Team Lead (m/f/d) Tech

Why The Mobility House?

• Take responsibility and join us in building an emission-free world of energy and mobility.
• Look forward to exciting tasks, plenty of scope to shape your work, and endless opportunities to grow beyond your current limits.
• Join an open, diverse, and international team that brings together a wide range of perspectives.
• Work or life? Have both! Flexible working hours, half a day off on both 24.12. and 31.12., and mobile work options ensure maximum flexibility. And for a change of scenery: up to 20 days of mobile work from other European countries per year.
• Family comes first: If your child falls ill, you get up to 15 days of leave per year with full pay.
• Choose between modern Apple or Dell equipment.
• We subsidize your "Deutschlandticket" (Germany-wide transit pass) to make your commute easier.
• We support your health and well-being through Wellpass, our work-life portal, and various other sports and wellness offers.
• Plan for the future with peace of mind thanks to our company pension scheme.
• After your probationary period, you can lease your dream car via FINN or your dream bike via JobRad.
• An office where you’ll feel right at home: modern, well-connected, and dog-friendly-you’re welcome to bring your four-legged friend along.

What you do

• Lead and develop a team of seven software engineers through regular feedback, coaching, career development, and inclusive leadership.
• Stay hands-on by contributing to software development, technical investigations, solution design, code reviews, and incident analysis.
• Guide the team in building and operating reliable software across industrial Raspberry Pi-based edge devices and AWS services.
• Help the team establish strong practices for coding, testing, automation, documentation, monitoring, and production operations.
• Collaborate closely with the team’s Product Owner to translate business needs into clear priorities and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Improve the team’s way of working together with the Scrum Master and other team leads. This includes improving planning, prioritization, ownership, decision-making, quality, and follow-through.
• Help the team move from reactive incident handling toward prevention, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Reduce unnecessary dependencies and handoffs, and strengthen collaboration with product teams, operations, systems engineers, and architects.
• Support the team in making transparent, timely technical decisions while balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Identify technical risks and technical debt, and ensure they are considered in planning and prioritization.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team development.

Who you are

• You are an experienced software engineer who enjoys remaining technically engaged and contributing hands-on.
• You have experience leading, mentoring, or developing software engineers. Formal people-management experience is a must; equivalent leadership experience gained through technical leadership, mentoring, or project ownership is also welcome.
• You have practical experience with several of the following: Linux-based systems, edge devices, AWS and cloud-based systems, Infrastructure as code, production operations, monitoring, and incident response, Python, Event-based messaging patterns and distributed systems.
• You are comfortable understanding systems across the edge-to-cloud landscape and connecting device constraints with reliable, maintainable cloud solutions.
• You can set direction and boundaries while giving people room to solve problems independently.
• You communicate clearly, listen actively, and can facilitate healthy technical debate and decisive outcomes.
• You are committed to inclusive leadership, candid feedback, and continuous learning.
• You are pragmatic and able to balance speed, quality, technical risk, and long-term value.
• You are motivated to help a team become more capable, autonomous, and sustainable.