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Tech Lead

Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee
90,000 - 115,000 € per year

What you will be doing

As a Hands-on Tech Lead, your mission is to be the primary technical architect and implementer for cutting-edge digital products, bridging Berlin Bytes' engineering prowess with Kambria's human-centric AI transformation insights. You will drive the entire software development lifecycle, from deeply understanding client needs and defining technical strategies, to hands-on coding and guiding solutions through rapid prototyping and market validation. This role demands end-to-end technical ownership with significant autonomy, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and directly deliver measurable impact. 

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Hands-on Building: Lead the technical design and contribute significant direct code to cutting-edge, user-centric digital solutions and enterprise applications.You'll translate complex business challenges into elegant technical architectures and build out products from the ground up, often integrating AI components.
  • End-to-End Technical Ownership: Take full responsibility for technical decisions, system architecture, and implementation quality. You will guide projects from initial concept through design, development, deployment, and ongoing iteration with minimal oversight.
  • Client Collaboration & Technical Strategy: Work directly with clients to understand their needs, define technical requirements, and present solution approaches. You'll bridge business challenges with technical feasibility.
  • Small Team Enablement: Direct a small, agile team (2-3 engineers) focused on rapid prototyping and market validation of new product concepts. You will provide practical technical mentorship and unblock challenges, ensuring efficient delivery and learning cycles.
  • Engineering Excellence & Code Quality: Lead by example in contributing high-quality, maintainable code. Take full ownership of code quality, technical design patterns, and documentation across the codebase.
  • Pragmatic Technology Exploration: Continuously research, evaluate, and prototype with emerging technologies, including advancements in AI, to creatively address client challenges and unlock new possibilities in digital transformation.
  • Collaborative Technical Environment: Actively share deep technical knowledge and contribute to solution discussions across Berlin Bytes and Kambria teams, fostering an environment of continuous learning and technical problem-solving.
  • Process & Tooling Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to our development workflows, tools, and processes to enhance efficiency and accelerate the delivery of impactful digital and AI solutions.

We need you to have

To build innovative digital products and integrate human-centric AI, we seek a Tech Lead with profound technical expertise, a strong 'maker' mindset, and the autonomy to drive end-to-end solutions. 

Must-Have’s:

  • Technical Autonomy & Problem Solving: Proven ability to take full technical ownership of projects, independently identify and solve complex engineering challenges, and drive solutions from ideation to production deployment. You thrive on hands-on coding and pragmatic application of new technologies.

  • Leadership & Mentorship: Proven experience leading, mentoring, or guiding software engineers, fostering an environment of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

  • Programming Mastery: Deep expertise in at least one widely-adopted backend language (e.g., TypeScript, Golang, Python, Rust, C#, Java) and real-world experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontend frameworks (React, Svelte, Angular, Vue).

  • Backend & Data Architecture: Strong history of building high-performance, scalable APIs and proficiency in data modeling for both relational and NoSQL databases.

  • Infrastructure & Security: Hands-on experience with Docker, the container orchestration ecosystem (Kubernetes, Helm), and a strong understanding of modern authentication systems and security practices (e.g., OIDC).

  • Client-Facing Communication: Ability to effectively explain and present complex technical concepts to cross-functional teams and clients.

  • Languages: Fluency in both German and English (our clients are primarily in the DACH region).


Selected Nice-to-Have’s:

  • Mobile: Experience in mobile app development (Flutter, Kotlin, Swift) to extend digital solutions to mobile platforms.

  • Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), building robust CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CDK).

  • AI/ML Integration: Direct experience working with AI/ML frameworks or successfully integrating AI services/APIs (NLP, computer vision) into production applications.

Benefits

  • Office located directly at Backfabrik.
  • Home Office: We are a team and value the personal face-to-face interaction. Therefore, we prefer our team to come into our office around 3-days per week. You will have a full-time desk available for you in case you want to come in every day. Occasional Workations are of course fine!
  • Gym membership partial coverage.
  • Subsidised BVG job ticket or Deutschlandticket.
  • Company Pension scheme.
The usual perks:
  • New MacBook Pro, Double 4k Screen Setup.
  • Company Day and Party once a quarter.
  • Coffee/Tea and Snacks/Fruits.
  • Team lunch and breakfast once a week.
  • Dog friendly office.
Job practical details:
  • Location: Berlin
  • Commitment: Full-Time
  • Level: Senior II / Principal (depends on experience) 
  • Salary: starting from €90k (base + bonus component)
  • Holidays: 27 days per year

About us

We are Berlin Bytes, a creative software development and consulting agency. Together with Kambria, our AI transformation lever, we design, build, and scale innovative digital and AI-driven solutions. We empower businesses to not just adapt, but thrive and lead in the digital era.