Development Team Lead

About Podium North

Podium North is a service company based in Tallinn, Estonia. We create websites for media and performance marketing. For websites, we provide a wide range of services like technical development, SEO, visual design, engaging content.

Position

As Development Team Lead, you guide multiple developers and multiple projects. You interface with all departments and stakeholders as you ensure the success of your projects and the development team as a whole. You are responsible for the success of your reports and achieve it by mentoring, challenging and supporting them.

You consider the impact of your decisions across multiple teams and connected systems, and proactively solve problems before they occur, while advancing strategic initiatives and company goals.

You lead technical decision-making with support from other technical leads and Senior Software Developers, lead initiatives and meetings within the team and outside it and motivate and empower your teammates and reports to achieve a higher level of performance.
As Development Team Lead, you are responsible for the success of multiple projects which may consist of collaborating with several team members across various disciplines.

What’s important and where you should spend your time each day

• Write efficient, readable, well-tested code to accomplish tasks and solve technical problems
• Breakdown and prioritize tasks within projects and provide required direction to team members and reports to successfully meet deadlines; departmental and company-wide goals
• Provide consistent and ongoing leadership and support to reports, and mentor them to achieve career and long-term objectives
• Communicate effectively within your team, with your manager, with other teams and with key company stakeholders
• Review and provide feedback on the code of your teammates
• Work with individuals and project teams to accurately estimate technical level of effort based on provided requirements
• Participate in the hiring process and interviews, and provide clear and concise feedback on candidates
• Participate and provide valuable contributions in departmental planning and initiatives
• Mentor other developers to help them learn new technologies, languages or how to grow as developers
• Onboard new hires to accelerate the learning process
• Provide timely and thoughtful feedback, recognition and reviews to reports
• Understand the side effects and trickle-down impact - both current and future - of the changes and decisions you make 
• Identify large roadblocks, lead research and implementation of solutions in line with operational goals 
• Initiate, guide and build development workflow processes and documentation
• Successfully and fairly delegate work to reports to ensure efficient and high-quality work
• Effectively manage the concerns of your reports and facilitate resolutions in a timely manner

Your qualification

• 5+ years Professional Software Development experience
• College Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience 
• Intermediate-level to Expert-level proficiency with at least one object-oriented programming language
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Attentive and responsive to the team and environment
• Committed and dedicated to your work 
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and delegate work
• Self-motivated, independent thinker and worker
• Adaptable and persistent to achieve goals despite roadblocks and change
• Collaborative leader keen to work in a team environment
• Focused on improving the team to meet larger business objectives

What we offer

• Interesting projects ranging from highly speed optimized SEO pages to high traffic media sites 
• If you have flirted with a thought to work and live in Estonia, we will support your relocation process – and we can promise you will find Tallinn as a culturally enchanting city, plus it also has great and safe living environment to offer for your family
• Team vibes are relaxed and interpersonal relationships very good
• Team is international, friendly, humorous, supportive and tight in its best sense
• We invest in our employees through career development
• Generally, we work in the hybrid workplace and practice flat management with a focus on strong self-management
• Office is always open for in-person meetings and socializing (shared breakfasts and lunches are our thing!)
• Our office is located in the center of the city (Narva mnt 7d, Tallinn) and it’s quite spacious and very comfy
• For our employees, we offer starting from the 1st day:flexible holiday planning; sports & wellness compensation by Stebby; digital clinic service by Qvalitas; fully paid first 5 sick days, etc.

Additional details

Who we are

…as a company

Podium North OÜ is a publishing service company based in Tallinn, Estonia and founded in 2015.
We create webpages for media and affiliate sites. For websites, we provide technical development, visual design, engaging content. We manage communities and social media for our partners. We have around 35 people in our international team, some work from Tallinn and some work at other countries. We are operating in Finnish, Japanese, and Baltics markets.

…as a team

As professionals, we value autonomy, clear communication and motivation for self-development that results in satisfying real-time work experience. We support ongoing learning, unique strengths, and self-management. This means that you know your responsibility and your goals and if necessary, you will initiate getting greater expert in the areas that can result in better business outcomes – company gets you covered and offers you a lot of freedom and flexibility in return. Freedom to work without micro-management, as few meetings as possible and flexibility to choose your own work schedule and locations. Of course, keeping in mind the business and team’s needs, is essential. There is no business without teamwork.

…as a family

We believe that relaxed atmosphere and respectful and caring team relationships help to power up the hard-working individuals. For that, we enjoy our weekly get-togethers at shared lunches and team events. We value highly creating the laid-back and trustful environment for our work family, and enjoy the time spent together. At remote and hybrid working times, social contacts & events have special meaning for us. Either creating an opportunity to ‘work and play’ together remotely from warmer locations in wintertime, or finding opportunities to take on some after-hours sporting challenges together, throwing a spontaneous karaoke-battle, or you name it. Every new team member brings something new along to share and discover!