Team Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Hygraph, a Berlin-based startup, as a Hands-On Engineering Team Lead. You will guide the engineering team while actively contributing to technical development, blending leadership, mentorship, and hands-on technical work. Collaborate with stakeholders, participate in coding and architecture decisions, drive technical excellence, and mentor engineers. You will work on strategy and execution, delivering high-quality solutions and contributing to internal Engineering Guilds. This role offers opportunities for individual growth and impact on the product and engineering practices. Hygraph is a remote-first company with a globally distributed team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on full-stack development experience, ideally using JS/TS and React
• 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role, covering people and delivery management
• Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable
• Experience developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST
• Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership but also ask for help and advice when needed
• Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization
• Experience driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to prioritize and plan projects that add real value to our users
• Actively participate in coding, debugging, and system architecture decisions, identify architectural improvements, prioritize, and act on them
• Drive technical excellence through best practices, code reviews, and design discussions
• Work with the team on strategy and execution, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions
• Help engineers identify and grow in their areas of interest by coaching, mentoring, and giving timely feedback
• Participate as part of internal Engineering Guilds to identify architectural improvements and prioritize and act on them
• Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GraphQL, Golang, Docker, and containerized applications
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
• Experience with web performance monitoring

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible hours
• Yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences