Tech Lead

Jobtailor; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

UniSea Group is looking for an Engineering Manager in Berlin who will lead and mentor a skilled engineering team. You’ll be hands-on, write production code, review critical MRs, and defend simple, scalable architectures.

You’ll own resource allocation, run standups, 1:1s, and performance conversations, while shaping engineering standards, processes, and on‑call rotations. Fluency in English is required; German is not required, and relocation to Berlin is welcome.

Qualifikationen

• 2–5+ years leading or managing a team of engineers; you have hired, mentored, given hard feedback, and made calls that did not work and learned from them.
• Depth matters more than years.
• Engineer first in your identity.
• You enjoy the code, you read other people's code, and you have strong, defendable opinions on language and framework choice, testing posture, and abstraction level.
• Genuinely hands-on.
• Strong on at least one of: Python / Django, TypeScript / React, infra (Docker / Postgres / cloud).
• Comfortable reading the others.
• You can still write production code today.
• Earned soft skills.
• You can disagree with senior people and have them think more of you afterward.
• You can give an engineer feedback that lands.
• You can read a room.
• Real track record of growing people.
• You can name engineers who grew under you, what they grew into, and what you did to help.
• Resource-allocation instinct based on real knowledge of people, not a spreadsheet.
• Rapid-prototyping reflex.
• Production-grade taste.
• Fluent English.
• German is not required.
• Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.

Aufgaben

• Run the team day‑to‑day: standups, 1:1s, performance conversations, hiring loops, the engineering side of the on‑call rotation.
• You set the cadence and the cadence holds.
• Allocate engineers to projects based on real knowledge of their strengths, weaknesses, and where they need to grow.
• Mentor and grow people. Give hard feedback the day it is relevant, not at review season.
• Extract architectural guidance from the CTO and VP Engineering and turn it into a plan the team can execute on.
• Stay hands‑on: write production code, review the hard MRs, defend simplicity over premature abstraction, push back on shipping blockers.
• Continuously improve how we work — engineering process, tools, standards — as we grow within the UniSea Group.

Kenntnisse

Engineering Leadership

Hands-on Coding

Python / Django

TypeScript / React

Docker / Postgres

Mentorship

Resource Allocation

Fluent English

Tools

Docker

Postgres

Cloud Infrastructure

Jobbeschreibung

• Prototype the hard problems yourself.
• When product direction is unclear, you write the spike: small, ugly, fast, built to surface the real complexity.
• You hand the load‑bearing core to the team, stay in the loop while they scale it, and defend the architectural choices that came out of the prototype.
• Run the team day‑to‑day: standups, 1:1s, performance conversations, hiring loops, the engineering side of the on‑call rotation.
• You set the cadence and the cadence holds.
• Allocate engineers to projects based on real knowledge of their strengths, weaknesses, and where they need to grow.
• Mentor and grow people. Give hard feedback the day it is relevant, not at review season.
• Extract architectural guidance from the CTO and VP Engineering and turn it into a plan the team can execute on.
• Stay hands‑on: write production code, review the hard MRs, defend simplicity over premature abstraction, push back on shipping blockers.
• Continuously improve how we work — engineering process, tools, standards — as we grow within the UniSea Group.

Requirements

• 2–5+ years leading or managing a team of engineers; you have hired, mentored, given hard feedback, and made calls that did not work and learned from them.
• Depth matters more than years.
• Engineer first in your identity.
• You enjoy the code, you read other people's code, and you have strong, defendable opinions on language and framework choice, testing posture, and abstraction level.
• Genuinely hands‑on.
• Strong on at least one of: Python / Django, TypeScript / React, infra (Docker / Postgres / cloud).
• Comfortable reading the others.
• You can still write production code today.
• Earned soft skills.
• You can disagree with senior people and have them think more of you afterward.
• You can give an engineer feedback that lands.
• You can read a room.
• Real track record of growing people.
• You can name engineers who grew under you, what they grew into, and what you did to help.
• Resource-allocation instinct based on real knowledge of people, not a spreadsheet.
• Rapid‑prototyping reflex.
• Production‑grade taste.
• Fluent English.
• German is not required.
• Based in Berlin or willing to relocate.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong leadership in engineering management, with a focus on mentoring, resource allocation, and hands‑on coding. Proficient in Python, Django, TypeScript, React, and infrastructure tools like Docker and Postgres, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and effective communication.

Highest‑signal resume keywords

• Engineering Team Leadership
• Hands‑On Coding
• Python / Django Expertise
• TypeScript / React Proficiency
• Mentorship and Growth of Engineers

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Python
• Django
• TypeScript
• React
• Docker
• Postgres
• Rapid Prototyping
• Production Code Writing
• Architectural Guidance
• Performance Conversations

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Giving Feedback
• Reading a Room
• Disagreeing with Senior People
• Team Management

Industry Keywords

• Engineering Management
• Team Allocation
• Continuous Improvement
• Production‑Grade Taste
• Fluent English

Tools & Technologies

• Cloud Infrastructure
• Engineering Standards
• Engineering Processes
• On‑Call Rotation Management
• Performance Management Tools