Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Upwork is looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead to work on one of our products within theplatform.

This is a contract position with the potential for contract renewal based on project needs and accomplishment toward deliverables.

Work/Project Scope:

• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science Teams, Product Managers and Designers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Provide guidance to a team of software engineers with a focus on quality and customer-centricity.
• Partner with Product Management and Design for planning and driving execution, and timely delivery of projects with a high bar of quality.
• Understand the larger vision, features, and challenges and distill them down into plans accounting for trade-offs to realize the goals.
• Collaborate within and across teams to design, build, and ship delightful experiences for our customers.
• Participate in regular project updates to get an accurate view of project output, strengthen communication, and support engineers to complete their tasks.
• Manage your time independently and effectively to achieve project deliverables, which may require an estimated 40 hours of project-related effort per week.
• Coordinate with the team during core hours (8:00 am to 11:00 pm Pacific Time) to enhance project collaboration. Some roles or urgent matters may require availability until 12:00 pm Pacific Time on occasion.

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• At least 3 years of experience leading the development of Back-end applications;
• Technical leadership experience in building complex projects from ideation to launch;
• Ability to define the roadmap and goals for the team in partnership with the product team and being able to keep the team aligned and informed about the business goals;
• Proven experience with delivering business-critical projects;
• Strong project management skills, and experience partnering with cross-functional teams to successfully launch products;
• People management skills;
• Good interpersonal skills and strong experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders;
• Communicate frequently and effectively in English.

What would make you stand out:

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements and describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and lead teams through change.
• Proven experience in software development.
• Experience leading remote and distributed teams.

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