Team Leader IA

Company

UpSlide is a productivity and branding solution for financial services that enhances PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Power BI. It helps firms such as Citi, KPMG and BNP Paribas focus on high-value tasks.

Values

• Excellence – attention to detail and quality of deliverables.
• Trust – passion, commitment and autonomy.
• Well‑being at work – positivity and enthusiasm for colleagues and clients.

Team

Lead the refiner squad, currently composed of several developers, growing to about seven developers.

Role Overview

Team Lead – /refine squad. You will manage the squad, improve user experience on Office deliverables, and drive IA initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Team management: create a supportive environment, mentor, coach and pair‑program developers.
• Drive new IA feature development in collaboration with Product Manager.
• Integrate IA tools and orchestrate solutions.
• Technology watch and propose IA concepts.
• Code quality: pair‑programming, clean code, reviews, unit tests, CI/CD.
• Continuous improvement practices such as retrospectives, health checks, and post‑mortems.

Objectives

• 3 months – establish trust, grasp product, instantiate IA vision.
• 6 months – master processes, lead IA initiatives, raise squad proficiency, foster high‑performance culture.

Technology Stack

• Client: .NET 4.8
• Testing: NUnit, Fluent Assertions, Moq, AutoFixture
• Cloud: Azure (hosting, CI/CD, Git)
• Other tools: Sentry, App Insights, R#, Entity Framework, MS SQL

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of development experience, 3 years of technical team management.
• Experience with IA on a commercial product.
• Leadership, alignment of product, technical and business goals.
• Curiosity, energy, motivation for UpSlide.
• Passion for clean code and TDD.
• Focus on user experience.
• English proficiency (B2 oral).
• Adaptability in a dynamic environment.

Recruitment Process

• Phone interview with recruitment partner.
• Live coding interview.
• Refactoring exercise and technical/management discussion.
• Final interview with CTO and Head of Dev.

Benefits and Perks

• International environment – 5 offices.
• Flexible remote work policy.
• Travel allowance of €500.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Well‑being budget €50 per month.
• Paid maternity, paternity and parental leave.
• Office amenities – meeting spaces, coffee bar, recreational zones.
• Vacation: 25 days plus 9 RTT.
• Company events and team retreats.
• Other benefits: meals plan, health insurance, transport voucher.