Team Lead of a Cross-Functional Development Team (Java/Kafka)

We are looking for a Team Lead for a cross-functional team (Development + QA + Analytics) for Quickly Search — a recruitment company that helps build IT teams across various industries. Company: Quickly Search

Quickly Search is a recruitment company that helps companies build IT teams in the banking, fintech, e-commerce, retail, and telecom sectors.

— Lead a cross-functional team: motivate, develop, and guide people

— Be responsible for the "movement": plan sprints/tasks, coordinate work, and keep a finger on the pulse of projects

— Build and optimize internal processes, implement best practices and standards

— Maintain focus on results: monitor metrics (KPIs), quality, and deadlines

— Act as a liaison: negotiate with stakeholders, manage resources and risks, resolve complex situations

— Document requirements, formulate tasks for the technical team and analysts, monitor deadlines

— Implement a new event accounting module into the platform for government agencies

— Higher education in IT/Management or a related field

— Team Lead experience — from 5 years, preferably in different companies

— Technical background: grown from developers or architects (language/stack is not critical)

— Management vs. technical ratio — approximately 70/30

— Knowledge of Scrum/Kanban and practical experience working with them

— Ability to juggle projects, processes, and people while maintaining strategic focus

— Strong leadership and communication skills

— Leadership, systemic thinking, proactivity, ability to take responsibility and deliver results

Salary from 400,000 ₽ and above, remote format, full-time employment under the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.

Format: remote

Salary Level: from 400,000 ₽ and above

Employment: full-time

🖥 Format

Remote (Russia), a time difference of no more than +2 hours from Moscow is acceptable.

🕹 Approximate Salary Level:

from 400,000 ₽ and above

🕹 Work Conditions:

— Employment under the Labor Code of the Russian Federation

— Flexible schedule

— Remote work within Russia

— Voluntary medical insurance, including dental care

— Salary is discussed at the interview