GR8_TECH - Engineering Team Lead/ Project Manager

• The purpose of this role is to deliver consistent team outputs and outcomes through predictable execution, operational efficiency, and people performance within a single team. The role directly contributes to stream-level business value by ensuring the team reliably produces high-quality deliverables aligned with stream priorities. It combines delivery ownership with people leadership to build a sustainable, high-performing team capable of growing with business demands. • 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. • Benefits Cafeteria — annual budget you allocate to: • Sports • Medical • Mental health • Home office • Languages. • Work-life & support • 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. • FUELLED BY TRUST • OWN YOUR GAME: we take initiative and own what we do. • OWN YOUR GAME • ACCELER8: we move fast, focus smart, and keep it simple. • ACCELER8 • CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: we grow through challenges and stay curious. • CHALLENGE ACCEPTED • BULLETPROOF: we’re resilient, ready, and always have a plan. • BULLETPROOF