Founding Engineering Team Lead (HandsOn)

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 Dir