Team Lead to Engineering Efficiency

It’s an exciting time to work at Hive Streaming! We have been growing over 100% every year the last four years and in October 2020, we were recognized as SaaS company of the year in the Nordics.

In these turbulent times, great employee video communication is crucial for enterprises to create engagement and alignment in order to survive and succeed. At Hive Streaming we are proud to offer a relevant solution to this demand. We help multiple Fortune 500 customers understand, secure and optimize their video experience on a daily basis.

We are now looking for our new Team Lead to join our Engineering Efficiency Team at our office in Stockholm.

What is Hive's Engineering Efficiency Team?

Engineering Efficiency is the backbone of all engineering teams at Hive. Our team of backend, devops and cloud engineers takes care of a wide range of tasks that enable other teams to be successful and deliver value to our customers. Engineering Efficiency handles the Azure cloud infrastructure, including things like the Kubernetes cluster that allow other teams to deploy their solutions to our backend. We also provide support to other teams with our backend development framework and supply the best practices and guidelines to serve as base of the development. Our team is on-call 24/7, which means that we are always on top of any issues and incidents that might occur in the system. Our logging, monitoring and alerting systems allow to tap into the system health and ensure smooth operation for everyone at Hive, as well as our customers and partners.

What to expect

At Hive Streaming, you can expect an atmosphere of creativity and innovation together with fantastic workplace diversity. Today, we have over 25 nationalities among our 95 co-workers around the globe. The perfect fit for Hive is someone who thinks independently but works collaboratively to solve complex problems. You will working closley with other team leads whithin the engineering team.

We will offer you…

A friendly, fun, international and customer-centric culture where we empower each other to keep the environment fast-paced and agile

The possibility to work with some of the most renowned brands in the world and with strategic partners such as Microsoft and Workplace (from Facebook)

Professional and personal growth

Flexible working hours and conditions to enable work-life balance

A leader at Hive

Heading the Engineering Efficiency team at Hive means being a leader. At Hive, leaders help others grow and succeed by providing direction and facilitation. It also means embodying Hive’s three Core Values: Innovation, Customer Centricity and Empowerment.

To begin with, you will lead the team including 4 Software Engineers, 1 Cloud Security Engineer and 1 Site Reliability Engineer. You are responsible is building a high-performing team through recruiting, developing and retaining talent.

You will...

- Set clear team goals and objectives.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders and make priorities on deliverables.
- Motivate Team members on their intrinsic motivational factors.
- Fulfill requirements to maintain high performing team.
- Actively take part and contribute to strategic discussions together with all Team leads at Hive Engineering.
- Define, follow up and communicate metrics to strengthen team productivity.
- Discover training needs and provide coaching.
- Drive retrospectives, salary reviews, appraisals and follow up on Team health checks.


Previous Experience

- Proven skills as Development Team Lead
- Experience as people manager, for example coaching, salary negotations, conflic management et.
- Solid understanding of engineering work and processes
- Experience and understanding of Agile methodologies
- Excellent communication and Leadership skills
- Self-driven and decision-making skills
- Understand the concept of value driven development.


Preferable (but not essential)

- Experience from using Azure Cloud services and Azure dev ops.
- Experience with Atlassian products like Jira and StatusPage.


The perfect match will be..

- Customer focused, demonstrating understanding of current and anticipated customer needs in decision making
- A great planner, producing short and long-term plans that are comprehensive and realistic
- A networker, establishing credibility, trust, and influence and collaborate with other functions to deliver results through cross-functional processes
- A good communicator, seeking first to understand and then to be understood


You are aligned and want to live by our Core Values; customer-centricity, innovation, empowerment. Hive is an equal opportunity employer and women are highly encouraged to apply.

General information

- Employment: Full-time
- Start: As agreed/Position available now
- Salary and benefit: Competitive with subsidized health activities etc.
- Location: Stockholm, Berlin, Remote
- Contact information (to the recruiter): recruitment@hivestreaming.com


We hope you are excited about this position at Hive and look forward to your application!



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