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As a Tech Lead at AskUI, you will drive the technical vision, strategy, and execution of our AI-driven automation platform. You will guide and mentor a team of engineers, ensuring the delivery of scalable, high-performance, and maintainable solutions. Your key responsibilities include:

• Defining and driving the technical roadmap in alignment with business objectives.
• Leading and mentoring engineers to foster a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
• Making architectural decisions and guiding best practices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability.
• Working hands-on with the team to develop and optimize core features of our automation platform.
• Collaborating closely with product managers, AI researchers, and designers to create seamless solutions.
• Driving continuous improvement in engineering processes, tools, and workflows.
• Ensuring code quality, testing, and deployment best practices are followed.
• Advocating for innovation and staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Your Profile

Requirements:

• 3 - 4 years proven experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar leadership role.
• Proficiency with at least one frontend framework (e.g., Next.js, Angular, React).
• Deep knowledge of software architecture and design, with a focus on distributed systems, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), hexagonal architecture, event-driven architecture, and understanding of quality trees and scenarios.
• Experience with diverse databases and storage solutions, including relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL) and cloud storage options (e.g., S3, Snowflake).
• Experience working with modern Agentic Frameworks like LangChain, SmolAgents, or Crew.ai.
• Experience working with modern LLM / LAM Model Providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Bytedance, or DeepSeek, with a strong understanding of integrating AI models into product solutions.
• Experience in leading agile teams and delivering high-impact products in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven decision-making approach.
• Thorough experience with most of the phases of the DevOps LifeCycle (and at least a clear picture of and interest in learning about the rest of the phases).

Additional Responsibilities:

• Taking incoming requirements and clarifying them.
• Transforming them into software design and architecture.
• Implementing and releasing it.
• Integrating and deploying it.
• Operating and monitoring the software.
• Debugging and fixing bugs.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for AI-driven automation and its transformative potential.
• Fluency in English.

Bonus:

• Hands-on experience with agentic AI, large language models (LLMs), or reinforcement learning.
• Expertise in DevOps, MLOps, or AI Ops.
• Experience with security and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2).
• Background in performance optimization, high-scale systems, and observability.
• Previous experience in a startup or high-growth tech company.

Our Offer:

• Highly competitive salary + stock options (depending on experience).
• Flexible working hours and async work encouraged. We let you create your work day around your personal life not the other way around.
• Awesome team events, like surfing in Portugal, hiking and canoeing in the Bavarian forest.
• Choose how you want to work: Fully remote, in our office in Karlsruhe / Berlin, or hybrid.
• Free choice of your equipment.
• Opportunity to have a high and lasting impact on product, company, and people.

Join us in revolutionizing automation with AI. Let’s shape the future together!

About us:

Build the next-generation AI-driven automation platform and make a lasting impact on the world.

Ready for the future of automation?

At AskUI, we're on a mission to liberate humans from mundane tasks. Our AI-powered automation engine helps businesses save valuable resources locked up in repetitive manual processes, especially within legacy third-party apps that don't expose their logical structure through APIs. Join us in our quest to turn the "ordinary" into "extraordinary" and change the way businesses operate.

We are a remote-first company with a diverse, mission-driven team drawing experiences from top-tier companies like Otto, Siemens, SAP, and Crytek. Based in Karlsruhe, Germany, we practice a unique blend of lean and agile methodologies - like using a variety of (AI) tools in our day-to-day lives to maximize productivity - designed to support our bold mission.