Engineering Lead

**About the Job**:
**Location**: Berlin (hybrid, 3 office days per week)
**Languages**: Fluent in English
**Experience Level**: 8-12 years in software engineering, with at least 2-3 years leading or mentoring technical teams

**About marta**
At marta, we build technology that makes high-quality home care accessible, transparent, and human. Our platform connects families and caregivers across Europe, creating trust, dignity, and simplicity in one of the most essential industries: elderly care.
After establishing ourselves as the technological leader in the live-in care market, we are now entering the next growth phase — scaling our product and engineering organization to deliver greater speed, stability, and impact. Our goal is clear: to set the new standard for technology in elderly care.

**Your Role in our team**:
You are the technical owner of marta’s platform. You lead by guiding architectural decisions, ensuring the team delivers high-quality features fast and reliably, and by contributing to the production of code yourself.
Together with the Product Lead, you will form the core of marta’s product & engineering leadership — translating business problems into scalable, maintainable, and tested software.

**Key Responsibilities**

**1. Hands-On Engineering & Architecture**

- Own marta’s architecture end-to-end: keep the system simple, stable, and scalable across 9 microservices and 5+ apps.
- Drive pragmatic improvements (e.g. consolidation into a monorepo, shared library refactoring, dependency documentation).
- Ensure test discipline and CI/CD standards: no merges without coverage, no undefined tickets entering sprints.
- Monitor system performance, ensure load-testing, and maintain a strong operational foundation. Code daily — design, implement, and review core features across backend and frontend.

**2. Delivery & Team Execution**

- Partner closely with Product to define sprint goals, ensure clarity, and deliver predictably.
- Review pull requests, maintain technical documentation, and ensure consistent code quality across the team.
- Balance speed and quality — make trade-offs explicit and data-driven.
- Track key engineering KPIs (bug rate, rework %, automation coverage) and drive continuous improvement.

**3. Leadership by Doing**

- Lead a small team of full-stack and product engineers by example — mentor through code, not hierarchy.
- Provide technical guidance, unblock teammates, and promote ownership in specific system areas (invoicing, matching, care onboarding, etc.).
- Build psychological safety and trust in a lean engineering culture: focus, clarity, and accountability.
- Work directly with founders to align tech decisions with business goals.

**4. Automation & AI Integration**

- Collaborate with Product to embed agentic and AI-powered capabilities — both in our workflow (for faster delivery) and within the product (to automate operational tasks).
- Use AI to accelerate testing, documentation, and rapid prototyping. Continuously evaluate modern tooling that increases development speed without compromising maintainability.

**5. Security, Reliability & Compliance**

- Own system security and compliance — ensuring audit readiness and GDPR alignment.
- Close operational gaps and formalize disaster recovery procedures.
- Foster a culture of reliability: proactive monitoring, incident documentation, and zero tolerance for untested hotfixes.

**Your Profile**:

- 8-12 years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally with previous responsibility for leading or mentoring technical teams (i.e. Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering or similar)
- Proven ability to own complex codebases and ship high-quality products from concept to production.
- Strong skills in TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
- Solid understanding of backend technologies: Express.js, TypeORM, and PostgreSQL; familiarity with dependency injection (TypeDI).
- Hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, S3, SNS/SQS, etc.), Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and scalable microservice deployment.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Nice-to-have: Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) for microservices
- A pragmatic mindset: you value technical simplicity, fast iteration, and business impact over theoretical perfection.
- Comfortable working in a lean, fast-moving setup with high ownership and mínimal hierarchy.
- Skilled at balancing hands-on development with guiding engineering direction and enabling others to do their best work.
- Excellent communicator in English, able to connect clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

**Why marta?**:

- A mission with societal impact — redefining home care across Europe.

- A small, high-talent team that values ownership, clarity, and execution.

- The freedom to shape how product & engineering collaborate — from process design to tooling.

- A founder-driven company where your voic