About this job
<h2>Your mission</h2>
<h2>Lead an outstanding engineering team</h2>
<ul>
<li>Coach engineers through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback</li>
<li>Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and collaboration</li>
<li>Support hiring, onboarding, and professional growth</li>
<li>Remove blockers and help your team perform at its best</li>
</ul>
<h2>Own delivery</h2>
<ul>
<li>Translate product goals into realistic engineering plans</li>
<li>Break down complex initiatives into well-defined work packages</li>
<li>Scope, estimate, and prioritize work together with Product</li>
<li>Balance quality, speed, and business impact</li>
</ul>
<h2>Shape technical direction</h2>
<ul>
<li>Drive architectural decisions within your team</li>
<li>Maintain high engineering standards through reviews and mentoring</li>
<li>Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability</li>
<li>Contribute hands-on to features, refactoring, and production issues</li>
</ul>
<h2>Collaborate across the organisation</h2>
<ul>
<li>Align with other Technical Leads and Product Managers</li>
<li>Coordinate dependencies across teams</li>
<li>Share knowledge and continuously improve engineering practices</li>
</ul>
<h2>Drive AI-first engineering</h2>
<p>We believe AI fundamentally changes how software is built.<br>
You'll:</p>
<ul>
<li>Use AI daily for implementation, code reviews, testing, debugging, documentation, and architecture</li>
<li>Continuously improve engineering workflows using AI</li>
<li>Coach your team in adopting new AI capabilities</li>
<li>Experiment with emerging AI tools and establish best practices</li>
</ul>
<h2>Your profile</h2>
<h2>Technical Experience</h2>
<ul>
<li>5+ years of professional backend or full-stack development</li>
<li>Strong experience with <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> Core</li>
<li>Experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript</li>
<li>Experience building scalable SaaS products</li>
<li>Comfortable working in cloud-native architectures</li>
<li>Experience with Azure and Microsoft 365 APIs is a plus</li>
<li>Experience with F#, or strong C# skills and genuine motivation to learn functional programming</li>
</ul>
<h2>Leadership</h2>
<p>You have already led an engineering team and enjoy helping people grow.<br>
You know how to:</p>
<ul>
<li>scope and estimate complex work</li>
<li>prioritize effectively under changing requirements</li>
<li>balance technical debt with product delivery</li>
<li>make pragmatic engineering decisions</li>
<li>keep teams aligned and accountable
Most importantly, you lead by example and remain hands-on.</li>
</ul>
<h2>AI</h2>
<p>You're an advanced AI user.<br>
You naturally integrate AI into your daily engineering workflow and actively help others become more effective. You're curious, constantly learning, and excited about redefining modern software development.</p>
<h2>Nice to Have</h2>
<ul>
<li>F#</li>
<li>Domain-Driven Design</li>
<li>CQRS</li>
<li>Event Sourcing</li>
<li>Vertical Slice Architecture</li>
<li>Microsoft Graph API</li>
<li>React Native</li>
<li>Enterprise B2B software</li>
<li>Governance or regulated industries</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why us?</h2>
<h2>Build software that matters</h2>
<p>Your work supports board members and executive teams at some of Europe's largest organisations.</p>
<h2>Work with exceptional people</h2>
<p>Join an experienced founder-led company that values ownership, pragmatism, and fast decision-making.</p>
<h2>AI-first engineering</h2>
<p>We're redesigning our engineering workflows around AI—not treating it as an add-on.</p>
<h2>Modern technology</h2>
<p>F#, <a href="http://ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a> Core, React, Azure, Microsoft 365, Event-Driven Architecture, AI, and Functional Programming.</p>
<h2>Remote-first</h2>
<p>Work from wherever you're most productive—our Hamburg office, your home office, or a camper van somewhere in southern Europe.</p>
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