Team Lead

About the role:

Flo is building the future of renewable electricity retail in Singapore and Australia. We are looking for a hands-on Team Lead (Backend) to drive architecture, delivery, and team growth within a key product vertical.

What you'll do:
This is a 70% hands-on technical leadership / system ownership role and 30% people management, combining deep engineering execution with responsibility for growing and enabling a high-performing team.

Technical Leadership & System Ownership

• Lead system design and architectural decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and performance
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend systems from ideation to delivery (into production)
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical trade-offs
• Drive standardisation, reusable patterns, and platform-level improvements
• Strengthen best practices across predictability, code quality, testing, observability, and infrastructure
• Contribute meaningfully to the codebase while setting technical direction

People Management & Team Development

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide structured feedback, and support career growth
• Foster accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance development
• Cultivate a collaborative, empowered Agile culture

Delivery & Cross-Functional Impact

• Take accountability for planning and executing significant features and systems
• Build and operate platforms serving multiple markets (Singapore & Australia)
• Align technical solutions with product and business objectives
• Partner closely with Product and stakeholders to drive customer impact

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in product-focused environments
• Proven experience leading high-scale, complex systems end-to-end
• Prior experience mentoring or managing engineers
• Strong backend and distributed systems expertise
• Ability to balance hands-on execution with team leadership
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills