Position: Team Lead/Project Manager (Outside of UA location)
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Experience required: 5y
Category: Project Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2023-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About the project**
Big international company whose main business is related to gift cards and their functioning: issuing and distribution of cards, processing of payments, exchanging, refilling, etc. It also operates with many other types of digital content like eGIfts, incentive cards, promotions, rewards, etc. The company has several e-commerce sites and platforms that are helping to distribute the gift card products. Also the company has a bunch of own core services that perform all the management of gift cards in the ecosystem.

**About SPD-Ukraine**
As a part of SPD Group, we provide software engineering and product development services for clients worldwide—the USA, Israel, UK, and EU. Our world-class team of 600+ engineers deliver Web, Mobile, AI/ML or Enterprise solutions to a wide range of business domains, such as FinTech, eCommerce, SaaS, LegalTech, InsurTech, HRTech, Cybersecurity, etc. Our key clients are world-renowned iconic brands such as Poynt, PitchBook, MorningStar, PieInsurance. Ten of our clients report more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Headquartered in London, UK, and with development centers in Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ukraine, SPD Group aims to impact the lives of millions by revealing great tech ideas and potential. We do not cooperate with companies from russia and belarus.

**We are looking for a person who has:**
- 6+ years of experience in software development area (3+ years working as software developer, 3+ years having leadership responsibilities);
- Experience working with full cycle of software development and managing it;
- Experience working with databases and REST APIs;
- Experience with CI/CD tools;
- Understanding different software architectures;
- Basics in DevOps and monitoring; 
- Rich experience in planning and tracking of software development;
- Excellent communication skills, ability to negotiate;
- Flexibility in changing environment;
- Excellent analytical skills;
- Experience in requirements analysis; 
- Experience in people management; 
- Experience in effective managing of team processes; 
- Experience working with enterprise projects; 
- English level: Upper-intermediate or higher.

**Would be plus:**
- Experience in e-commerce and payments domain;
- Experience working with high-load distributed systems;
- Experience working with AWS services.

**Sounds like you? Here are some of what you’ll be doing:**
- Leading 2 distributed teams of 5-6 people each;
- Managing 1-2 big initiatives: research, planning timelines, controlling the progress, helping with open questions and blockers, coordination of communication;
- Take part in regular development work: tech research, troubleshooting, code review, monitoring;
- Ability to understand complex logic in payments and e-commerce areas;
- Facilitating team communication towards the business goals;
- Help the team with analysis of requirements, take part in technical discussions;
- Finding a balance between speed and quality;
- Having regular 1-1 meetings with Ukrainian team members.

**Technical stack:**
- Vary from team to team: AWS, Java, React, Angular, PHP.
Tools:
- Rally, Confluence, MS Office 360, MS Teams, Zoom.

**Team**
Currently we have 2 teams working on different products: one is working on an eCommerce portal, and another team is working on core common back-end services. Both teams consist of people from the SPD side (Ukrainians located in EU, Argentina, Canada) as well as people from the client side (USA, India).
Team processes are going to be based on Agile principles and will be adjusted to the team specifics.
Usual time of team meetings - between 5pm and 8pm.