Tech Lead

A hands-on leadership role where you'll spend roughly half your time designing and building software and the other half enabling your team to perform at its best. Lead a team of 3-4 engineers and own the tech for a part of Superchat's product.

What you'll do

• Spend approximately 50% of your time contributing directly to architecture, development, code reviews, and important technical projects.
• Lead a team of 3-4 engineers and take responsibility for its effectiveness, technical quality, and delivery.
• Work closely with your Product Manager to understand customer problems, shape solutions, scope projects, and set priorities.
• Establish clear technical direction while enabling engineers to own decisions and develop their judgment.
• Run regular 1:1s, give actionable feedback, and support each engineer's development and performance.
• Remove blockers, manage dependencies, and help the team identify delivery risks early.
• Improve engineering practices and explore effective uses of AI throughout the software-development lifecycle.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of experience as a Senior or Staff Engineer with deep involvement in software development.
• Substantial experience with Java or another JVM language.
• Experience in a hybrid Tech Lead role, Engineering manager role, or first steps in people leadership after successfully owning projects and architecture.
• Ability to turn product goals into reality and drive velocity in fast-paced startups.
• Strong at explaining complex technical things to Engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Already using AI in your development workflow and eager to explore how it can improve engineering speed and quality.

Nice to have

• Kotlin and AWS experience, since our backend runs on Kotlin/Quarkus.

What they offer

• Choose between an Urban Sports Club/John Reed membership or a public transport/Dance subscription
• Annual personal development budget of €500 for conferences, courses, books, and career coaching
• Regular company and team events
• Beautiful office in Berlin (Prenzlauer Allee 242) with free snacks, drinks, and top-notch equipment
• Hybrid work setup with two work-from-home days as standard