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

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

What you'll do :

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

Onboarding and Growth Milestones:

• 1 Month: Completed onboarding sessions, learned about our product, architecture, and company vision, met colleagues, and contributed to the codebase.
• 3 Months: Familiar with most concepts related to our product, collaborated on feature delivery, and improved our architecture and developer experience.
• 6 Months: Made significant contributions, influenced ways of working, and shared knowledge to aid decision-making.

What we expect from you :

• 8+ years of hands-on full-stack development experience, ideally with JS / TS and React.
• 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role, managing people and delivery.
• Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns.
• Developing APIs using GraphQL and/or REST.
• Strong skills in analyzing requirements and creating technical designs.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with ability to take ownership and seek help when needed.
• Openness to feedback, learning, and growth.
• Experience with GraphQL, Golang, Docker, containerized applications, monitoring, and web performance tools.

The Process

• Intro call with People Team
• Technical Interview
• Team Fit call
• Reference Check and Offer

About us

Hygraph is a Berlin-based startup that has recently raised $35M. We value innovation, reliability, empowerment, agility, and scalability. We empower thousands of developers and content teams to create dynamic digital experiences. We build a Headless CMS trusted by over 50,000 organizations including Dr. Oetker, Samsung, and Philips. Our team is remote-first, globally distributed across 18 countries, committed to collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning. We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity to foster innovation and creativity.