Technical Lead
Join a mission-driven team working on a socially impactful system. You'll collaborate with a motivated, growth-minded development team and enjoy a strong, transparent client relationship. As a Technical Lead, you’ll guide both architecture and people, helping to shape the project, processes, and team culture.
Your role
- Participate in the clients’ meetings to understand the client’s business needs, including their technical capabilities/infrastructure
- Advise the client on how to solve their business needs through IT and introduce the different technical options, communicating architectural decisions clearly
- Leading technical direction, architecture, and development planning
- Facilitating roadmap creation, effort estimation, and technical prioritization
- Mentoring developers and creating space for their professional growth
- Collaborating closely with PMs, Product Owners, Architects, and other lead roles
- Staying hands-on with code where it adds the most value
Why join us?
- A meaningful project with real social impact
- A team that values collaboration, learning, and initiative
- A clear role in architectural decisions, process ownership, and roadmap planning
- Personal development support based on your strengths and career goals
- A lean organization and the possibility to work closely with decision-makers
- Belong to the Helmes developers community-sharing insights and knowledge across teams
- Comfortable office in Tallinn, with parking available
- Wellness perks: health insurance, sports compensation, and Helmes trainings (volleyball, football, basketball, badminton)
- Extra vacation days based on tenure and fun team/company events like Growth Day, Summer Picnic, New Years Gala
What to expect
A world-class workplace We fully support hybrid work principles and ensure that every person and team have both comfortable and ergonomic workspaces. Our company offices are meant to be social hubs for Helmes people.
Supportive ecosystem for growth We select the best talent and trust them to build successful businesses with their customers. The variety of customers, projects, and smart peers who surround you will enable you to fulfill your professional ambitions.
Balanced life We care about people and invest in long-term relationships. We believe that the mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing of our employees is the very foundation of our best-in-class service.
We are looking for
- Experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Developer, or Architect
- Strong technical background in Java, relational DBs, and a modern JS framework (Angular, React, or Vue)
- Ability to guide people and support developers’ growth
- Experience with defining architecture visions and turning visions into executable roadmaps
- Willingness to actively and constructively communicate across roles and teams
- Fluency in Estonian and professional proficiency in English
