Lead Software Engineer - Consumer Platforms

Workgenius Group — Germany · Posted ~22 hours ago

Lead Full-time Hybrid

Skills

Technical Leadership Software Architecture Mobile/Web Applications Backend Services Cloud Infrastructure Data Engineering Team Leadership System Design Scalability Reliability Engineering Observability UAV/Embedded Systems Integration Mobile (iOS/Android) Web (React/TypeScript) Backend (Go/Python/Node.js) Cloud (AWS/GCP) Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL Redis Kafka gRPC REST Terraform CI/CD Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll own the technical vision and delivery of consumer-facing applications and digital platforms. You'll architect end-to-end systems spanning mobile/web frontends, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines — with unique integration requirements for UAV and operational hardware. This is a hands-on leadership role in an early-stage environment where you'll guide a team of engineers, align technical stakeholders, and set high standards for scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability. You'll establish architectural principles, drive pragmatic execution, and champion engineering excellence across the full stack. Significant autonomy to shape technology choices and team culture.

Highlights

Own technical direction for consumer-facing applications and digital platforms. End-to-end architecture ownership across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and data. Hands-on leadership in early-stage environment. Integration with UAV and operational systems. High autonomy and impact. Set engineering standards for quality and maintainability.

Description

Role Overview As a Software Lead, you will own the technical direction and delivery of our consumer-facing applications and digital platforms. You will lead the design and evolution of the end-to-end architecture spanning mobile/web apps, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and data flows, while ensuring seamless integration with UAV and operational systems.You will guide a team of engineers, align multiple technical stakeholders, and remain hands-on—driving pragmatic execution in an early-stage environment and setting high standards for quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Your Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture.Establish architectural principles and guardrails that ensure scalability, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability across the stack.Lead architectural alignment across teams (application, platform, cloud, embedded), ensuring consistent decisions, clean interfaces, and long-term coherence.Champion engineering excellence through code quality standards, CI/CD discipline, robust testing strategies, and operational readiness (monitoring, incident response, runbooks) Required Qualifications Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.7+ years of experience in software engineering, including system design/architecture and delivery of application platforms (backend services, cloud infrastructure, and user-facing systems).Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership role (e.g., Software Lead, Tech Lead, Engineering Lead)—guiding engineers, setting direction, and owning outcomes.Strong hands-on experience with modern backend and frontend technologies, such as:Python (FastAPI or similar), TypeScript (React, Angular, Svelte or similar), Java (Spring Boot or similar)Should be able to decide what Hardware to chooseFluency in EnglishExperience in Automotive, logistics, mobility, robotics, UAV or aerospace-adjacent domains. Nice to have German language is a plus not mandatory.Familiarity with aviation standards such as DO-178C or ARP4754A (beneficial but not required).Embedded or real-time experience is a plus