Founding Engineering Team Lead (HandsOn)

Free resume; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding Team Member Equity

Competitive Compensation

Founding Team Status

Remote full-time

Job summary

TechBiz Global in Berlin seeks a Founding Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a hands-on engineering group for a client’s SaaS platform. You will drive technical direction, design secure system boundaries, and supervise delivery across backend, data, and DevOps while writing a substantial portion of code.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in software engineering, 3+ years leading teams, and deep GoLang/AWS experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on.
• 3+ years of GoLang experience.
• 3+ years of AWS in production environments.
• Strong code quality and architectural review experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a small, high-performing engineering team while remaining hands-on.
• Design, build, and review production backend and platform code with the team.
• Own delivery of the engineering roadmap with speed, quality and security.
• Set architecture direction and enforce engineering standards.
• Contribute to critical features, integrations, and platform foundations.
• Establish lightweight engineering processes for fast execution.
• Mentor engineers via code reviews and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with CEO, CPTO, and product leadership on decisions.

Skills

GoLang

AWS

System design

Leadership

Code quality

Startup mindset

People leadership

Security architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Prometheus

Job description

Founding Engineering Team Lead (HandsOn)

Job Description

At TechBiz Global, we are providing recruitment service to our TOP clients from our portfolio. We are currently seeking a Founding Engineering Team Lead to join one of our clients ' team in Berlin. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to grow in a innovative environment, this could be the perfect fit for you.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and grow a small, high-performing engineering team while remaining hands-on

Design, build, and review production backend and platform code alongside the team

Own delivery of the engineering roadmap, balancing speed, quality, and security

Act as a technical leader by setting architecture direction and enforcing engineering standards

Contribute directly to critical features, integrations, and platform foundations

Establish lightweight engineering processes that enable fast execution without bureaucracy

Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

Contribute hands-on in design and build architecture, configure systems, code 70% of the time in GoLang.

Remove blockers and unblock delivery across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps

Collaborate closely with CEO, CPTO, and product leadership on technical and execution decisions

Support hiring, onboarding, and technical evaluation of engineers

Foster a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and low ego

Build whole Security platform setup from scratch

Partner closely with backend and AI engineers to design secure service boundaries and deployment models

Troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents across infrastructure, networking, and application layers

Build PoCs and validate infrastructure and security design decisions in an early-stage environment

Support compliance readiness by enabling controls, logging, and evidence collection for security frameworks

Continuously improve platform cost efficiency, reliability, and operational maturity

This role reports directly to CEO & CPTO

Must have skills:

10+ years of professional software engineering experience

3+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on

3+ years of GoLang experience

3+ years experience with AWS in production environments

Strong code quality bar and experience with architectural reviews

Ability to context-switch between technical topics and people leadership

Strong execution mindset and comfort operating under ambiguity

Hands-on coding mentality; can build things from scratch including security architecture yourself

Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized workloads

Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

Experience with monitoring, logging, observability (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)

Experience with Coding CoPilots (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, AWS CodeWhisperer, Codex, etc.)

Knowledge of Experience supporting production SaaS platforms

High ownership mentality, startup mindset, and ability to move quickly

Experience in startup or scale-up environments

Low ego, high commitment, and a true tech startup mentality

Nice-to-have requirements:

Previous experience as a founding or early-stage Engineering Manager

Experience in cybersecurity , identity, or enterprise SaaS platforms

Exposure to DevOps, SRE, or data engineering

Experience scaling teams and systems simultaneously

Experience with security architecture, identity security, or security engineering

Familiarity with compliance frameworks (NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2)

Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, API tokens, IdP, scopes, SSO, SCIM, roles, RBAC/ABAC, service accounts

Familiarity with cloud identity and security controls (e.g. IAM, CloudTrail, Azure Active Directory / Entra ID )

Hands-on with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar

Experience designing permission models, identity graphs, or access control frameworks

Knowledge of tokenization, Zero Trust principles , least privilege, and continuous verification

Experience with Security related to AI/LLM systems, agent logic, or willingness to learn fast

Familiarity with AI agent behavior , LLM security, or agent sandboxing

Previous experience in cybersecurity , identity startups

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Founding Team Member Equity — ESOPs in a well funded cybersecurity company.

Competitive Compensation — salary aligned with market, flexible early-stage arrangements possible.

Founding Team Member Status — shape the company from day one and own critical security technical decisions. <

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