Founding Engineering Team Lead (HandsOn)

At TechBiz Global, we are providing recruitment service to our TOP clients from our portfolio. We are currently seeking a Founding Engineering Team Lead to join one of our clients' team in Berlin. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to grow in a innovative environment, this could be the perfect fit for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a small, high-performing engineering team while remaining hands-on

• Design, build, and review production backend and platform code alongside the team

• Own delivery of the engineering roadmap, balancing speed, quality, and security

• Act as a technical leader by setting architecture direction and enforcing engineering standards

• Contribute directly to critical features, integrations, and platform foundations

• Establish lightweight engineering processes that enable fast execution without bureaucracy

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

• Contribute hands-on in design and build architecture, configure systems, code 70% of the time in GoLang.

• Remove blockers and unblock delivery across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps

• Collaborate closely with CEO, CPTO, and product leadership on technical and execution decisions

• Support hiring, onboarding, and technical evaluation of engineers

• Foster a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and low ego

• Build whole Security platform setup from scratch

• Partner closely with backend and AI engineers to design secure service boundaries and deployment models

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents across infrastructure, networking, and application layers

• Build PoCs and validate infrastructure and security design decisions in an early-stage environment

• Support compliance readiness by enabling controls, logging, and evidence collection for security frameworks

• Continuously improve platform cost ef