Tech Lead - E-Commerce (f/m/d)

<p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">kfzteile24 is Germany's leading digital company for car parts and automotive equipment. As a Berlin-based multichannel company, we own successful online shops like kfzteile24.de, autoteile24.de, and carpardoo in multiple European countries. We are Germany's best-known brand in the online aftermarket. With expert advice, a wide range of products and fast, reliable deliveries, we ensure individual mobility for our customers.</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">As a </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Tech Lead – E-Commerce (f/m/d)</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">, you will own the technical direction of a cross-functional engineering team at the heart of our e-commerce platform. Your services power the customer journeys that millions of users depend on — from product discovery to checkout. You will define architecture, drive quality standards, and translate product ambitions into robust, scalable systems built on Java, Spring Boot, and Vue.js. Beyond the codebase, you will shape how your team engineers: establishing Spec Driven Development as a daily practice, setting guardrails for AI-assisted workflows, and developing engineers who think in systems — not just features. At kfzteile24, technical leadership means taking end-to-end ownership: of the code, the team, and the impact.</span></span></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><h4><br><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">What we offer</span></span></h4><ul><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Permanent employment contract and 30 days vacation</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Possibility of home office 3 days a week</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Internal and external training opportunities</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Up to 50% employee discount in our branches and workshops</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Various health and sport offers (e.g. Bike-Leasing, screen glasses / monitor glasses (VDU))</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Additional benefits such as language courses via Babbel, company pension plan, corporate benefits</span></span></p></li></ul><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><h4><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Your responsibility</span></span></h4><ul><li><p><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Own the Technical Direction:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> Define the architecture and technical vision for your team's services within our e-commerce platform (Java, Spring Boot, Vue.js). Make decisions, reduce technical debt, and keep the codebase healthy and future-proof.</span></span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Drive Agentic Engineering:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> Pioneer Spec Driven Development in daily engineering workflows. Establish quality gates and review standards for AI-generated code.</span></span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Build and Grow the Team:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> Shape processes, rituals, and culture for your team. Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance. Coordinate with adjacent product teams across the e-commerce domain. Foster a quality mindset.</span></span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Deliver Business Impact:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> Collaborate closely with Product and UX to continuously improve customer journeys and conversion. Enable data-driven decisions through A/B testing and experimentation.</span></span></p></li><li><p><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Ship:</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> Take end-to-end responsibility for the team's delivery and operational stability.</span></span></p></li></ul> <br> <h4><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Your skills</span></span></h4><ul><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">5+ years of professional software development, with a track record of delivering complex, high-performance web applications at scale</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Hands-on technical leadership experience - guiding decisions, coordinating implementation and developing engineers</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Strong coding skills across a modern e-commerce stack - Java on the backend, JavaScript (VueJS, Angular or React) on the frontend, paired with a fullstack mindset.</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">You have built or owned features in at least two core e-commerce domains - checkout, payments, routing, product listings, search, order management or similar - and understand what makes them hard at scale.</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">You build with AI. Tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot are part of your daily workflow, and you have opinions on what they do well, where they fail, and how to set up the right guardrails.</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">You think in systems - across services, domains, and team boundaries. You make architectural trade-offs with the long view in mind, communicate them clearly to engineers and stakeholders, and bring people along.</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Proficiency in English required. German is a strong plus - internal communication is a mix of both</span></span></p></li></ul><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><h4><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Bonus Skills</span></span></h4><ul><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Experience with cloud services (AWS), monitoring (New Relic, OpenTelemetry), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and observability at scale</span></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Experience with (technical) SEO / GEO</span></span></p></li></ul><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><h4><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Apply now!</span></span></h4><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">If you would like to be part of our motivated IT team, apply now for the position with us as </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Tech Lead - E-Commerce (f/m/d)</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">, stating your salary expectations and your earliest starting date. If you have any questions, please contact </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">Irina Ring </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317">at</span></span><strong><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"> +49 1520 315 4804.</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size:0.9em"><span style="color:#121317"><br>Please note that we only consider applications via our online portal. 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