Technical Lead/Architect

Deadline 18.08.2025

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.

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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

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

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
Deadline 18.08.2025

Don’t wait-we’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis!

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