Tech Lead - Craftnote

The role

You will lead a squad of 3-4 engineers and own the technical direction of Craftnote's systems. You will shape system design, plan delivery with Product, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Own system design for an event-driven, component-based architecture.
• Document decisions with ADRs and run architecture work with the team.
• Plan and run delivery with Product.
• Run 1:1s, give feedback, and support career development and team health.
• Mentor and upskill engineers.
• Look after reliability and quality including CI/CD, test automation, observability, and incident response.
• Lead agentic and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Apply AI/ML methods to business and engineering problems.
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives and keep stakeholders in the loop.

Required qualifications

• Track record of building and shipping production software (usually 9+ years).
• Experience leading a team and growing people.
• Degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep full-stack experience across backend, web, mobile and analytics.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration.
• Experience with NoSQL and relational data modelling.
• Experience with data modelling and ETL pipelines (e.g. BigQuery).
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, Azure or AWS) and containerization.
• Fluent German and English, written and spoken.
• Experience with agile delivery frameworks.

Nice to have

• Node.js / TypeScript
• Terraform / Pulumi

About the company

Aceve builds digital tools for people who construct and maintain the physical world. They are an AI-first company with over 900 employees across 8 countries.