Engineering Team Leader (C++)

XTB is a global company from the financial industry, focusing on online trading of financial instruments. We are the largest FinTech in Poland and a leader in Central and Eastern Europe, and the range of our operations covers several countries, including Asia and South America. At XTB, we focus on the development of our employees, giving them opportunities to gain knowledge and skills in various fields, as well as offering a number of training and development programs. If you are looking for challenges and want to gain valuable experience in an international business environment, XTB is the right place for you. We are a certified Great Place to Work company.

Our systems are connected with financial markets and provide full support related to all aspects of investing. Due to high customer expectations, our technological solutions must be characterized by the highest quality and reliability. Many years of company development and operations have shaped the DNA of our IT, which is based on several key foundations: reliability and high availability of applications, very high performance enabling processing of large volumes of data in real time, focus on development and continuous improvement of functionalities, flat structure and agile methodologies allowing us to avoid unnecessary corporate overhead.

We are looking for a person who will join our team in the role of Engineering Team Leader. A person in this position will combine both technical and leadership competencies. In our structure, a Program Manager is responsible for a dedicated business area and several Scrum teams. Each team consists of a Team Leader, developers, and testers. The team is multi-competency and delivers complete solutions (analysis, architecture, backend, frontend, testing, observability) based on a microservices architecture using C++.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring implementation of programming tasks in accordance with applicable technological standards,

• Supporting the Product Manager in coordinating the team’s work in the area of technological solutions,

• Cooperating with other teams in developing the optimal architecture of solutions,

• Ensuring high efficiency of the development team by identifying and mitigating obstacles in the development process,

• Monitoring ongoing work and supporting problem-solving related to technical issues,

• Supporting team development by providing training, mentoring processes, and regular 1:1 meetings.

Requirements

• Several years of experience as a developer,

• Experience as a team manager,

• Ability to create and develop microservices based on modern C++,

• Knowledge of issues related to scalability, performance, and reliability of IT systems,

• Participation in projects from architecture to deployment,

• Ability to work with a multi-competency and remote team.

What we work with

• We write our microservices mainly in C++ 14/17/20, sometimes using Boost,

• We run them directly on servers (bare metal) in several data centers,

• We create frontend applications in C# and Java (Vaadin),

• Our services are multithreaded and process huge amounts of data,

• We place strong emphasis on the throughput and latency of our applications,

• Communication between services is handled by our TCP-based protocol and gRPC,

• We use Kafka for asynchronous communication,

• We monitor production using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, and OpsGenie,

• We test using gtest,

• We build with Conan and CMake,

• For code editing we use, among others, VS Code and CLion, and we code with the support of AI agents,

• We store code on GitLab and build using GitLabCI,

• We track tasks in Jira and collect knowledge in Confluence,

• We use Google Workspace: Gmail, GDocs, GMeet, and Google Chat for communication,

• We have in-house GenAI tools developed internally and available to all employees; additionally, we use standard agent-based tools.

What we offer

• Real influence on the development of the company and the product,

• Work in an experienced team that is happy to share its knowledge,

• A clear vision of development thanks to regular feedback and clear career paths,

• Regular team-building meetings.

Benefits

• A training budget for courses and conferences that interest you,

• An extra day off on your birthday,

• An extra day off for parents,

• Equipment tailored to your needs,

• Private medical care and group insurance,

• Access to an e-learning platform for learning English and a benefits platform,

• Access to a wellbeing platform and the opportunity to take advantage of workshops and private therapy sessions,

• Remote work, from the office in Warsaw or from a coworking space in your city.