Team Lead Engineering (f/m/d)

About the role

As Team & Tech Lead, you’ll combine people leadership with hands‑on engineering. You’ll build and grow your own engineering team, shape the technical direction and stay close to the code. You’ll also play a key role in embedding AI and automation into engineering workflows while collaborating closely with teams across locations.

Key responsibilities

• Build and grow your own engineering team, including hiring key technical roles.
• Lead, mentor and develop engineers, including performance management, feedback and professional growth.
• Define and drive technical direction, architecture and engineering standards.
• Stay hands‑on by writing code, contributing to features and solving complex technical challenges.
• Drive the adoption of AI and automation across engineering workflows, including AI‑assisted development and AI agents.
• Work closely with Product and UX to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Ensure reliable delivery through a “you build it, you run it” approach.
• Drive technical alignment and collaboration across engineering teams and locations.
• Balance technical quality and ambition with pragmatic, fast delivery.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, ideally in a cross‑functional environment.
• Strong, recent hands‑on experience with Next.js, TypeScript and HTML5/CSS3.
• Practical experience using AI in software engineering, including building or implementing AI agents and automation.
• Experience deploying, monitoring and maintaining web applications.
• Experience working in e‑commerce environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong organisational, prioritisation and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, ownership‑driven approach with strong communication skills.

Required skills

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• HTML5
• CSS3
• AI

What we offer

• International working environment where ideas have real impact.
• Talented, supportive team with ownership opportunities.
• €1,500 annual development budget for personal and professional growth.
• High trust and autonomy, unlimited vacation days plus a 30‑day yearly allowance.
• Option to work temporarily from abroad via the WorkFlex platform.