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title: 'Team Lead, Engineering at NFQ'
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# Team Lead, Engineering at NFQ

- **Company:** NFQ
- **Location:** Vilnius, Lithuania / Kaunas, Lithuania
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/nfq/3a148e74-442e-429b-b300-f66b0b4ca20e

## About NFQ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NFQ builds the digital systems behind high-growth businesses — from e-commerce and logistics platforms to AI-powered products — combining software engineering, UX/UI, data science, and digital strategy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (not publicly listed; no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Kaunas, Lithuania (founding city; active offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Krakow, Montreal, Laval, and remote hubs across Lithuania & Poland)
- **Founded**: 2002
- **Founders**: Four unnamed engineers in Kaunas, Lithuania (founding team launched NFQ Technologies)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Digital product development and technology consulting (software development, AI, UX/UI, data science, e-commerce, logistics tech)
- **Target Customers**: Startups, scale-ups, and global enterprises — especially in e-commerce, travel, logistics, media, and education
- **Mission/Purpose**: "Guiding highly ambitious companies through the noise, creating the competitive edge for winning and owning the game." / "Empowering digital transformation & innovation, enabling the world’s most ambitious companies to not only compete but lead their industries."

## Products & Services
- **Custom Software Development**: Full-cycle engineering for web, mobile, and backend platforms (SaaS and enterprise-grade systems).
- **Digital Product Development**: End-to-end product design, prototyping, and delivery, from modernization to net-new digital products.
- **UX/UI Services**: User research, wireframing, interface design, and design systems.
- **BI & Data Science**: Analytics, data pipelines, dashboards, and AI/ML-driven decision-making tools.
- **Mobile App Development**: iOS/Android app design, engineering, and lifecycle management.
- **Email Marketing Services**: Automated campaign platforms and lifecycle marketing technology.
- **IT Architecture & System Planning**: Technical strategy, system design, integration, and modernization roadmaps.
- **Infrastructure Services**: Cloud architecture, DevOps, and scalable infrastructure operations.
- **Technology Audit**: Security, performance, and architecture assessments.
- **AI Services**: AI agents, LLM-based solutions, and applied AI product development — including dedicated AI solution examples like an AI-powered lesson planning tool for schools.
- **PALM for Logistics**: A specialized logistics platform solution.
- **Omnichannel E-commerce Solutions**: Commerce platforms unifying content, data, and customer journeys across channels.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $10B+ GMV processed through NFQ-built systems yearly; 1000+ successful projects delivered
- **Headcount**: 600+ employees across 10 countries and 4 continents
- **Notable Clients/Partners**: Men in Blazers Media Network (built centralized digital fan platform), KAYAK/Booking Holdings (through acquired Swoodoo), OXID eSales, plus e-commerce, travel, logistics, and education clients
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Founded 2002; expanded to 10 countries across 4 continents over 23+ years
  - Vietnam office recognized as one of the country's best IT companies by ITviec for 6 consecutive years (2019–2024)
  - Recent expansions to Denmark and Saudi Arabia
  - NFQ Asia and NFQ Solutions rebranded as Gradion in 2025, deepening AI engineering and strategic consulting across Asia, DACH, and MEA
  - Active hiring in engineering, AI, security, and HR roles across multiple locations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multi-domain engineering depth**: Delivers across e-commerce, travel, logistics, media, and education — not a single-vertical consultancy.
- **Scale track record**: $10B+ GMV flowing through their systems annually demonstrates enterprise-grade reliability.
- **Full-stack capability**: Combines engineering, UX/UI, data science, AI, infrastructure, and marketing tech under one roof.
- **Bootstrapped longevity**: 23+ years in business without external funding pressure indicates sustainable, client-funded growth.
- **Global delivery model**: 600+ specialists across Europe, Asia, and North America enable follow-the-sun delivery and diverse talent acquisition.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI delivery at scale**: Investing in AI agents, LLM-based products, and applied AI services (including a dedicated AI solution unit).
- **Regional brand restructuring**: NFQ Asia and NFQ Solutions consolidated under the Gradion brand to unify deep-tech engineering, AI delivery, and strategic consulting across Asia, DACH, and MEA; NFQ Digital Creatives and NFQ Technologies continue under the NFQ name.
- **Geographic expansion**: Recent entry into Denmark and Saudi Arabia signals intent to grow in European and Middle Eastern markets.
- **Enterprise modernization**: Helping established companies modernize legacy systems and integrate with modern digital ecosystems.

## Why Work Here
- **Flexible work as a core promise**: Unlimited work-from-home policy and hybrid options across Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Krakow, Montreal, Laval, and remote within Lithuania & Poland.
- **Growth mindset culture**: Mentorship is built into the experience, with support to grow beyond team, project, and role boundaries.
- **Autonomy and trust**: Leadership emphasizes mutual trust and gives "everyone the green light to take initiative."
- **International environment**: Truly global team across 4 continents with 1000+ delivered projects — an opportunity to work on complex, cross-border products.
- **Diverse tech exposure**: Work spans e-commerce, logistics, travel, media, AI, and education — enabling broad skill-building across industries and technologies.
- **Current openings** (as of search): Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead, Lead AI Engineer (Python), Information Security Manager, HR & Office Operations Specialist.

## Sources
1. [nfq.com](https://www.nfq.com/)
2. [nfq.com — About Us](https://www.nfq.com/about-nfq/about-us/)
3. [nfq.com — Career](https://www.nfq.com/career/)
4. [nfq.com — Career US](https://www.nfq.com/us/career/)
5. [jobs.lever.co/nfq](https://jobs.lever.co/nfq)

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