Engineering Team Lead (all genders)

The role

You will combine technical and people leadership to lead a team of 4–10 engineers. You will set technical direction, coach engineers, and contribute hands-on to code and architecture.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction and architecture for your team's domain
• Build a high-performing engineering culture
• Ensure the team builds, ships, and operates high-quality and reliable software
• Make pragmatic judgment calls across product delivery, technical debt, and reliability
• Stay close to the code and contribute hands-on to architecture, code reviews, and incident response
• Remove blockers and drive decisions
• Collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top-tier university, or an equivalent track record of technical excellence
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• 3+ years of experience leading and developing software engineers and providing technical direction to a team
• Strong software engineering fundamentals across system design, architecture, code quality, testing, and reliability
• Experience making architectural and technical decisions for complex software products
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make effective decisions in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information
• High degree of ownership and drive, with a bias toward action and getting things done
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with a strong focus on outcomes
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Full-Stack experience or the ability to confidently operate across Frontend and Backend
• German is a plus

Benefits

• Variety in your tasks and the opportunity to take ownership
• International, informal team structure in a motivating start-up atmosphere
• Hands-on experience in a startup backed by leading international VCs
• Support for your personal development through continuous learning and feedback
• Flexible working hours and trust-based time tracking
• A virtual stock option package (VSOP)
• Monthly meal allowance up to 75 euros
• Full coverage of the Deutschlandticket, Urban Sports Club or a subsidized Wellpass membership
• A bike leasing program
• Corporate Benefits with access to discounts

About the company

Avelios has built a modular software platform that digitizes and optimizes workflows in hospitals. Their mission is to unlock clinical data to power seamless healthcare operations for better patient care.