our developers and testers are encouraged to learn and contribute in ways outside the usual development work.

What you will do

• “You Design it, You Build It, You Test It, You Run It, You Tweak It” this is our ethos, and you will be expected to take part of the full software life cycle to ensure reliability and up-time of the production environment
• Motivate the team and keep up the team spirit, ensure all team members feel included and part of the team
• Continuously improve team performance and processes and align ways of working with other Engineering Team Leads.
• Responsible to ensure that the team lives up to the team expectations. In example: Addressing issues in the team dynamics to help the team reach its full potential
• Drive the team's delivery to production, ensuring technical details are analyzed, coordinating across teams and backlogs
• Perform backlog grooming, estimations and workload forecast with the team and Product Owner
• Be the first point of contact for the business and other development teams, being knowledgeable about your team's products
• Work closely as a tight knit team together with Product Owner and Engineering Manager for the team
• You will work as Engineering Team Lead with one or two development teams 

Success in the role 

• Acting in line with Kindred Group values
• Demonstrate a passion for continual improvement
• Understand how to work with the team dynamics and can guide the team to higher levels of performance 
• The team is highly functioning, challenged, and motivated
• Effective communication within the team and with stakeholders
• Ability to facilitate and continuously improve the team's processes. Ensure the team is aligned with Kindred Development processes, actively seek to develop, and enhance the agile process used by the team
• Ensuring that the team commits to work and delivers accordingly
• Robustness of technical delivery, high performance under load, low number of incidents
• Ability to maintain the balance between requirements and bug fixes, ensuring technical debt is addressed
• Incidents are properly prioritized and addressed within the team
• Gains technical as well as business domain knowledge, involves others and is willing to share and spread their knowledge