Platfrom Lead

**About us**:
Opinary is a Berlin-based startup revolutionizing audience engagement in the digital landscape. Through our platform, we empower publishers and brands to collect and analyze real-time opinions from millions of users worldwide. By seamlessly integrating interactive polls across the open web, Opinary sparks meaningful conversations, drives user participation, and helps our partners to better understand their audiences. Join us as Platform Lead on our next exciting chapter where we’re taking Opinary to new markets and expand our services and client universe internationally.

Tasks

**Your responsibilities**:

- Line manager for all platform engineers (currently 2)
- You establish processes to setup standards across chapters, reduce tech-debt and work towards a chapter vision
- You wear many hats and act as an engineer and system architect when needed
- You ensure overall system stability
- Responsible for all server and license budgets
- You develop software in a compliant and rigorous way, whilst maximizing the value add to our stakeholders: users, brands & publishers.
- You take ownership of the existing codebase and proactively work on improving the stability of it.
- You maintain and monitor the live system, and you are responsible for the swift recovery in case of issues.
- You design and implement new services that support the needs of the stakeholders.
- You enhance our technology stack and lead the implementation of platforms both as well as the systems infrastructure of our product
- You collaborate with our Product Lead to refine the product-market fit
- You work in a close and trustful relationship with the founders, product and sales teams in a cross-discipline agile environment

**Requirements**:
**Your profile**:

- You had the chance to work in a team on a live project for at least three years as a Software Engineer.
- You had experience with GoLang or Python and have worked with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- You are expert in modern processes like Gitflow, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code
- You understand the publisher and advertiser ecosystem
- You value coding as your craft and understand that writing software is about solving technical problems - but equally important, something to be maintained and understood by your peers.
- You enjoy pair-programming with your colleagues.
- You had the opportunity to debug a live service, on live traffic, with live users.
- You are a servant leader and believe in empowerment, you take responsibility and don't say: that's not my job
- You approach the problems holistically, and you can make tradeoffs based on data.
- You’re proactive and curious: always eager to learn new things and happy to share your knowledge with others.

**Benefits**:
**What we offer**:

- a modern tech-stack: Python, Golang, GCP, Docker, Terraform, MySQL, Redis, BigQuery, AirFlow, React, TypeScript
- a crowd of passionate and smart people from different personal & professional backgrounds, that foster open discussions, fun and a strong feedback-culture.
- growth and continuous learning: everyone at Opinary is encouraged to trust in experiments and to grow - including a generous learning budget
- a flexible working environment. Choose your working hours, work-from-home or from our beautiful office in the middle of Berlin.