Team Lead, Infra Engineering

**Who we are is what we do.**

Deel and our family of growing companies are made up of global teams dedicated to helping businesses hire anyone, anywhere, easily.

The team comprises over three thousand self-driven individuals spanning over 100 countries, and our unified yet diverse culture keeps us continually learning and innovating the platform and products for customers.

Companies should be able to hire the best talent anywhere in the world, so we are building the best platform to make that a reality. Our market-leading technology, expertise, and global team are crucial to the platform’s success. We deliver the best products and features in our space, enabling millions of jobs worldwide and connecting the global workforce with the best companies and opportunities.

**Why should you be part of our success story?**

We offer global teams all the tools they need to hire, onboard, manage, pay, and scale at full speed. We aim to foster a diverse global economy by building a generational platform that seamlessly connects companies with talent worldwide.

After our successful Series D in 2021, we raised another $50M in 2023, doubling our valuation to $12B. There’s never been a more exciting time to join Deel — the international payroll and compliance market leader.

**What the Infra Engineering team does**:
The team was created to support Deel engineering growth and build a platform for product teams, so they could ship business value faster. Deel is at a very unique position because we are big enough that we need the platform but we are young enough to not have it yet. There is a dedicated DevOps team and they take care of the infrastructure: AWS, networking, Terraform, while we work on the edge between DevOps and engineering enforcing standards and best practices, creating tooling, maintaining internal libraries, providing architectural guidance and owning some high-loaded core services, improving observability and responding to production incidents when needed. It’s 65% Engineering and 35% Infrastructure. We have a lot of freedom, but it comes with a lot of responsibility.

**The Impact You’ll Have**:
As a Team Lead at Deel, you will lead a cross-functional team of 6-10 professionals spread across multiple zones (from India to Brazil) with a balance of leadership (70%) and hands-on technical work (30%). You will drive technical excellence, mentor your team, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. By fostering collaboration and adopting best practices, you will ensure the team meets organizational goals and provides the platform and required support to meet our engineering org demands.

**Get Ready To**:
**Lead with Excellence**:

- Serve as a leader of a strong distributed team driving decision-making, architecture reviews and ensuring day-to-day operations
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance, fostering growth and skill development within the team
- Ensure best practices in development, testing, and deployment, driving innovation and excellence

**Elevate Team and Organizational Effectiveness**:

- Drive planning and execution, balancing tactical wins with long-term objectives
- Implement and standardize best practices for engineering across teams keeping the bar high both for the team and organization
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Build processes to provide support to engineering and ensure reliability of critical infrastructure

**Strategize and Execute for Impact**:

- Define and implement strategic projects in alignment with organizational goals
- Lead innovation through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and problem-solving
- Represent infrastructure in cross-functional discussions, aligning technical requirements with business objectives

**Build Teams and Foster Culture**:

- Play an active role in hiring and scaling the team, ensuring alignment with company values
- Manage performance cycles, provide structured feedback, and support the professional growth of team members
- Cultivate a culture of collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
- Champion diversity and foster an environment where all team members thrive

**Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration**:

- Work closely with DevOps, DBA and InfoSec teams to align on organizational goals
- Coordinate efforts across teams to drive complex projects and ensure shared objectives are met
- Communicate technical challenges, opportunities, and solutions effectively to stakeholders
- Push back on product decisions when necessary, presenting well-reasoned arguments to prioritize technical health, scalability, and long-term success
- Resolve complex, multi-team technical challenges by fostering collaboration across disciplines

**What You’ll Bring**:

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript or Go/Python
- 3+ years of experience in infrastructure