Team Lead Engineering (f/m/d) - Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region

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Client:

Hygraph

Location:

Berlin, Germany

Job Category:

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

7524bb060479

Job Views:

14

Posted:

23.04.2025

Expiry Date:

07.06.2025

Job Description:

Purpose of your role as an Engineering Team Lead

As a Hands-On Engineering Team Lead, you will guide our engineering team while actively contributing to technical development. This role blends leadership, mentorship, and hands-on technical work, ensuring project success through collaboration and innovation.

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL, GraphQL, REST, Pulumi, AWS, Fastly, New Relic, Github actions

What you'll do:

1. Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to prioritize and plan projects that add real value to our users.
2. Actively participate in coding, debugging, and system architecture decisions, identify architectural improvements, prioritize, and act on them.
3. Drive technical excellence through best practices, code reviews, and design discussions.
4. Work with the team on strategy and execution, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
5. Help engineers identify and grow in their areas of interest by coaching, mentoring, and giving timely feedback.
6. Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices.
7. Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.

Onboarding Timeline:

1 Month: You have gone through different onboarding sessions covering our product, current architecture, and relevant services we run on production, learned about the company's origin and current vision, and met colleagues from different departments as part of onboarding, as well as weekly virtual social events.

3 Months: You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully. You will have a regular cadence and schedule 1:1s with your team members to check in on how things are going. You will have collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.

6 Months: You will have made solid contributions to our product and stack, influenced our ways of working, and shared knowledge and previous experiences, helping substantially with important decision-making.

What we expect from you:

1. 8+ years of hands-on full-stack development experience, ideally using JS/TS and React.
2. 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role, covering people and delivery management.
3. Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable.
4. Experience developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST.
5. Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs.
6. Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership but also ask for help and advice when needed.
7. Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization.
8. Experience driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality.
9. Experience with GraphQL, Golang, Docker, and containerized applications.
10. Experience with monitoring and observability tooling.
11. Experience with web performance monitoring.

The Process:

1. Intro call with People Team
2. Technical Interview
3. Team Fit call
4. Reference Check and Offer

About us:

Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup that, in its recent round, raised $35M in funding. Driven by our core values of innovation, reliability, empowerment, agility, and scalability, Hygraph empowers thousands of developers and content teams to create dynamic digital experiences that effortlessly engage their customers.

At Hygraph, we're building a Headless Content Management system (CMS) that provides a flexible and scalable platform for seamlessly managing and delivering content across various platforms. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations, such as Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung, Ashley Furniture, Telenor, Philips, and Gamescom.

You will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team who are committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We are an international and friendly team spread across 18 countries. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.

Hygraph is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity.