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Engineering Team Lead | C++ | Threat Protection Team

Other • Lead • Remote • Full-time • Poland Poland

You lead the Threat Protection team at Nord Security, which builds threat protection features for the NordVPN application. The role covers steering the team's delivery, technical goals and growth, with a C++ and low-level networking background.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Lead a development team delivering Threat Protection functionality for the NordVPN application and increase customers' digital security
  • ▹Own the output of a development team
  • ▹Plan and follow the team's technical and delivery goals
  • ▹Keep the team focused, track roadblocks that slow delivery and facilitate their resolution
  • ▹Stay continuously aware of the latest security practices and developments and ensure they are followed
  • ▹Empower developers to collaborate and resolve blockers
  • ▹Guide the development of team members with personal and career development plans
  • ▹Solve problems and technical debates together with team members

Requirements

  • ▹Experience leading engineering teams (preferably with C/C++)
  • ▹Understanding of a product's business goals and vision and how your team contributes to it
  • ▹Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Object-Oriented Design (OOD) mindset
  • ▹Some network stack knowledge and low-level programming experience
  • ▹Sufficient expertise to make technical decisions, contribute to the codebase and perform quality code reviews
  • ▹A high sense of responsibility and ownership for the quality of your work
  • ▹Open, transparent communication style
  • ▹Positive attitude towards feedback, new ideas and self-improvement

Nice to have

  • ▹Windows API and kernel experience
  • ▹Apple/Mac/Linux expertise

Soft skills

Team leadershipOpen, transparent communicationOwnershipOpenness to feedback

What we offer

  • ▹Work alongside industry leaders and global experts on world-leading cybersecurity tools
  • ▹Extensive online and offline training programs, mentorship and career-switch opportunities
  • ▹Work from any location
  • ▹Online workouts and sports and wellness facilities through a Multisport card
  • ▹Free psychologist consultations, mental health events and premium wellness apps (Calm, Headspace, Mindletic)
  • ▹Private health insurance
  • ▹Gifts for special occasions (birthday, anniversary, wedding, arrival of a new family member)
  • ▹Company events and team-building
  • ▹Workation: a company getaway abroad

About the company

Nord Security is the team behind NordVPN, Threat Protection Pro and the NordLynx protocol, building one of the fastest VPNs in the world and putting privacy, security and control back in people's hands.

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