Team Lead (m/f/d) Tech

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of seven software engineers through regular feedback, coaching, career development, and inclusive leadership.
• Stay hands-on by contributing to software development, technical investigations, solution design, code reviews, and incident analysis.
• Guide the team in building and operating reliable software across industrial Raspberry Pi-based edge devices and AWS services.
• Help the team establish strong practices for coding, testing, automation, documentation, monitoring, and production operations.
• Collaborate closely with the team’s Product Owner to translate business needs into clear priorities and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Improve the team’s way of working together with the Scrum Master and other team leads. This includes improving planning, prioritization, ownership, decision-making, quality, and follow-through.
• Help the team move from reactive incident handling toward prevention, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Reduce unnecessary dependencies and handoffs, and strengthen collaboration with product teams, operations, systems engineers, and architects.
• Support the team in making transparent, timely technical decisions while balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Identify technical risks and technical debt, and ensure they are considered in planning and prioritization.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team development.

Who you are

You are an experienced software engineer who enjoys remaining technically engaged and contributing hands-on.

You have experience leading, mentoring, or developing software engineers. Formal people-management experience is a must; equivalent leadership experience gained through technical leadership, mentoring, or project ownership is also welcome.

You have practical experience with several of the following: Linux-based systems, edge devices, AWS and cloud-based systems, Infrastructure as code, production operations, monitoring, and incident response, Python, Event-based messaging patterns and distributed systems.

You are comfortable understanding systems across the edge-to-cloud landscape and connecting device constraints with reliable, maintainable cloud solutions.

You can set direction and boundaries while giving people room to solve problems independently.

You communicate clearly, listen actively, and can facilitate healthy technical debate and decisive outcomes.

You are committed to inclusive leadership, candid feedback, and continuous learning.

You are pragmatic and able to balance speed, quality, technical risk, and long-term value.

You are motivated to help a team become more capable, autonomous, and sustainable.

Are you a good fit for us?

Diversity enriches our team and makes us stronger. Regardless of origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, or any disability – everyone is welcome here! We look forward to receiving your application and achieving great things together.

Your contact person

Vanessa [email protected]