Engineering Team Lead

Team Lead Engineering

At Phrase, we help open the door to global business by providing the complete Phrase Localization Platform, which is built to cover the full range of translation and localization use cases for companies of all sizes. With a global team working from our offices in Prague and Hamburg—or from home across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region—we serve thousands of global customers, including leading brands such as Uber, Snowflake, Tripadvisor, Shopify, Puma, Bosch, or Lionbridge.

You will join as the Team Lead Engineering (Create & Manage) and empower a team of frontend and full-stack developers to build the future of Phrase Strings, our solution to translate software and digital products like apps, websites, and video games. Phrase Strings enables developers, product managers and translators to work together more efficiently by centralizing the process of localizing software.

In your role, you will be guiding and developing your team members (we believe in a people-first mentality), enabling them to thrive and grow, while still having plenty of opportunities to stay in the details and be hands-on. You will be comfortable leveraging your experience and skills within an autonomous, distributed setting, being a great communicator and true team player.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Growing your team of frontend and full-stack developers by actively recruiting new team members and supporting the people in your team in their career paths
• Working closely with Product Management to plan iterations (we’re inspired by the Shape-Up methodology) to ship code successfully and continuously
• Collaborating with department leaders to shape product ideas and help driving the vision of the future Phrase Strings experience
• Overseeing and driving decisions on architecture and developer tooling
• Guiding your team members by providing feedback through code reviews, assessments and coaching
• Participating in initiatives across teams and departments
• Presenting and celebrating your team's accomplishments

What you need:

• Experience in successfully managing and leading a team of frontend and full-stack engineers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
• Expert knowledge of building and operating large, high-traffic web applications with Ruby and Rails (or comparable)
• Solid knowledge of frontend technologies, especially Vue.js, TypeScript, GraphQL
• High proficiency in spoken and written English - we’re an international team and English is our official language

What you’ll get:

• 4 Company holidays additional to your regular holidays (1 day per quarter where the entire company is off to celebrate our achievements).
• Your birthday is off because it is important to celebrate you as well.
• 2 Giveback days where you can support the local community, volunteer, and/or participate in charity events and activities.
• Professional and extensive onboarding.
• Learning & development through Phrase learning and a dedicated ChatGPT Plus user license
• Additional local benefits depending on the entity you're hired at, just ask your Talent Acquisition Partner.

At Phrase we believe in the critical importance of diversity in all its forms and intersectionalities, and are committed to ensuring that the people we interview reflect this diversity. We therefore strongly encourage people of any identity to apply for our exciting career opportunities. We have taken an active decision to make our work environment inclusive every day, starting at the very beginning of your Phrase experience.

We value and welcome different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds as we believe that these differences make our team even stronger on our mission of opening the door to global business by giving everybody access to the content they need in the language they speak.