Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Do you have a strong technical background and experience leading product teams? Can you lead and guide our talented and self-motivated software engineers across several locations? Do you enjoy making distributed and highly scalable AI-powered SaaS in the cloud? Then this might just be what you are looking for!

The role you’ll play

As Engineering Team Lead, you'll take ownership of an existing team — hiring new engineers, developing the people you have, and raising the bar on how the team works.

This isn't a feature factory. We run empowered product teams: you and your Product Manager own the product. Together you discover customer problems worth solving, decide what to build, and own the outcome. Your team is responsible for the full development lifecycle — you build it, you run it.

The team you’ll be a part of

You'll join an existing team in the Technology department, working alongside 6 other teams in a distributed, international setup.

Your team develops and maintains some of the most critical components that sustain our business such as authentication/authorization, object/file storage, notifications (chat, email, SMS), back office integrations (CRM & ERP), reporting and AI Agents integration into our business workflows.

You'll report to the Director of Engineering and work closely with five other Tech Leads.

If you want to make a difference, make it with us by…

• Co-driving the product. Together with your PM, you own the product. You bring technical insight into what's possible, shape the solution, and take shared responsibility for outcomes — not just delivery.
• Leading and growing your team. Hiring well, developing people's skills, and creating an environment where senior engineers and newer talent both thrive.
• Driving engineering excellence. Raising the bar on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and everything else that lets a team ship confidently and often.
• Staying hands-on. Contributing to the codebase through implementation and code reviews. You lead by example.
• Designing scalable solutions. Architecting cloud-native services and integrating AI agents into business workflows.
• Raising the bar beyond your team. Collaborating with fellow Tech Leads and senior leadership to improve engineering maturity across the organization — processes, practices, and culture.

In one year, you’ll know you were successful if…

• You've grown the team with the right people and built a cohesive unit that ships independently and owns its product with confidence.
• Your team has measurably improved the scalability, reliability, or functionality of the products you own.
• Your team promotes and adopts engineering best practices (CI/CD, automated QA, observability).
• Your engineers are growing, and you and your team push the entire technology organization to improve. 

Desired experience and competencies

What does it take to work for LanguageWire?

What you’ll need to bring

People management

• Experience leading and hiring software engineers - growing teams, not just managing them.
• A track record of developing people: helping junior engineers grow, keeping senior engineers challenged, and building trust across the team.
• Strong communication skills and comfort leading in a distributed, multi-location setup.

Product thinking

• You care about why you're building something, not just how. You can reason about customer problems, trade-offs, and outcomes alongside your PM.
• Ability to balance competing priorities: feature delivery, tech debt, platform investment. You make these trade-offs visible and advocate for all three.

Operational & Engineering excellence

• Comfort running the team's operational rhythm (roadmap ownership, backlog management, sprint/cycle planning) without drowning in process.
• Strong opinions (loosely held) on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and release management.
• Experience establishing or improving engineering practices in a team instead of just following existing ones.
• Familiarity with "you build it, you run it" ownership models.

Technical depth

• Solid hands-on experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Vue), .NET, relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud providers (e.g., Azure).
• Comfort designing and building cloud-native distributed systems based on microservice.
• Interest in (or experience with) AI agents and embedding AI into business workflows.

This will make you stand out

• Experience working in empowered product teams where engineering owns product outcomes instead of just delivering against a backlog.
• Experience embedding AI into an existing product (not just greenfield experimentation).
• Experience working at a tech-enabled language service provider (LSP).

Our perks

• Enjoy flat hierarchies, responsibility and freedom, direct feedback, and room to stand up for your own ideas
• Internal development opportunities, ongoing support from your People Partner, and an inclusive and fun company culture
• International company with over 300 employees. Offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Stockholm, Varberg, London, Leuven, Lille, Paris, Munich, Hamburg,, Sophia Antipolis, Atlanta, Finland and Valencia
• For this role, we have a full-time FlexiWire@home option for remote work. Of course, you are always welcome at the office to collaborate and connect with your colleagues.
• We take care of our people and initiate many social get-togethers from Friday Bars a to Summer or Christmas parties. We have fun!
• Excellent location in cool and modern offices in the city center, with a great rooftop terrace and a view over the Town Hall Square
• Private health insurance
• Working in an international environment—more than 20 different nationalities
• A dog friendly atmosphere
• Big kitchen with access to organic fruits, nuts and biscuits and coffee.
• Social area and game room (foosball table, darts, and board games)
• Bike and car parking

About LanguageWire

At LanguageWire, we want to wire the world together with language. Why? Because we want to help people & businesses simplify communication. We are fueled by the most advanced technology (AI) and our goal is to make customer's lives easier by simplifying their communication with any audience across the globe.

Our values drive our behavior

We are curious. We are trustworthy. We are caring. We are ambitious.

At LanguageWire, we are curious and intrigued by what we don’t understand. We believe relationships are based on honesty and responsibility, and being trustworthy reinforces an open, humble, and honest way of communicating. We are caring and respect each other personally and professionally. We encourage authentic collaboration, invite feedback and a positive social environment. Our desire to learn, build, and share knowledge is a natural part of our corporate culture.

Working at LanguageWire — why we like it: 

“As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at LanguageWire, my day is dynamic and collaborative, particularly within the Machine Learning team. I work closely with Machine Learning Engineers to integrate advanced AI capabilities into our web applications and APIs, aiming to enhance customer experiences through innovative features. I also collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment of our technology solutions, fostering continuous learning and driving the evolution of LanguageWire's technology.”

(Cristian, Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Poland)

“What I enjoy the most about being a QA Engineer at LanguageWire is testing the products we provide to our customers. It feels rewarding to assure the quality and reliability of our designs. I also enjoy the teamwork involved in my job since I collaborate with many people, ranging from developers to product managers and linguists. In this way, I play a role in ensuring our projects' success, which is incredibly gratifying. I love knowing my work influences the outcome of our production of high-quality products for our customers. I also have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies adds an exciting challenge to my role.”

(Ricardo, QA Engineer, Portugal)

Yes, to diversity, equity & inclusion

In LanguageWire, we believe diversity in gender, age, background, and culture is essential for our growth. Therefore, we are committed to creating a culture that incorporates diverse perspectives and expertise in our everyday work.

LanguageWire’s recruitment process is designed to be transparent and fair for all candidates. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply, and we ensure that candidates are provided with an equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills.

Want to know more?

We can’t wait to meet you! So, why wait 'til tomorrow? Apply today!

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