Tech Lead (m/f/d)

About The Job
A11 partners with Europe’s most ambitious startups and scaleups, corporates and SMBs to connect them with top-tier talent ready to make an impact.
We're looking for an entrepreneurial Tech Lead (m/f/x) to join our latest investment to drive the development of their AI-powered SaaS products and lead their Tech Team. As a Founding Engineer, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining their core technical platform from ideation to deployment and quality assurance in a holistic way while fostering a high performance culture across Data and Engineering.
This is your chance to take the lead on the architectural, conceptual and Go-to-Market strategies at an early-stage startup that's on its way to becoming a global category leader.
Join the A11 Ecosystem: a German-based startup that’s harnessing AI technologies to improve working capital and create circular supply chains for industrial manufacturing companies.

In This Role, you’ll

• Lead the ideation, conceptualization and definition of architecture and technologies in alignment with the business strategy
• Design and build full-stack technologies while continuously pushing the AI capabilities of our portfolio company’s product
• Write code fast and scrap it even faster, knowing when to transition to building for scale and quality
• Lead customer conversations and translate insights into product features and tech strategy
• Work with the CEO and Head of Product to ensure the development and execution of the Product strategy, in alignment with the broader business strategy
• Take ultimate responsibility for the day-to-day functioning of the platform, and demo system as well as coordinating safe deployments and maintenance tasks

Typical tasks

• Evaluate critical engineering issues and take final decisions with respect the problem-solving within this area
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to ensure the platform meets the highest quality, information and cyber security requirements
• Define and control milestones, priorities and deadlines according to the product and tech roadmap
• Setup and maintain processes to guarantee structure, quality and speed / efficiency: e.g. Deployment, Scrum, Documentation

Your Profile

• 5+ years experience in back-end/full-stack engineering (B2B SaaS experience is highly desired)
• Entrepreneurial drive with a “fail fast” and learn faster mentality
• Ability to manage complex, data-driven projects, fostering collaboration across Tech and Business departments
• Capacity to collaborate with external teams with respect to third-party integrations via API or others (e.g. knowledge of main ERPs)
• Experience leading, growing and developing high performing tech teams
• Transparent, efficient and proactive communication about challenges, possible pitfalls and time constraints as well as ideas for innovative solutions
• High sense of ownership - you're eager to take on everything from conception to deployment
• Enjoy talking to customers and iterating based on feedback
• You've worked with Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Python, Terraform Neo4j, Langchain and RAG, AWS, React, Typescript, Node.JS
• Strong communications in English. German is advantageous
• Experience as a Tech Entrepreneur or Technical Co-founder will be highly regarded
• Experience in manufacturing or supply chain industries is a plus

Please note that this position is based in Mannheim or Berlin, Germany.
If you’re eager to join the A11 Ecosystem and shape what’s next, we want to hear from you!

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
A11 is committed to diverse and equal opportunities hiring for all – applicants, candidates, and employees alike. We value humans – with all our glorious multifaceted backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences – and look forward to your application.