Backend Engineering Teamlead – AI, KotlinLead a strong backend team. Shape the architecture. Stay hands-on. And bring AI into engineering where it can make a real difference.Looking for a Team Lead role where you do more than distribute tickets and run meetings?This could be the role for you.Our client is an established, internationally focused digital company with around 350 employees and millions of users. What started as an e-commerce business has evolved into a diverse digital platform with ambitious products, significant reach, and complex technical challenges.It’s an environment where the stability of a successful company meets the pace of a modern tech organisation. New products are being developed, business models are evolving, and new technologies are being explored to shape the digital business of tomorrow.And this is where you get real room to make an impact.You’ll lead a product-focused backend team, work with your engineers on key architectural decisions, and remain close to the technology yourself. You’ll have the opportunity to set engineering standards, influence technical direction, and introduce AI-powered engineering practices where they create genuine value.What you’ll be doingTechnical leadership with real influence: Lead and develop a product-focused backend engineering team and create an environment where engineers can take ownership and do their best work.Shape the architecture: Work with your team to design and evolve the architecture of core B2B platform services.Stay hands-on: Continue writing code and work alongside your team to solve complex technical challenges.End-to-end ownership: Following a “you build it, you run it” approach, your team owns its microservices from development through to production.Build for scale: Develop secure, maintainable and highly scalable solutions that reliably serve millions of users.Collaborate across teams: Align APIs, interfaces and architectural decisions with other engineering teams while working closely with Product Management and key stakeholders.Drive AI adoption in engineering: Introduce AI-assisted development and new engineering approaches to the team in a pragmatic way, with a focus on tangible value.What you bringExperience leading and developing engineering teamsAn empowering leadership style based on trust and ownership rather than micromanagementStrong experience with Kotlin and Spring BootExperience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQLSolid experience with microservices, Kubernetes and production systemsExperience with REST APIs and event-driven architectures, ideally KafkaA genuine interest in shaping technical decisions while developing and supporting the people around youAn interest in AI-assisted software development; experience with agentic AI practices is a plusWhat’s in it for you30 days of annual leave plus unlimited additional time offHybrid working and workation opportunities – typically just 3 days per quarter in the Hamburg office, with travel expenses covered€1,500 annual learning and development budget€30 monthly mobility allowance plus bike leasingCompany pension schemeEGYM WELLPASS for a €25 monthly employee contributionA high level of trust, autonomy and freedom to make decisionsAn environment where good technical ideas don’t need to pass through five layers of hierarchy before something happensA leadership role for engineers who want to build, influence and make a difference.If you enjoy developing people while shaping technology, this isn’t a role where you have to choose between leadership and engineering.You get both: team responsibility, architectural ownership and the opportunity to stay genuinely hands-on.And if you’re excited about exploring how AI can change the way engineering teams work, you’ll have the freedom and space to make that happen.

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