Would you like to become a part of the team in the leading online recruitment portal in the Middle East, which is currently establishing an office in Warsaw? The company offers an exciting, internation al working environment and modern IT tools. If yes, we'd be delighted if you joined us as an experienced IT Team Leader. 

Our client's platform is used by over 7 million experienced professionals from all sectors and job categories. It serves as the primary source of both local and expatriate talent to over 8,000 of the largest employers and recruitment agencies across the region.

Founded in 2005, the company has transformed the region’s online recruitment landscape through its innovative approaches as well as its relentless obsession with quality and excellence.

The company is run by a seasoned team of young professionals with diverse backgrounds across different industries, including technology, finance, sales and recruitment. The team also brings together a wealth of international experience across four continents.

IT Team Leader - Agile/Scrum - 6k USD/month contract 12m+

Responsibilities:

• Managing the entire software development lifecycle including technical analysis, architecture design, software development, QA, release to staging/production and maintenance
• Managing full stack development of GulfTalent’s platform, based on Symfony 2, Angular JS, Bootstrap, Sass, MySQL, Sphinx, Gearman, LXC/OpenVZ containers and Ansible
• Providing organisational as well as technical leadership to the team including motivating and coaching the team, workflow management and monitoring, maintaining quality standards, and direct hands-on involvement in critical or challenging problems
• Architecture design and code reviews
• Interacting with various stakeholders as needed including senior managers, sales team, end users and technology partners
• Making recommendations on technology and infrastructure choices faced by the business, based on in-depth reviews and analysis of available options
• - Involvement in selection and management of technology partners and service providers, including hosting/hardware provider, CDN provider, mobile apps developers, integration partners etc.
• Involvement in interviewing and selection of new technical hires, as well as performance reviews and appraisals of team members
• Essential requirements
• Previous experience of managing front-to-back software development lifecycles using Agile/Scrum
• Advanced knowledge of the technologies powering the GulfTalent’s platform
• 5+ years experience in programming
• Ability to provide the high-level technical vision that fulfills the needs of both business and engineering, and back it up by being able to resolve any low-level issues that may occur in the design/implementation
• Proven leadership experience and the ability to manage senior stakeholders across all areas of the business
• - An ongoing commitment to providing a market leading service for internal stakeholders and for our international community
• Deep personal interest in following new trends in technology coupled with pragmatism regarding their use in production 
• Degree from a leading university, ideally in Computer Science

Target candidate profile (nice to haves):

• 10+ years experience in programming, ideally in various languages with focus on web
• 3+ years experience in managing development
• Agile evangelist, certified Scrum Master
• Experience and preference for working in middle-size organisations
• Exposure to international/multicultural workplaces

KPIs:

• Timely and predictable delivery
• Fulfilling the needs of the product owner
• Team’s morale and personal growth
• Site uptime
• Site performance