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About the role
- Engineering Team Lead driving technical excellence for BARFER'S e-commerce platform. Leading a product engineering team while remaining hands-on in development and coding efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead our product engineering team and drive technical excellence across our e-commerce platform
- Manage a team of 2 engineers while remaining deeply involved in code — architecting solutions, reviewing pull requests, and shipping production features yourself
- Establish engineering standards, organize sprints, manage our cloud infrastructure, and ensure we deliver bug-free, high-quality software
- Pioneer AI-augmented development workflows, integrating tools like Claude Code into our daily engineering practices to maximize team velocity and code quality
- Report directly to the CTO and play a critical role in scaling our Shopify-integrated platform, improving system reliability, and building a high-performance engineering culture
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years in engineering leadership roles (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
- Proven track record of managing and mentoring engineers
- Experience building and scaling platforms (e-commerce / Shopify experience a plus)
- Strong Knowledge of: TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
- React / React Native core concepts (Hooks, Context API, State Management)
- Node.js backend development
- REST and GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Shopify APIs (Storefront, Admin, Hydrogen) — preferred
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — compute, storage, networking
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Bitrise, or similar)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) — preferred
- Monitoring and observability (Sentry, Grafana, or similar)
- Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes basics)
- Unit testing (Jest, Vitest)
- E2E testing (Playwright, Detox, Cypress)
- Code review best practices
- Git workflows (trunk-based development, feature branches)
Benefits
- 30 days of annual vacation — and best of all: you get your birthday off!
- A €50 monthly BARFER’S card to treat yourself to whatever you like
- Discounts for the Deutschlandticket , JobRad , and more
- Bring your dog to work!
- A modern work environment in Berlin with the option to work remotely
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