Tech Lead
We're seeking a highly hands-on Tech Lead who thrives on building, solving complex technical challenges, and directly shaping innovative digital and AI-driven solutions. You'll lead by doing, taking full ownership of technical decisions from concept to market validation, and mentoring a small, agile team.
Job Description
We are Berlin Bytes.
We are young and creative, we value diversity and freedom of expression — you’ve probably heard it from every single Berlin based digital agency though.
What makes us different?
The way we collaborate with each other and our partners. Since we offer full-cycle digital services (from Consulting/Research, UX/UI Design, Web Development to Marketing and Product Ownership) to our clients, we approach each job as our own in-house project.
What can you expect?
You can expect to deep dive into a great number of industries — our spectrum of clients ranges from upcoming Berlin Fashion Start-Ups to large Industrials. This allows us to provide you with a great diversity of projects that matches your skills and aspirations.
What you will be doing
This is a role for someone who feels at home in a client environment, makes pragmatic technical decisions with confidence, and leads by doing.
- Own technical delivery end to end: You will take responsibility for technical decisions, architecture, implementation quality, and delivery outcomes across client projects.
- Stay hands-on in the codebase: This is not a pure leadership role. You will actively build software, contribute directly to production code, and help shape solutions from the ground up.
- Work closely with clients: You will participate in client meetings, workshops, and technical discussions to understand business needs, translate them into technical requirements, and propose pragmatic solutions.
- Lead with autonomy: You will act as a technical lead in different project settings, guiding engineers, unblocking challenges, and helping the team move quickly and effectively.
- Balance engineering, architecture, and delivery: Depending on the project and phase, your focus may lean more toward solution architecture, delivery leadership, technical consulting, or hands-on implementation, but always with direct ownership of the technical outcome.
- Raise the technical bar: You will contribute to code quality, maintainability, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Explore modern technologies: You will evaluate and apply new technologies where they create real value, including AI-related use cases when relevant.
We need you to have
Must-Have’s
- German at C2 level
- Experience in an agency, consultancy, or client-project environment
- Previous experience as a Tech Lead or in a comparable autonomous technical leadership role
- Strong hands-on fullstack development skills
- Ability to take technical ownership and work independently
- Confident communication with clients and cross-functional teams
- Fluency in English
Strong advantage
- Strong backend experience with scalable APIs and data modeling
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte, or Angular
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and CI/CD
- Knowledge of authentication and security concepts such as OIDC
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into software products
Selected Nice-to-Have’s
- Mobile development experience
- Infrastructure as Code experience such as Terraform or CDK
- Experience in rapid prototyping or innovation-driven projects
Benefits & Perks
Office located directly at Backfabrik
Home Office: We are a team and value the personal face-to-face interaction. Therefore, we expect our team to come into our office around 2–3 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!
Pet friendly office.
Urban Sports Club membership partial coverage.
Subsidised BVG job ticket.
Mental Health counselling system.
Company Pension scheme.
The usual perks
New MacBook Pro M1, Double 4k Screen Setup.
Company Day and Party once a quarter.
Coffee option optimized for quantity and quality.
Team BBQ/dinners every two weeks. We love eating together!
*Please note, while we do appreciate the time and effort you have invested into applying for our position, we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates due to the sheer volume of applications. If you do not hear from us within 21 days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding.
Do you think you could be a good fit for the role? Then feel free to apply!
Wie es funktioniert
Kurzer
Vibe-Check
Just a talk when we are going to tell a bit more on details who we are and what is the roll while learning your career aspiration.
Tech/Design
Challenge
Depending on a role we are going to provide you with a case study which you solve and present to your future team mates.
Final Interview
Deep dive into the role and expectations from both side.
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