Engineering Team Lead

Full Job Description

ABOUT US

Our mission at Avelios is to unlock clinical data to power seamless healthcare operations for better patient care. To do so, we have built a modular software platform that digitizes and optimizes workflows in hospitals with cutting-edge technology in a user-friendly way. With our software, we enable hospitals, doctors & nurses to provide their patients with the best possible care. We are growing fast and want to keep expanding our team and business to fundamentally digitize healthcare for the better. We appreciate different backgrounds and see diversity as one of our strengths.

THE TEAM AND ROLE

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will combine technical and people leadership, taking ownership of both your team’s performance and the technical direction of its work.

You will lead a team of approximately 4–10 engineers across Frontend and Backend and build a focused, high-performing team that consistently ships high-quality software into production.

You will coach and develop engineers, set a high bar for engineering quality, and define the technical direction for your domain. You will make pragmatic decisions around architecture, priorities, technical debt, and reliability while balancing immediate product needs with the long-term health of our platform.

This is not a purely managerial role. You will stay close to the technology, step into hands-on work where needed, cut through complexity, and ensure your team keeps moving toward the highest-impact outcomes.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Set the technical direction and architecture for your team’s domain

• Build a high-performing engineering culture with strong ownership, accountability, and high standards

• Ensure the team consistently builds, ships, and operates high-quality and reliable software

• Make pragmatic judgment calls across product delivery, technical debt, reliability, and long-term technical investments

• Stay close to the code and contribute hands-on where needed, including architecture, code reviews, complex technical problems, and incident response

• Remove blockers, drive decisions, and keep the team focused on its highest-impact priorities

• Collaborate closely with Product and other Engineering teams to align on priorities, dependencies, and outcomes

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top-tier university, or an equivalent track record of technical excellence

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of building and shipping production software

• 3+ years of experience leading and developing software engineers and providing technical direction to a team

• Strong software engineering fundamentals across system design, architecture, code quality, testing, and reliability

• Experience making architectural and technical decisions for complex software products

• Full-Stack experience or the ability to confidently operate across Frontend and Backend is preferred

• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make effective decisions in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information

• High degree of ownership and drive, with a bias toward action and getting things done

• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with a strong focus on outcomes

• Fluent in English; German is a plus

YOUR BENEFITS

• Variety in your tasks and the opportunity to take ownership

• An international, informal team structure in a motivating start-up atmosphere, allowing you to participate directly in our customer growth story and the overall success of Avelios

• Ability to gain valuable hands-on experience in a startup backed by leading international VCs

• Support for your personal development through continuous learning and feedback

• Set your own rhythm with flexible working hours and trust-based time tracking

• A virtual stock option package (VSOP) that lets you participate in Avelios’ long-term value creation

• A monthly meal allowance up to 75 euros, full coverage of the Deutschlandticket, Urban Sports Club or a subsidized Wellpass membership, a bike leasing program and Corporate Benefits that give you access to discounts from a wide range of providers in various areas