Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d)

<h2>These tasks are waiting for you</h2> <ul> <li>Take technical ownership of Configuration Experience — the team that builds and manages our insurance products — and set the direction for how the team delivers.</li> <li>Spend the bulk of your time hands-on: researching technical solutions, writing RFCs, building PoCs with other teams, and shipping the resulting code yourself.</li> <li>Act as a sparring partner for product managers and stakeholders on key business and technical decisions.</li> <li>Keep delivery on track — plan realistically, follow agile principles, hit deadlines.</li> <li>Lead people by example: give feedback, run team meetings, support colleagues' growth. This is a smaller part of the role — most of your time stays technical.</li> <li>Spot obstacles early, resolve them, and keep stakeholders proactively informed.</li> </ul> <h2>This is what you bring to the table</h2> <p>You don't need to tick every box. If this sounds like your kind of work, we want to hear from you.</p> <ul> <li>Solid hands-on experience as a software engineer with Node.js and TypeScript.</li> <li>First experience leading or managing people — you don't need years of management under your belt, but you've done it at least once and want to grow into it further.</li> <li>Full-stack understanding across frontend and backend, with a cloud-agnostic mindset.</li> <li>Solid experience working with AI tools in your engineering workflow — Harnesses, delegating tasks to subagents, orchestrating multi-agent setups, and similar. Clear communicator, motivated to grow into building and guiding a team over time.</li> <li>Insurance or finance experience is a plus.</li> </ul> <h2>What we offer</h2> <p>Together with our investor, AXA, we offer a combination of entrepreneurial freedom, leading technological know-how, reliability and extensive experience in the conception and management of insurance solutions that is rather unusual for the insurance industry.</p> <p>When you become part of our team, you can expect to work with incredibly versatile and talented colleagues.</p> <ul> <li>The opportunity to lead and grow an exciting team</li> <li>The opportunity to shape the future of insurance by contributing to the strategy and success of Alteos and further advancing one of the worlds leading core insurance systems</li> <li>Modern working in the middle of Berlin's City-West, with a wide range of perks and benefits. To name a few: subsidized lunch &#x26; one free lunch a week, discount on BVG ticket, company (e-)bike leasing, urban sports club, mental well-being app</li> <li>Many opportunities to connect with your colleagues outside of daily work, e.g.through team events, weekly yoga classes, team runs and more</li> <li>A flexible work model (hybrid working role)</li> </ul> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>