BARFER’S

Engineering Team Lead – All Genders

BARFER’S

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Berlin • Germany

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Salary

💰 €2,450 - €2,900 per month

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudCypressDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLJavaScriptJestKubernetesNode.jsReactReact NativeTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Lead our product engineering team and drive technical excellence across our e-commerce platform
  • Manage a team of 2 engineers while remaining deeply involved in code — architecting solutions, reviewing pull requests, and shipping production features yourself
  • Establish engineering standards, organize sprints, manage our cloud infrastructure, and ensure we deliver bug-free, high-quality software
  • Pioneer AI-augmented development workflows, integrating tools like Claude Code into our daily engineering practices to maximize team velocity and code quality
  • Report directly to the CTO and play a critical role in scaling our Shopify-integrated platform, improving system reliability, and building a high-performance engineering culture

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • 3+ years in engineering leadership roles (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
  • Proven track record of managing and mentoring engineers
  • Experience building and scaling platforms (e-commerce / Shopify experience a plus)
  • Strong Knowledge of: TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
  • React / React Native core concepts (Hooks, Context API, State Management)
  • Node.js backend development
  • REST and GraphQL APIs
  • Experience with Shopify APIs (Storefront, Admin, Hydrogen) — preferred
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — compute, storage, networking
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Bitrise, or similar)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) — preferred
  • Monitoring and observability (Sentry, Grafana, or similar)
  • Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes basics)
  • Unit testing (Jest, Vitest)
  • E2E testing (Playwright, Detox, Cypress)
  • Code review best practices
  • Git workflows (trunk-based development, feature branches)
Benefits
  • 30 days of annual vacation — and best of all: you get your birthday off!
  • A €50 monthly BARFER’S card to treat yourself to whatever you like
  • Discounts for the Deutschlandticket , JobRad , and more
  • Bring your dog to work!
  • A modern work environment in Berlin with the option to work remotely
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsREST APIsGraphQL APIsShopify APIsCI/CDInfrastructure as Code
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringteam managementtechnical excellencecode reviewcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationorganizational skillsscaling platforms