Engineering Team Lead/ Project Manager

What you’ll drive:

• Delivery ownership and execution: Own predictable, on-time delivery within the team, balancing speed, quality, and sustainability. Track delivery progress, manage end-to-end initiatives, handle ambiguous requirements, and address risks, blockers, and dependencies. Partner with Head of Stream, Tech Lead, and Product Managers to align priorities, technical standards, and scope trade-offs. Provide regular visibility into team progress, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Process improvement and quality assurance: Continuously improve team delivery processes, reducing friction, bottlenecks, and the cost of change. Ensure team compliance with operational standards, SLA adherence, and adoption of stream-level processes and AI-driven solutions. Own deliverable quality for reliability, performance, and maintainability, ensuring capacity is allocated for technical debt reduction in collaboration with Tech Lead.
• People leadership and team development: Directly manage team members, conduct 1:1s, own the performance cycle, set clear goals, and execute PDPs. Drive team engagement, psychological safety, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and onboarding. Participate in the hiring process by defining team needs, interviewing, and making hiring recommendations.
• Resource and capacity management: Optimize team capacity, workload distribution, and on-call rotations to maximize throughput and prevent burnout. Own team-level capacity planning and flag resource gaps to the Head of Stream.

What makes you a GR8 fit:

• Must-have 3+ years of experience in engineering delivery management and people leadership, including direct management of a software development team in a product or platform environment.
• Practical project and delivery management expertise with adaptable methodologies.
• Understanding of team-level resource planning and capacity management.
• Familiarity with engineering practices, CI/CD, and quality assurance processes.
• Ability to work with data and metrics to drive decisions and improve performance.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-team coordination skills across product, engineering, and delivery teams.
• English language proficiency at B2+ level. Ukrainian or Russian language proficiency at B2 level.

Why you’ll love working here:

• Benefits: Cafeteria — annual budget you allocate to: Sports • Medical • Mental health • Home office • Languages.
• Work-life & support: Paid maternity/paternity leave + monthly childcare allowance. 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, emergency time off. Remote-first + tech support + coworking compensation. Team events (online/offline/offsite). Learning culture with internal courses + growth programs.
• Our culture & core values: GR8_TECH culture is how we win — through trust, ownership, and a growth mindset. We move fast, stay curious, and keep it real, with open feedback, room to experiment, and a team that’s got your back. FUELLED BY TRUST: we’re open, honest, and have each other’s backs. OWN YOUR GAME: we take initiative and own what we do. ACCELER8: we move fast, focus smart, and keep it simple. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: we grow through challenges and stay curious. BULLETPROOF: we’re resilient, ready, and always have a plan.