Lead Engineer (x/f/m)

We are Flightright! Every day we enforce your right to reimbursement and compensation for flight delays and cancellations! Our team is characterized by a strong hands-on mentality and the desire to constantly improve. We always find the best solution for our customers and work hard to enforce even the most difficult cases. Constant knowledge sharing, regular feedback and respectful interaction with each other enable us to achieve common goals.
 
We are looking for a Lead Engineer (x/f/m)- Limited contract to head a new user-centric, cross-business product development team in Berlin/remote to helps us bring Flightright to the next level in regards of customer-lifetime driven growth. The contract is limited to 12 month.

• You spearhead and concept the development of a new service architecture connecting multiple business services to a
• You continuously align with business and product-owner to provide the highest possible business value related to the invested development budget
• You develop, deploy, maintain, and optimize best-practice API-services and frontend applications applying cutting edge DevOps principles
• You guide, mentor and coach a new development team together with the CTO
• You uphold agile practices resulting in lean and value contributing development cycles
• You continuously learn and stay cutting edge in regards of news, research and frameworks relevant for your mission
• You contribute your knowledge and passion to the tech-architecture circle, the complete tech-community and herald your pillar of expertise within the organization

• 7+ years productive relevant hands-on software development experience within our tech-stack:
  • React/next.js with Javascript/Typescript
  • Springboot/Java
  • Testing frameworks (Junit, cypress, selenium)
  • Gitlab/Github
  • DevOps (Terraform)
  • Relevant Cloud-Services from AWS/Azure like Lamdba/Function, RDS, IAM, etc.
  • (optional) agile Software like Jira/Confluence
  • (optional) Camunda and BPM related process-engines
• Expierience with real agile development, ideal certified SCRUM Master or ProductOwner
• Highly business value driven mindset
• (optional) XP with mentoring and/or building highly effective remote dev-teams
• English, (optional) German

• Hybrid working model – 5-day week divided into 2 days in our Berlin office on site and 3 days in the home office
• In addition to your vacation, you are entitled to workation days on which you can work 100% remotely
• Diversity is important to us! We are looking for people from all backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, beliefs, or physical needs
• You can look forward to working in a friendly, courteous and motivated team
• You can expect exciting and monthly employee events on our Culture & Value as well as joint team excursions, summer camps and workshops
• Let us subsidize your public transport ticket or your membership in the Urban Sports Club or use our bike leasing and choose your job bike 
• Feedback & recognition – special projects are honored with the APA Award every six months, performance feedback is provided regularly and tool-supported by your manager