Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Free resume; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 53,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch benefit (subsidized)

One free lunch per week

BVG ticket discount

e-bike leasing

Urban Sports Club

Mental well-being app

Team events

Job summary

Alteos in Berlin (City-West) seeks a Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d) to own the Configuration Experience team, shaping delivery direction while staying hands-on. You will research solutions, write RFCs, build PoCs, and ship code across frontend and backend, leveraging a cloud-agnostic approach and AI-enabled tooling.

You will mentor peers, run team meetings, and grow your leadership skills as the role remains heavily technical.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience leading or managing people, even briefly.
• Full-stack understanding with frontend and backend and a cloud-agnostic mindset.
• Experience applying AI tools in engineering workflows, including multi-agent setups.
• Insurance or finance experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of Configuration Experience and set delivery direction.
• Research technical solutions, write RFCs, build PoCs, and ship code.
• Act as sparring partner for product managers on business and technical decisions.
• Keep delivery on track: plan, follow agile principles, meet deadlines.
• Lead by example, provide feedback, mentor growth; time spent mainly on technical work.
• Identify obstacles early, resolve them, and keep stakeholders informed.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Leadership experience

Full-stack

AI tools

Job description

Job Description

These tasks are waiting for you

• Take technical ownership of Configuration Experience - the team that builds and manages our insurance products - and set the direction for how the team delivers.
• Spend the bulk of your time hands-on: researching technical solutions, writing RFCs, building PoCs with other teams, and shipping the resulting code yourself.
• Act as a sparring partner for product managers and stakeholders on key business and technical decisions.
• Keep delivery on track - plan realistically, follow agile principles, hit deadlines.
• Lead people by example: give feedback, run team meetings, support colleagues' growth. This is a smaller part of the role - most of your time stays technical.
• Spot obstacles early, resolve them, and keep stakeholders proactively informed.

This is what you bring to the table

You don't need to tick every box. If this sounds like your kind of work, we want to hear from you.

• Solid hands-on experience as a software engineer with Node.js and TypeScript.
• First experience leading or managing people - you don't need years of management under your belt, but you've done it at least once and want to grow into it further.
• Full-stack understanding across frontend and backend, with a cloud-agnostic mindset.
• Solid experience working with AI tools in your engineering workflow - Harnesses, delegating tasks to subagents, orchestrating multi-agent setups, and similar. Clear communicator, motivated to grow into building and guiding a team over time.
• Insurance or finance experience is a plus.

What we offer

Together with our investor, AXA, we offer a combination of entrepreneurial freedom, leading technological know-how, reliability and extensive experience in the conception and management of insurance solutions that is rather unusual for the insurance industry.

When you become part of our team, you can expect to work with incredibly versatile and talented colleagues.

• The opportunity to lead and grow an exciting team
• The opportunity to shape the future of insurance by contributing to the strategy and success of Alteos and further advancing one of the worlds leading core insurance systems
• Modern working in the middle of Berlin's City-West, with a wide range of perks and benefits. To name a few: subsidized lunch & one free lunch a week, discount on BVG ticket, company (e-)bike leasing, urban sports club, mental well-being app
• Many opportunities to connect with your colleagues outside of daily work, e.g.through team events, weekly yoga classes, team runs and more

Want to stand out for this Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d) position?

Remote full-time en 53,000-59,000 EUR/yr