Development Lead (m/w/d) – Services & Modules (Cloud Native)

Your tasks

As a Development Lead, you take on the technical and functional leadership of an agile development team that builds innovative, cloud-native services and modules for our connectivity and alerting platforms. You are responsible for the architecture, implementation, and continuous enhancement of modern, scalable backend and frontend solutions, ensuring smooth operations and ongoing improvement of our services. In this role, you collaborate closely with Product Management, QA, the Operations team, and other key stakeholders.

Your responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and coaching to a cross-functional development team, fostering innovation and continuous improvement
• Own the architecture, code quality, and technical roadmap with a strong focus on cloud-native principles and microservice architectures (e.g., Node.js, TypeScript, containerization, orchestration)
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards while promoting Security by Design (e.g., secure coding, threat modeling, zero trust)
• Work closely with QA, Site Reliability Engineers, and other teams to optimize test automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response
• Take responsibility for technical decision-making, selecting and integrating new cloud technologies, and acting as a key interface to Product Management and senior leadership

You

• have several years of experience in software development (full stack, backend, or frontend) as well as in a technical lead or senior developer role.
• bring strong expertise in modern web technologies (Node.js, TypeScript, SvelteKit, Vite, MongoDB, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0).
• have experience with modern architectural and design principles (microservices, API design, OpenAPI, cloud security) and in collaborating with Site Reliability Engineers.
• demonstrate strong communication and teamwork skills, a leadership mindset, and a passion for coaching and mentoring.
• have excellent English and German language skills.