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 efficiency, reliability, and operational maturity
- This role reports directly to CEO & CPTO
Must have skills:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on
- 3+ years of GoLang experience
- 3+ years experience with AWS in production environments
- Strong code quality bar and experience with architectural reviews
- Ability to context-switch between technical topics and people leadership
- Strong execution mindset and comfort operating under ambiguity
- Hands-on coding mentality; can build things from scratch including security architecture yourself
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized workloads
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience with monitoring, logging, observability (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
- Experience with Coding CoPilots (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, AWS CodeWhisperer, Codex, etc.)
- Knowledge of Experience supporting production SaaS platforms
- High ownership mentality, startup mindset, and ability to move quickly
- Experience in startup or scale-up environments
- Low ego, high commitment, and a true tech startup mentality
- Excellent English communication skills
Nice-to-have requirements:
- Previous experience as a founding or early-stage Engineering Manager
- Experience in cybersecurity , identity, or enterprise SaaS platforms
- Exposure to DevOps, SRE, or data engineering
- Experience scaling teams and systems simultaneously
- Experience with security architecture, identity security, or security engineering
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
- Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, API tokens, IdP, scopes, SSO, SCIM, roles, RBAC/ABAC, service accounts
- Familiarity with cloud identity and security controls (e.g. IAM, CloudTrail, Azure Active Directory / Entra ID )
- Hands-on with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Experience designing permission models, identity graphs, or access control frameworks
- Knowledge of tokenization, Zero Trust principles , least privilege, and continuous verification
- Experience with Security related to AI/LLM systems, agent logic, or willingness to learn fast
- Familiarity with AI agent behavior , LLM security, or agent sandboxing
- Previous experience in cybersecurity , identity startups
- You are a fan of rock or metal music
- Excellent German communication skills
Benefits:
- Founding Team Member Equity — ESOPs in a well funded cybersecurity company.
- Competitive Compensation — salary aligned with market, flexible early-stage arrangements possible.
- Founding Team Member Status — shape the company from day one and own critical security technical decisions.
- Fresh Funding Secured — immediate runway to build, hire, and execute fast.
- Security Contribution — contribute to security tech architecture across identity, AI agents, and enforcement.
- High Autonomy — freedom to design and build without corporate overhead.
- Work with a Technical CEO and CPTO — fast iteration, strong alignment, clear direction.
- Cutting-Edge Domain — identity security, SaaS-to-SaaS access, AI agent governance.
- Massive Learning Curve — quickly gain depth in cybersecurity, identity, and AI systems.
- Fast Career Path — opportunity evolve into higher leadership as we scale the engineering team
- Berlin Location — top-tier tech environment with strong cybersecurity and AI ecosystems.
- Direct Impact — your architecture and code become the foundation of the entire platform.
- Best Equipment and Tools - High quality equipment and modern tools to help you do your best work from day one.
- Team Offsites - Regular team offsites designed to build strong connections, alignment, and shared momentum.
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