Public summary
An established e-commerce company based in Germany is seeking a Team Lead Engineering to own and lead the development of core backend applications. The role involves defining a scalable architecture, managing legacy system modernization, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product teams on technical and business goals, and guiding technical strategy and hiring. Industry experience with message queuing systems, high-volume data pipelines, and system observability is essential.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Hamburg
- Remote status
- On-site
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Salary
EUR 85000.00 - 85000.00 yearly
Responsibilities
Own and lead backend architecture and development; define strategic technical direction; manage incremental legacy system modernization projects; collaborate with product leads to balance business and technical priorities; mentor and grow backend engineers; lead hiring and onboarding of engineering talent; ensure alignment on backend architecture and integration; research and propose modern technologies.
Qualifications
Proven experience in legacy-to-modern system migrations; expertise in managing high-volume data pipelines and message queuing technologies such as SQS or RabbitMQ; strong knowledge of industry standards and maintainable software design; project management skills in fast-paced e-commerce environments; expertise in system logging, tracing, and monitoring; passion for mentoring and developing engineering teams.