Lead Software Engineer (fmd) Platform & Infrastructure

hallo theo; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A modern digital service provider in Berlin is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to build and maintain vital cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will guide architecture and technology decisions, ensuring your platform supports rapid product deployment. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in cloud environments, technical leadership skills, and proficiency in English and German. You will collaborate closely with various teams to create robust solutions, making a significant impact across the service delivery landscape.

Qualifikationen

• 7–10 years of experience in a senior or lead capacity as a Platform/Infrastructure/Backend Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience in a modern cloud environment.
• Excellent communication skills in English and German at C1 level or above.

Aufgaben

• Design, build and operate the cloud platform ensuring high availability.
• Lead platform architecture and governance.
• Act as technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives.

Kenntnisse

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure-as-code

CI/CD tooling

Java

Python

Networking

Containers

Observability

Tools

Jenkins

Active Directory

AWS

Linux

Puppet

Jobbeschreibung

Your Mission

As Lead Platform Engineer at hallo theo you build and maintain the core infrastructure and platform services that enable scalable reliable deployment and operation of our products. You own cloud infrastructure system design and development enablement so that product and data teams can ship quickly safely and in a compliant this senior role you act as the technical backbone of the product organisation : you make key architecture and technology decisions introduce standards and guardrails and ensure our platform keeps pace with the growth of our business. Working closely with Product Engineers Forward Deployed Engineers Data IT Ops and DevSecOps you turn requirements from across the company into a robust future-proof foundation for our platform.

Your Responsibilities

• Design build and operate our cloud platform (infrastructure runtime networking observability security) to ensure high availability performance and cost efficiency.
• Own development enablement : CI / CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code tooling and documentation that allow teams to build test and deploy autonomously while staying on the happy path.
• Lead platform architecture and governance including vendor selection platform technology choices and technical quality and security standards for the platform area.
• Act as technical leader for platform topics : drive cross-team initiatives review designs and code and mentor engineers working with the platform.
• Collaborate closely with Product Data IT Ops and Operations to translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic iterative platform roadmaps and solutions.

Preferred Background

• 710 years of experience as a Platform / Infrastructure / Backend Engineer working on distributed systems in a modern cloud environment including several years in a senior or lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. networking containers and orchestration databases monitoring / logging) and infrastructure-as-code plus CI / CD tooling.
• Solid software engineering background in at least one modern backend language and ecosystem (e.g. Java / Kotlin Go Python) including testing and observability.
• Proven track record in technical leadership : driving architecture decisions leading cross-team initiatives mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.
• Comfortable taking ownership of vendor and technology choices including security reliability and compliance implications.
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working proficiency in English and German at C1 level or above.

Nice to have

• Experience in B2B SaaS platform or operations-heavy businesses.
• Exposure to data platforms and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with DevSecOps compliance and data-protection topics.
• Prior involvement in building or leading an engineering practice (e.g. defining standards running guilds / chapters supporting hiring and onboarding).

Why Join Us

At hallo theo Platform Engineering is a core lever for transforming a traditional offline industry into a modern digital service. As Lead Platform Engineer you join early enough to shape our architecture standards and ways of working while already having real customers scale and funding behind you. You will work in a small senior cross-functional environment with direct access to Product and Data & Tech leadership short decision paths and plenty of autonomy. Your work will make life easier for every engineer at hallo theo and directly impact how reliably and efficiently we can serve owners and tenants across Germany.

Key Skills

Jenkins,Ruby,Python,Active Directory,Cloud,PowerShell,Windows,AWS,Linux,SAN,Java,Troubleshoot,Backup,Puppet,hardware

Employment Type : Employee

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1