Platform Tech Lead

Scout24 product teams own their services from development through production. Application Platform provides the shared capabilities that hundreds of engineers across Scout24 and its subsidiaries use to build, release, observe, operate and recover software. As Technical Lead, you will set the platform's technical direction and continue to build and operate software.

What you'll do

• Shape platform strategy and turn approved decisions into architecture, service interfaces, technical standards and a clear delivery order.
• Lead major initiatives and migrations across team boundaries. Own build-versus-buy analysis and make the technical call, escalating decisions that would change platform strategy to the Head of Application Platform.
• Design and build platform capabilities and automation, including integrations over managed services, our AWS EKS compute platform, and the shared software-delivery path.
• Turn recurring developer needs into secure, reliable APIs and self-service workflows, including machine-usable interfaces for AI agents.
• Set and improve standards for reliability, observability, security, maintainability, and performance.
• Strengthen incident learning and disaster recovery, and share on-call with the engineers who build the platform.
• Work with product teams to test whether shared capabilities meet their needs.
• Explain platform decisions in technical discussions and mentor engineers across career levels.

What you'll need

• You have worked as a product engineer, building and operating production services end to end, and want to apply that experience to platforms used by other engineers.
• You build production software in Go, TypeScript or Python and can work across unfamiliar codebases.
• You have designed, built, debugged, and operated services on AWS and Kubernetes, including EKS or a comparable Kubernetes environment.
• You can automate infrastructure and software delivery through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and safe rollout and recovery practices.
• You can turn developer needs into secure, reliable APIs, automation, and self-service workflows, and have helped teams adopt shared capabilities.
• You have led technical work with no established approach, made architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, and aligned people without formal authority.

What they offer

• Competitive salary package and bonus.
• Hybrid work model with three days on-site per week; 30 days vacation annually.
• Work from abroad for 10 days per year.
• Relocation support and visa assistance.
• Dedicated learning time, online courses, and structured career development.
• Subsidized public transport or job bikes; company pension scheme with subsidy.