Engineering Lead

Financial Controller @ Attio; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in an early-stage tech company

Apple hardware

Team off-sites in Barcelona, Lisbon, (

Location-specific benefits

Job summary

Attio is seeking an Engineering Lead in Germany to guide a small, focused team of engineers across backend or frontend, delivering end-to-end features for Attio's real-time, AI-native platform. You will recruit, mentor, and shape architecture while collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure scalable outcomes.

You will contribute technical expertise in Node.js/Typescript, Go, or React, drive product decisions with customers, and embody Attio's high standards for quality and

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems.
• Expertise with modern cloud architectures (GCP or AWS).
• Deep knowledge of Node.js/Typescript or Go for backend, or React for frontend.

Responsibilities

• Contribute across the stack delivering features end-to-end.
• Recruit and develop a top-class engineering team.
• Design and evolve the technical architecture to scale.
• Lead projects and make product decisions with customer feedback.
• Represent Attio's Product & Engineering values internally and externally.

Skills

Backend design

Cloud architectures

Node.js/Typescript

Go

React

Team leadership

Communication

Job description

Attio is the CRM for agentic revenue. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A.

We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier.

If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place.

About the role

Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless - all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality.

We're looking for Engineering Leads who are passionate about building incredible teams that will push boundaries, obsess over details, and reinvent how millions of people work. This is a hands-on role which combines individual technical contribution with leadership of a small, focused team of engineers.

What you'll do

• Contribute across the stack, bringing to bear your high calibre technical expertise in either Backend (Typescript/Node.js/Go/GCP) or Frontend (React), to deliver features end-to-end to our customers.
• Recruit and develop a top-class team of engineers that own a critical area of Attio's product.
• Design and evolve our technical architecture to support Attio's rapidly increasing scale.
• Lead projects and make product decisions based on interactions with customers.
• Represent Attio's Product & Engineering values both internally and externally.

What you'll bring

• Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems.
• Excellent knowledge of modern cloud architectures (either GCP or AWS).
• Demonstrable deep expertise with Node.js/Typescript or Go for backend development, or React for frontend development.
• Experience managing a team of engineers, and working with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas to the wider team and influence decisions.
• A desire and aptitude for leading and growing a great engineering team.

What we offer

• Competitive salary of 120,000 to 145,000
• Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory
• Apple hardware
• Team off-site in fun places! (We've been to Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far)
• Location specific benefits

nb. We are open to candidates currently living in: Poland, Germany, Portugal, Ireland