Hybrid Engineering Team Lead

at BARFER’S

• Job title: Engineering Team Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Cypress, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, GraphQL, JavaScript, Jest, Kubernetes, Node.js, React, React Native, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Engineering Team Lead managing a product engineering team and enhancing BARFER’S e-commerce platform with AI development tools. Leading technical excellence while contributing to code quality and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
• Hands-On Development: Actively contribute to the codebase — write production code, build features, and fix critical bugs alongside your team.
• Architecture & Code Quality: Design and implement clean, maintainable, and scalable solutions using TypeScript and React, following modern best practices.
• Code Reviews: Conduct thorough PR reviews to ensure code quality, security, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Quality Ownership: Take responsibility for bug-free software delivery through robust testing strategies, code review processes, and quality gates.
• Team Management, Lead & Mentor: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 2 engineers — provide technical guidance, conduct 1:1s, and support career development.
• Sprint Organization: Plan and run sprints, manage backlog prioritization, and ensure timely delivery of initiatives.
• Engineering Guidelines: Establish and document coding standards, PR review guidelines, testing requirements, and development workflows.
• Infrastructure Management: Own and manage cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud), including deployment pipelines, monitoring, and system reliability.
• CI/CD Excellence: Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, linting, and deployment.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Implement alerting, logging, and observability to ensure production stability and fast incident response.
• AI Workflow Integration: Lead the adoption of AI coding assistants (Claude Code) into engineering workflows.
• Prompt Engineering: Develop effective prompts, agents, skills, MCPs, configurations, and AI-assisted development patterns for the team.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Customer Success teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years in engineering leadership roles (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
• Proven track record of managing and mentoring engineers
• Experience building and scaling platforms (e-commerce / Shopify experience a plus)
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• React / React Native core concepts (Hooks, Context API, State Management)
• Node.js backend development
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• Shopify APIs (Storefront, Admin, Hydrogen) — preferred
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — compute, storage, networking
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Bitrise, or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) — preferred
• Monitoring and observability (Sentry, Grafana, or similar)
• Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes basics)
• Unit testing (Jest, Vitest)
• E2E testing (Playwright, Detox, Cypress)
• Code review best practices
• Git workflows (trunk-based development, feature branches)
• Hands-on experience integrating AI coding assistants into development workflows
• Experience with Claude Code, agentic coding workflows, or similar AI-augmented development practices
• Familiarity with prompt & agentic engineering and AI-assisted code review
• Enthusiasm for exploring and adopting emerging AI development tools

Benefits

• 30 days of annual vacation — and best of all: you get your birthday off!
• A €50 monthly BARFER’S card to treat yourself to whatever you like
• Discounts for the Deutschlandticket, JobRad, and more
• Bring your dog to work!