Position: Engineering Lead
Company: Upwork
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Upwork is looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to work on the expansion of Tax capabilities and services within the platform. 

**Work/Project Scope**
- You will be working with Engineering and Data Science teams, Product Managers, and Designers to build outstanding products for our users!
Lead and grow a team of software engineers with a focus on quality and customer-centricity.
- You will partner with product management and design for planning and driving execution, and timely delivery of projects with a high bar of quality.
- Understand the larger vision, features, and challenges and distill them down into plans accounting for trade-offs to realize the goals.
- Collaborate within and across teams to design, build, and ship delightful experiences for our customers.

**Must Haves (Required Skills):** 
- At least 3 years of experience leading the development of Back-end applications;
- Technical leadership experience in building complex projects from ideation to launch;
- Ability to define the roadmap and goals for the team in partnership with the product team and being able to keep the team aligned and informed about the business goals;
- Proven experience with delivering business-critical projects
Strong project management skills, and experience partnering with cross-functional teams to successfully launch products;
- People management skills;
- Good interpersonal skills and strong experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders;
- Communicate frequently and effectively in English.

**What would make you stand out:**
- Experience with the implementation of support of taxation-related functionality;
- Experience with any payment processors (PayPal, Stripe, etc…);
- Experience with High-Load applications;