Backend Team Lead
We’re Xelix, an AI-powered Control Centre for Accounts Payable teams. We work with some of the largest global companies to automate and enhance their financial control processes. At the heart of our product, we leverage machine learning techniques developed by our data science team to provide a more sophisticated offering than existing solutions.
Things are going really well for us - we raised our Series A funding round from top investors, we’ve grown our team to over 60, and we’ve won industry awards for our products.
About the role
We are looking for a Back-End Team Lead to join our fast-growing team. The role offers a great opportunity to manage a team (leading a team of 3-6 developers) whilst staying hands-on and honing your technical skills and abilities. You will work alongside the existing Engineering Team Leads and report to the Head of Engineering.
You will be well supported to continue your professional development, including a conference allowance, a budget for L&D resources, and a monthly session with your manager to identify and track your learning goals.
What you'll be doing
Technical Responsibilities
Our mantra is “build for the long term” and so we take pride in our work – producing clean, tested, beautiful code. As a manager you will support your team in this by participating in code and design reviews, giving feedback to developers and encouraging their professional development. You will:
Support developers when they are stuck on a problem
Facilitate architectural decision making
Share knowledge to maintain DRY principles and to ensure the codebase is consistent
Keep up to date with industry developments and bring new technology to the team
People Management
Primarily you would be ensuring your team members are happy and productive:
Mentoring, training and career planning for your team members
Conducting monthly 1-1 sessions
Collaborating with the Product Team to prioritise and allocate tasks
Hiring and onboarding
Promote managerial best practice with your team lead peers
What you'll bring
At least 5 years of experience in a hands-on Backend role and a minimum of 2 years experience leading a engineering team of at least 3 people
For a Python / Django Team Lead we expect a strong understanding of the Python / Django ecosystem including:
Familiarity with building RESTful APIs with the Django Rest Framework
Developing robust and scalable solutions in Python
Relational databases (we use PostgreSQL on AWS)
Implementing performance improvement strategies
Nice to have:
We have a DevOps team that manage CI/CD, Cloud, IaC etc. An understanding of common AWS services, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform is desirable but not essential.
What we offer in return:
💰 Competitive salary
🏝️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing), with the option to roll over 3 days
🏡 Hybrid working with two days a week from our dog-friendly Hoxton office
🏥 Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality
🍼 Enhanced parental leave
📚 Learning & development culture – £500 personal annual budget
🌍 We’re are carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals
🎯 Lots of team socials & activities
☀️ Annual team retreat
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We believe that people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences make our company and product better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! And if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!
If you're a recruiting agency - we have an existing list of agencies we work with and we are not currently planning on expanding the list. Neither the Talent team nor hiring managers or the Support team will respond to cold outreach.