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Team Lead Software Engineering (m/f/d)

Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced software engineer with a track record of technical leadership to join the Marketplace & Memorials Platform team. You'll lead a team of 3–4 engineers, owning both delivery and the day-to-day technical direction of the team. This is a hands-on lead role: you'll be writing code alongside your team while also setting standards, unblocking people, and keeping the work moving. 
Lead engineering across a portfolio serving hundreds of funeral homes and tens of thousands of families – spanning high-volume integrations, a digital product suite, and a print platform under strategic review. You'll modernise legacy cloud solutions using Agentic AI toward a target architecture of .NET 10, React, and Azure AKS, while delivering next-generation AI-powered death notice and booklet design tools. You'll work daily with international colleagues across Germany, Sweden, and Norway.

Your tasks:

  • Lead a team of 3–4 engineers: day-to-day guidance, technical direction, and delivery accountability
  • Support the growth and effectiveness of your team members
  • Identify and address technical risk, dependencies, and blockers early
  • Collaborate closely with product management and customer success to scope, plan, and deliver features end-to-end
  • Work closely with the Architect, other engineering teams, DevOps, and the CTOto keeptechnicaldirection aligned across the company
  • Define and uphold engineering practices and quality standards within your team

Technical Environment 

  • Backend: C# (required); Java or PHP a plus
  • Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
  • Frontend: React, Vue


Your skillset:

  • Strong C# background with production experience across multiple projects
  • Proven experience leading small engineering teams, including direct technical mentorship
  • Solid grasp of CI/CD,containerisation, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.)
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans
  • Ownership mentality, from design through to production
  • Fluent English (German or Swedish a plus)

What we offer:

  • A Berlin office that keeps you close to Engineering, Product, and the rest of the business
  • Real autonomy over how your team gets work done
  • A small engineering leadership group working on foundational platform challenges
  • Direct influence on the technical direction of a company in transformation
  • Meaningful work as the market leader in funeral technology
  • International collaboration across Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Poland

Über uns

Rapid Data ist führender Softwareanbieter für die Bestattungsbranche in Europa und steht seit 1989 für Innovation und Fortschritt. Es ist unsere Leidenschaft hochmoderne ERP- und CRM-Lösungen zu entwickeln, die die Art und Weise, wie Bestattungsdienstleister arbeiten, revolutionieren. 
 
Wir sind mehr als nur ein Unternehmen  – wir sind Wegbereiter für Veränderungen und stehen an vorderster Front, um die Branche in eine neue Ära zu führen. Unser Ziel ist es, nicht nur in Europa präsent zu sein, sondern eine weltweite Präsenz aufzubauen, um jeden Bestattungsdienstleister und seine Partner mit unserer All-in-One-Technologieplattform zu unterstützen. 
 
Getrieben von unserer Vision und unterstützt durch einen der anspruchsvollsten und renommiertesten Private-Equity-Investoren der Welt, befinden wir uns in einer Phase beschleunigten Wachstums. Jeder Tag ist für uns eine neue Gelegenheit, unsere Grenzen zu überschreiten und unsere Träume zu verwirklichen. Wir sind bereit, die Welt zu verändern – seien Sie Teil dieser aufregenden Reise mit Rapid Data.