Platform Tech Lead (d/m/f)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid work with three days per week on-site in the office. Work from abroad is possible for 10 days per year, subject to business and team requirements. Relocation support and visa-process assistance are available.

Company

hirify.global is Germany’s leading real-estate platform and part of Scout24, building a digital ecosystem for homeowners, property seekers, and agents in Germany and Austria.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for the Application Platform and translate approved strategy into architecture, service interfaces, technical standards, and delivery sequencing.
• Lead major cross-team initiatives and migrations, including build-versus-buy analysis and technical decisions affecting platform strategy.
• Design, build, and operate platform capabilities and automation across managed services, AWS EKS, and the shared software-delivery path.
• Develop secure, reliable APIs, self-service workflows, and machine-usable interfaces for AI agents based on recurring developer needs.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, maintainability, performance, incident learning, and disaster recovery while participating in the shared on-call rotation.
• Work with product teams, senior engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Security; explain technical trade-offs and mentor engineers across career levels.

Requirements

• Experience as a product engineer building and operating production services end to end, with interest in platforms used by other engineers.
• Production software development experience in Go, TypeScript, or Python, including the ability to work across unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience designing, building, debugging, and operating services on AWS and Kubernetes, including EKS or a comparable Kubernetes environment.
• Experience automating infrastructure and software delivery through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and safe rollout and recovery practices; AWS CDK is used, while Terraform or Pulumi experience is equally relevant.
• Ability to turn developer needs into secure, reliable APIs, automation, and self-service workflows, and to help teams adopt shared capabilities.
• Experience leading technical work without an established approach, making architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, aligning people without formal authority, communicating trade-offs clearly, and mentoring engineers across career levels.
• SRE experience covering observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, and recovery, plus willingness to join the shared on-call rotation after onboarding.
• Experience using AI tools for problem-solving and productivity while maintaining effective human oversight and judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, learning-oriented culture with approximately 1,100 colleagues and 58 nationalities.
• Hybrid work model, 30 days of vacation per year, and the option to work abroad for 10 days per year subject to business requirements.
• Competitive salary package with an additional bonus, company pension scheme, public-transport or Job-Bike subsidy, and relocation support.
• Dedicated learning time, online courses, book challenges, feedback structures, Lunch & Learn events, and individual career paths.
• Family services, approved dog-friendly office access, health coaching and checkups, gym and wellness facilities, and a barrier-free office near Berlin Central Station.
• Commitment to sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, charitable activities, and modern technical tools and hardware.

Hiring process

• Disability support is available throughout the application process through the company’s disability representative.