🚀 Senior Engineering Lead (d/f/m) - Automotive B2B Tool

This is an excellent opportunity to join one of our User Journey cluster at mobile.de . We are looking for a strong and experienced Tech Lead to team up with a small and senior team (Business, Product, Customer Service, Sales) in Berlin and a motivated and skilled off-shore tech team to maintain and develop an existing product further to the demands of our market and dealers.

What you’ll do

• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions - Own the technical roadmap for customer-facing applications, ensuring scalable and pragmatic solutions align with business objectives

• Bridge technical and business stakeholders - Translate business requirements into technical specifications and communicate technical constraints and opportunities to product, UX, and business teams

• Oversee the complete development lifecycle - From initial specification through production deployment, ensuring quality gates, timelines, and deliverables are met across distributed teams

• Establish and enforce engineering standards - Define coding practices, review processes, and technical guidelines for both local and offshore teams to maintain code quality and security

• Manage stakeholder relationships - Act as the primary technical contact for product owners, business stakeholders, and leadership, providing regular updates on progress and technical decisions

• Lead and manage our offshore development team - Provide technical direction and ensure delivery quality while working across time zones (+3/4 hours)

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives - Identify opportunities for process optimization, tooling improvements, and technical debt reduction to enhance team productivity and product quality

Who you are

• Senior Engineer with 5+ years experience and tech leadership experience

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Serverless Stack: Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Monitoring, FinOps, Cloud SQL, Firestore

• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, Next.js + Flutter would be a strong plus

• Experience in managing and performance evaluation of external developers

• Cloud Native architecture knowledge, particularly Serverless Architectures

• Can-do attitude and willingness to take ownership of pragmatic technical decisions with minimal guidance and involvement from the rest of the P&T team

• AI Fluency:

  • Strategic Implementation: Ability to evaluate and integrate AI tools (coding assistants, automated testing, deployment optimization) into development workflows while maintaining code quality and security standards

  • Team Leadership: Guide technical decisions around AI adoption, establish best practices for AI-assisted development, and mentor team members in responsible AI usage

  • Risk Assessment: Understand capabilities, limitations, and potential pitfalls of AI tools, ensuring appropriate human oversight and dependency management

• Fluent English and good German language skills (B2 or better)

• Willingness to travel occasionally to our potential new outsourcing partner and work with a team in a different time zone (+3/4 hours)