Technical Team Lead

Who we are

Welcome To Gaelvert! We are on a mission to transform product development with cutting-edge teams capable of tackling complex challenges. As part of a young and ambitious organization, your contributions will have a direct impact on both your success and ours.

If you’re passionate about tech challenges, love working on cutting-edge projects, and want to join a creative and enthusiastic team in our located Dublin office, we’d love to hear from you. Be part of our exciting journey! 🚀

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and experiences. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are dedicated to ensuring equal opportunities throughout our recruitment process.

What you'll do

As a Team Technical Lead, you'll lead a high-performing backend engineering team responsible for delivering the real-time APIs that power our products and services. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll spend the majority of your time designing, building and improving software while providing technical direction and mentoring the team.

You'll work closely with architects, product managers, project managers and engineers to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable and delivered to a high engineering standard.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the technical delivery of a team of backend engineers, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Remaining hands-on in software development, contributing to architecture implementation, coding, code reviews and technical problem solving.
• Driving engineering excellence through best practices, high-quality code, automated testing and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring our APIs meet performance, scalability and reliability expectations, including latency, accuracy and availability targets.
• Managing technical risks, dependencies and technical debt, particularly around integrations with external data providers.
• Collaborating with architects to implement technical solutions aligned with the wider engineering strategy.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and regular feedback.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding and the technical assessment of new engineers.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, customer-focused solutions while continuously improving our engineering practices.
• Taking part in on-call rotations, responding to production incidents, and helping us learn and improve from every incident

What you'll bring

We're looking for an experienced technical leader who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges while helping others grow. Experience within real-time data platforms, sports data, feed aggregation, or other latency-sensitive environments would be highly beneficial

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience, including several years in a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer or similar leadership role.
• Proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and APIs.
• Strong experience working with event-driven architectures and production systems with demanding uptime and performance requirements.
• A passion for mentoring engineers and creating high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement, engineering quality and delivery excellence.

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What you will work with

• Java 21 and Spring suite (Spring Boot, Spring security..)
• Reactive Programming (Project Reactor / Netty)
• Asynchronous APIs
• Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• ArgoCD
• CI/CD pipelines
• PostgreSQL
• DBUnit
• TDD / BDD
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Micrometer

What's in it for you

• Hybrid work model: Split your time between working remotely and coming to the office 3 days a week.
• Co-working space in the heart of Dublin.
• 25 Days Annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Private Medical Insurance
• Gym reimbursement
• My learning pocket
• Work from anywhere
• Pension Plan
• Cycle to Work Scheme & Tax Saver Ticket Scheme

Work Eligibility: Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship, support work permit applications, or offer relocation assistance for this position. Applicants must have the legal right to work full-time in Ireland at the time of application.