About Smartcat
Smartcat was founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. Today, Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for the global enterprise.
Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library.
More than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.
Smartcat’s vision is to realise a world where there is equal access to innovations and ideas.
Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces and AI. You might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios. Despite the economic recession, Smartcat is growing at 150% YoY. It's well-funded and capital efficient, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection and the ability to think and plan long-term.
Mission
We are seeking an experienced Software Development Team Leader to join our team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Director, you will lead a talented team of up to 10 software developers, focusing on one of the key products in our highly successful product line. This role offers a high level of autonomy and responsibility, effectively positioning you as a 'mini-CTO' for your product. In addition to having full responsibility for all technical aspects of the product, you will also manage the team, encompassing team development, talent acquisition, adjustments to team composition, and the promotion of team members.
Outcomes
- Drive the delivery of a high-quality product, exceeding customer expectations.
- Collaborate with the product team to create and execute comprehensive roadmaps, ensuring top-quality implementation.
- Proactively collaborate with customer-facing teams to reduce the number of customer-reported bugs.
- Partner with architects to transform and scale the product for 100x growth.
- Optimise and measure engineering processes to double the team's output within the first year, while simultaneously halving the number of bugs.
- Recruit, build, and lead a top-tier engineering team across various regions and time zones, enhancing the hiring process, offering expert technical guidance, and fostering career development.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years in software development, with 5+ years in leadership managing teams of 5+ engineers.
- 5+ years of .NET experience.
- Proven leadership and management skills, capable of motivating and guiding teams to achieve objectives.
- A meticulous and data-driven approach to problem-solving.
- Experience in scaling products during rapid growth phases.
- Expertise in managing high-load, secure, and scalable systems, ensuring robust performance under peak demands.
- Familiarity with performance optimization and system resilience strategies.
- Adaptability to thrive in a high-intensity startup environment, with a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Receptiveness to feedback and diverse viewpoints.
- Based in an EU-friendly timezone.
- Demonstrated experience in working within international environments.
- Able to cooperate with US-based teams during US morning hours.
- Fluency in English
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience in building products from scratch.
- Experience with Vue.js, and MongoDB.
- Background in AI-focused product development.
- Proficiency with public-cloud platforms and services.
Our technologies
- PL: .NET Core
- DB: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
- Hosting in the AWS
- Elasticsearch cluster, indexes for several billion documents
- ELK (EFK) for logging, VM, Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and monitoring
Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far
- Innovating the $50 Billion industry Smartcat’s innovative business model taps into this $50B language translation industry with a platform allowing enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing and enjoy easy-to-use AI-powered SaaS that delivers immediate high-quality results at a fraction of the cost.
- High-impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organisations You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide.
- Fully remote team of high-performers We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, the Bay Area, London, Lisbon, Belgrade, and Yerevan. We strive to grow ambitiously, but we also preserve our high performance, engagement, and open feedback culture. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too. Check out our Culture Code to learn why we love being Smartcaters.
- Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together We are looking for someone who will become a part of the team and play a critical role in the most exciting part of our journey from a post-Series B startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing 150% YoY thanks to the strong product-market fit and the culture of high sense of urgency.
- Celebrating diversity We welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.
