Software Engineering Team Lead

🕒 September 12

🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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MetalBear

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $12.5M Seed Round - MetalBear on 2025-09

SaaS • B2B

MetalBear is the company behind mirrord, a developer-focused tooling company that lets cloud developers run local code as if it were part of a remote Kubernetes/cloud environment without deploying. mirrord provides a CLI and IDE plugins (VS Code, IntelliJ) to simplify coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting by making remote services feel local, eliminating the need to build Docker images or push to CI just to test. The product is aimed at teams building cloud-native applications who want faster, easier iteration and more reliable testing in realistic cloud conditions.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of mirrord’s cloud integration features, including queue splitting and DB branching • Stay hands-on and actively contribute to the codebase • Work with Kubernetes, cloud services, database systems, message brokers, and other tools and platforms • Set the technical direction for the team and maintain high engineering standards • Drive effective use of AI across the team • Help prioritize work, unblock engineers, and drive roadmap execution • Hire and mentor engineers as the team grows • Partner with Product, Solution Engineering, and users to drive adoption and expansion

🎯 Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams • At least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Rust (most preferably), C++, or C • Excellent communication skills • Understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments • Strong systems-level thinking and ability to debug complex, distributed environments • Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote-first, startup environment • Experience building developer tools (nice to have) • Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API (nice to have) • Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling such as data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Remote-first work arrangement • Async-friendly work environment • Low-meeting culture