We are hiring a Team Lead to lead execution of development work within the Platform Core & Integrations team. This vertical owns the shared core services, internal and external APIs, third-party integrations, middleware, and cross-system contracts that the rest of the platform depends on. The Team Lead is accountable for predictable sprint delivery and implementation quality. They also own architecture adherence within team scope, runtime stability of team-owned services, and structured technical risk visibility.
This is a hands-on leadership role with an approximate 60% hands-on / 40% governance split. The Team Lead governs team outcomes; senior engineers drive day-to-day execution mechanics.
Key Responsibilities
Own sprint planning, sprint scope commitment, and realistic capacity-aligned delivery for the team.
Co-decompose complex and cross-module technical initiatives with senior engineers.
Execute complex and shared foundational component work hands-on (shared services, internal APIs, middleware integration points).
Govern code review discipline and enforce engineering standards within the team.
Ensure architecture and standard adherence within team scope - preventing violations, not redefining enterprise standards.
Own runtime stability of team-owned services and coordinate incident diagnosis and resolution within team scope, including participation in the on-call escalation rotation.
Detect technical risks early and escalate formally to the Technical Director when they exceed team authority.
Govern API versioning and backward compatibility discipline so changes ship with migration paths and no undocumented breaking changes.
Drive structured capability development and mentoring across the team.
5+ years of professional
software engineering experience, including 3+ years recent production [protected info] / TypeScript / Javascript.
3+ years in a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or equivalent role formally accountable for a development team's delivery and quality outcomes.
Demonstrated ownership of sprint delivery, scope commitment, and code review discipline for a team.
Track record of mentoring engineers across junior-to-senior levels.
Experience operating in a microservice, multi-repo environment.
Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in a production team setting, with awareness of review/QA guard rails.
Required Technical Skills
The team operates a polyglot, microservice-heavy estate (50+ services). Strong, demonstrable depth in the core runtimes is essential:
[protected info] with JavaScript and TypeScript - the dominant stack (38 of the team's services). Deep production experience required.
Backend service and API design - REST and contract-driven integration patterns; API versioning and backward-compatibility discipline.
Distributed systems & messaging - experience with socket/real-time services and message middleware (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc.).
Microservice architecture in a multi-repo environment; strong Git and PR-based workflow discipline.
Solid grasp of runtime stability, observability, and incident diagnosis.
Valued / Secondary Skills
Go - a growing share of newer platform services (gateways, identity, operator, reporting) are written in Go; working proficiency is a strong advantage.
Java (Spring Boot / Netty) - used in socket, real-time, and game-history services.
Experience integrating and governing third-party / external vendor integrations.
Prior work in regulated or high-availability environments
AI at company / organizational level - experience contributing to AI governance, tooling evaluation, and rollout of AI-assisted workflows across teams or the wider organization
Leadership & Soft Skills
Proven experience leading a development team and owning sprint delivery outcomes.
Strong written and spoken English - all organizational communication is in English; the team includes distributed engineers.
Ability to mentor engineers across junior-to-senior levels.
Comfortable distinguishing what the team owns versus what requires escalation or cross-functional coordination.
Effective cross-team and stakeholder communication, including negotiating shared contracts and coordinating dependencies with other verticals.
Role Boundaries (Cannot Do)
This role explicitly does not:
Approve production releases (release approval is Technical Director authority).
Override architecture standards (Chief Architect owns enterprise standards).
Override Technical Director decisions or commit delivery externally.
Redefine cross-team contracts unilaterally.
Hold final hiring, budget, or cross-vertical prioritization authority.
Success Metrics (First 6-12 Months)
Predictable sprint delivery and scope commitment accuracy.
Zero undocumented breaking API changes; backward-compatibility discipline upheld.
Shared service runtime stability within SLA.
Code review and engineering-standard compliance within the team.
Active, structured capability development across team members.
AI-assisted development adoption across all team members - scoped to approved tooling and your framework's guard rails (named senior reviewer, same review/QA gates).
Quality of AI-assisted output maintained - defect rate at or below baseline, healthy acceptance rate, no increase in review overhead.
Active contribution to AI governance and innovation - surfacing blockers, sharing patterns, and feeding structured input into the evaluation/governance process.
MacBook Pro and additional working-support devices provided on demand.
100% salary during probation.
Competitive long-term salary package + performance bonus.
Performance and salary review at each release milestone.
13th-month salary + Lucky money.
Friendly working environment, no office politics.
5-star Company trip + Monthly Team building + birthday bonus.
Snacks and drinks lounge.
Weekly sports clubs (Console, Badminton, Soccer, Archery, ...).