Team Lead, Engineering | Customer Sandbox

Deel, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Spain

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team of 6–10 professionals, balancing 50% leadership responsibilities with 50% hands-on technical development.
• Design, code, and deliver high-quality, scalable applications using Node.js within the Production Sandboxes Team.
• Mentor team members through technical guidance, code reviews, and structured feedback to foster growth and engineering excellence.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in development, testing, and deployment to maintain high coding standards and system reliability.
• Build and maintain the orchestration UI, automation engines, and data synchronization pipelines that enable safe and efficient use of production-grade data in isolated environments for customers and internal teams.
• Collaborate closely with product and design teams to create exceptional user experiences and align technical execution with business objectives.
• Drive technical planning and execution, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term system health and scalability.
• Implement Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct root cause analysis across code, data, and systems to resolve complex production incidents and debugging challenges.
• Write complex SQL queries from scratch with deep understanding of data structures and query performance impact.
• Debug integrations and system interactions within distributed systems and APIs, ensuring seamless data flow across services.
• Define and execute technical strategies aligned with organizational goals through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and innovation.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks to ensure successful project delivery and operational stability.
• Represent the team in cross-functional discussions, translating technical constraints and opportunities into actionable business insights.
• Push back on product decisions when necessary to prioritize technical health, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Resolve complex, multi-team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across engineering, product, and design disciplines.
• Play an active role in hiring, onboarding, and scaling the engineering team while ensuring alignment with company values and cultural fit.
• Manage performance cycles and support the professional development of team members through regular feedback and career growth planning.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence across the team.
• Champion diversity and create an environment where all team members can thrive and contribute meaningfully.
• Communicate technical challenges, solutions, and priorities effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Maintain production systems by handling incidents, managing escalations, and ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Apply strong object-oriented programming (OOP) principles to design maintainable, scalable systems.
• Write clean, structured, and testable code that meets rigorous quality standards.
• Contribute to a fully remote, globally distributed team spanning 100+ countries, operating in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming (OOP) principles
• Experience designing maintainable, scalable systems with clean, structured, and testable code
• Strong SQL skills: ability to write complex queries from scratch and understand data structure and query performance impact
• Experience working with APIs and distributed systems, including debugging integrations and understanding data flow across services
• Proven ability to conduct root cause analysis across code, data, and systems in production environments
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams with a 50/50 balance of technical contribution and people leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on role, employment status, and location
• Additional perks and benefits tailored to employment status and country
• Flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

Skills & Technologies

JavaScript

Node.js

Senior

Remote

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About Deel, Inc.

Deel is a San Francisco-based payroll and compliance platform that enables businesses to hire, pay, and manage contractors and employees in over 150 countries. It automates onboarding, localized contracts, tax filings, and payments while ensuring adherence to local labor laws. The cloud software integrates with HR and accounting systems, offers visa and immigration support, and provides employer-of-record services for companies without local entities. Founded in 2019, Deel serves thousands of remote-first and distributed organizations, helping them scale global teams quickly and reduce administrative overhead associated with international employment.

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