
Engineering Team Lead – E-commerce Platform
AutoDS - Automatic Dropshipping Tools
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Job Level
About the role
- Lead a cross-functional product team
- Take responsibility for delivery, technical direction, and team effectiveness in a multi-stack environment
- Full ownership of delivery for the product team across two products
- Planning, prioritization, and execution to ensure predictable outcomes
- Ownership of technical decisions and system evolution across Python, PHP, and React stacks
- Maintaining and raising engineering standards, including testing and quality practices
- Close collaboration with Product, Data, QA, and other stakeholders
- Early identification and mitigation of delivery, quality, and technical risks
- Coaching, mentoring, and performance management of team members
- Pragmatic improvement of team structure, processes, and workflows
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Experience leading teams in multi-stack environments (e.g., Python + PHP)
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional product teams
- Strong execution focus: turning plans and commitments into shipped results
- High level of autonomy in technical and tactical decision-making
- Ability to enforce processes while improving them pragmatically
- Experience with Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum
- Strong backend engineering background, preferably PHP or Python (5+ years of commercial experience)
- Experience building and maintaining APIs
- Solid understanding of databases and data consistency (MySQL, MongoDB)
- Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Celery)
- Familiarity with distributed or service-oriented architectures
- Practical experience with CI/CD, production support, and incident handling
- Ability to assess architecture and code quality across backend and frontend stacks
- Experience with WordPress-based products (Nice to have)
- Exposure to React-based frontends (Nice to have)
- Experience scaling or stabilizing newly launched products (Nice to have)
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Structured, analytical thinking
- Clear, direct communication
- Ukrainian or Russian: native
- English: Intermediate or higher
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonPHPReactAgile methodologiesScrumAPIsMySQLMongoDBRabbitMQCelery
Soft Skills
leadershipexecution focusautonomyprocess improvementanalytical thinkingcommunicationcoachingmentoringteam effectivenessownership