Backbase
(RD) Engineering Team Lead
At our new Business Development Center in Krakow - the heart of Backbase Poland - the best traits of our global and diverse culture come together. Here, our international R&D and Customer Success departments continuously work together to share ideas, remove barriers and strengthen our path forward. As craftspeople, we’ve built an internal culture that’s designed to help you succeed. Together with some of the greatest minds in the business, you’ll have the freedom to experiment and further develop your ideas - becoming an essential part of our business and truly making a difference. Hurry up and find us in the High5ive building in the business center of Krakow, before we make the move to a bigger location due to rapid growth!
The ETL is the "Captain" of a single squad. This is a "player-coach" role focused on delivery predictability, people leadership, and day-to-day execution. You are a Senior+ Engineer who manages people, not a manager who used to code; if you cannot open the IDE and debug a production issue, you cannot perform this role.
What you'll do
* Delivery Mastery: Optimize the team’s "Idea to Production" cycle time and strengthen delivery predictability.
* Talent Density: Own 1:1s, performance calibration, hiring decisions, and succession planning for your squad of 6–9 engineers.
* Hands-on Leadership: Spend ~50% of your time on system design and ~20% on hands-on development like code reviews and unblocking technical issues
* Conflict Resolution: Mediate interpersonal or cross-team conflicts early to protect team cohesion and delivery.
* BS Detector: Use your technical depth to spot unrealistic estimates, fragile designs, or risk blind spots.
* Emergency Response: During critical incidents, jump in technically or coordinate the response effectively.
* AI-Native Engineering: Lead the adoption of agentic tooling, LLM workflows, and AI automation within your team to accelerate the development lifecycle.
Who you are
* You have 5+ years of experience and have shipped production code recently
* You have an explicit desire to lead people but remain an active technical contributor
* You possess high emotional intelligence and resilience under pressure
* You are a strong unblocker who translates and synthesizes rather than just relaying messages.