Team Lead, IT Development

Our 30-year journey rides on the passion of over 27,000 seafarers and 1,000 onshore professionals. Today, we are one of the largest independent third-party ship management companies managing over 650+ diverse types of vessels.
Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, China, we operate on a global scale having 27 offices in 12 countries. Our client base spans over 100 world-class ship owners, including Fortune 500 companies from China, Greece, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the USA, among others.
In a shore career at FLEET, you will be working with a team of a highly passionate, self-driven and committed group of people. We aim to be a place where you can achieve your full potential, regardless of your background. We are looking for individuals who are ambitious about making a strong contribution to FLEET’s short and long-term sustainable growth – whether you are dealing directly with clients or working in a role supporting the business, such as technology, legal or communications.

Job Position Summary 

As a Team Lead, your typical day includes:  

Set the Course: Vision & Strategy

•    Navigate the development journey for PARIS 2.0 delivering seamless and scalable software solutions across web and mobile, ensuring a smooth voyage for all users 
•    Driving engineering best practices and architecting robust, maintainable, and high-performance systems that guide     teams through complexity to user-centric solutions
•    Translate user requirements into cutting-edge software, building applications that feel less like tools and more like second nature for maritime professionals
•    Champion the agile voyage, embedding best engineering practices and a culture of continuous improvement into Fleet’s DNA—turning “What if?” into “What’s next?”

Chart the Course: Technical Leadership & Data-Driven Development

•    Lead deep-dive technical explorations, identifying performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and architectural improvements to ensure a future-ready tech stack.
•    Using data to leverage monitoring tools, analytics and industry trends to validate decisions and measure impact.
•    Develop technical roadmaps, API blueprints, and integration strategies—to ensure our platforms are scalable, resilient, and adaptable to future maritime challenges
•    Enforce best practices in testing, CI/CD, and DevOps to keep our software fleet sailing smoothly

Craft the Compass: Software Execution & Quality

•    Manage the full software development lifecycle—from design and architecture to coding, testing, and deployment—ensuring every feature is fit for purpose and aligns with Fleet’s mission
•    Maintain a North Star of engineering excellence, upholding rigorous coding standards and fostering a culture of clean, maintainable, and efficient code
•    Balance speed and precision, implementing agile workflows that harness insights while ensuring software is both innovative and robust

Captain the Crew: Leadership, People Management & Cross-Functional Mastery

•    Mentor and lead a crew of engineers, shaping them into people who champion best practices in software development and system architecture
•    Foster a high-performing team, creating an environment where engineers feel empowered, motivated, and aligned with the company’s mission
•    Provide continuous feedback and career guidance, conducting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and coaching sessions to help team members grow and excel
•    Resolve bottlenecks and team challenges, ensuring smooth collaboration between engineering, product, design, and business teams.
•    Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and business leaders, ensuring engineering is a trusted co-captain in Fleet’s innovation journey.

Job Experience, Functional Knowledge and Qualifications   Indicate the minimum and preferred education and experience for this job and any licenses and certifications required.

ESSENTIAL

•    3+ years of experience of leading software engineers in an agile environment – using either SCRUM, XP or Kanban
•    Hands-on experience in a Software Engineering role working with JavaScript, Node and/or Java
•    Track record of delivering complex solutions, as part of a high-performing team, in challenging circumstances
•    Experience with Generative AI (GenAI) technologies and their use in software development
•    Effective communication skills, verbally and in writing – both with onshore and remote team members
•    Ability to think strategically and make data-driven decisions while working under pressure
•    Able to balance feature development, tech debt and test coverage in an agile environment
•    Experience working with React, Serverless, ELK Stack, AWS and/or Docker
•    Experience in design of databases such as Postgres, Oracle, MariaDB

DESIRABLE

•    Thorough understanding of concepts, principles and implementation approaches of service-oriented architecture including microservices, micro frontends, docker containers, CI/CD, TDD, Ansible, etc

•    Technical certifications in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
•    Professional SCRUM Master / Agile Leadership or similar certifications
 

Competencies   Indicate the observable behaviours that demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities that the employee should have at a particular level.

•    Analysis & Problem Solving (3): Uses a systematic approach to root cause analysis on complex problems to identify underlying trends and put forward well-thought-out solutions to address the causes and reduce risk.
•    Listening & Communication (3): Is effective in communicating his vision with a wider audience. A good communicator knows when to use which channel, and which tone of voice to drive maximum impact.
•    Collaboration, Inclusion & Teamwork (2): A good team player that is personable, friendly, polite and takes the time to know people. Helps new colleagues and visitors feel welcome. Mentors and encourages junior members.
•    Customer Focus (2): Understands the needs of the customer clarifying requirements and expectations. Adapts as necessary to changing requirements and is responsive, helpful with all requests. Sets high quality for service delivery.
•    Planning & Organising (3): Uses technology and tools to drive effective project planning with projects having clear success criteria and milestones. Escalates in a timely manner and seeks feedback with all colleagues throughout the execution phase mitigating risks as they arise.
•    Initiative (3): Always looks for opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness in their own and other peoples work backed by clear rationale and benefits to the business. Role models desired change behaviour and uses external best practice as reference.
•    Accountability (3): Sets high work and ethical standards for self and others including budget management, work quality, timelines. Ensures that tasks and projects within responsibility areas meet promises made. Acknowledges mistakes openly identifying learnings to be applied.
•    Resilience & Managing Wellbeing (2): Manages and responds to workload pressure with an open mind adjusting approach and seeking help when needed and seeking feedback to improve.
•    Adaptability (2): Seeks to understand the rationale for changes at Fleet looking for different perspectives to facilitate and positively contribute to the initiatives within the team and themselves.
 

Fleet Management Limited is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by local laws.