Tech Lead

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
A high-skilled engineer who is able to lead others. A leader who balances technical know-how with emotional maturity and intelligence. A person to whom empathy, decisiveness, and inclusivity come naturally, regardless of the challenges thrown their way. Someone who is able to thrive in a start-up environment that demands agility, our tech lead willingly takes on multiple roles, demonstrating resilience, a pragmatic approach and a solution-oriented mindset. Beyond being proficient in our tech stack, they embody relentless passion, creativity, and a continual thirst for learning. They inspire innovation, standards and best practice, and constantly motivate the team to strive for excellence.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage our engineering team, removing hurdles and ensuring the team can function at their best with peace of mind
- Working closely with Product and others, including external parties where required, you will shape customer needs into product increments as we pivot our strategy to effectively navigate product-market fit
- Ensure the team delivers code quality and according to agreed standards
- Setting the direction and leading developers in the implementation whilst employing business-savviness in the decision-making process, design and implementation of our software projects
- Coach and mentor other engineers while taking ownership of our system to craft a secure and scalable front
- and back-end platform
- Develop secure financial systems with real-time, AI-driven capabilities
- Understand regulatory compliance as well as identify and manage potential risks
- Establish and develop the necessary processes and ways of working to consistently deliver high-quality and stable services to our customers
- Understand the competence landscape within the team and match that against what is required by our roadmap to identify and address needs accordingly.

IN ORDER FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL, YOU BRING:

- Strong leadership skills with at least 2 years hands-on experience managing an engineering team
- Superb problem-solving skills and a strong desire to deliver high-quality solutions
- Confident written and verbal communication skills - an ability to adapt to effectively discuss technical concepts, expectations and deliverables required to any audience
- A discerning and pragmatic mindset that can adapt depending on whether the challenge at hand is short-term or long-term
- A good grasp of scale, data-modelling, architecture and long-term maintenance aspects
- A passion for keeping abreast of new technologies
- Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, as well as being familiar with AWS cloud platform, GraphQL and Kubernetes
- Experience in designing, developing and documenting public APIs and B2B2C products
- A solid background building high performing micro-services in Node.js,
Microservice/Serverless architecture
- You hold a university degree (BSc or MSc) within Computer Science/Engineering or a related field
- Fluent in English; other languages are advantageous as we are working in a fully international team

BENEFITS // WHAT WE OFFER:

- **Remote first**:You can manage your working hours flexibly and pursue our “work-from-anywhere policy”, or enjoy your workday in one of our offices in Vienna or Berlin. The only thing to be aware of: Arrange your day according to Vienna time and be present in our offices from time to time, depending on your role.
- **Impact in health care**:Take your chance to have a positive impact on our healthcare system, by helping to create and develop hi.health further.
- **Embrace our internationality**: Be part of a highly professional, international and inclusive work environment with English as its working language. We love our diversity in all matters and want it to grow further
- **StartUp your vibes**: We live autonomy, feedback and self-organization in a fast-paced environment. We appreciate your thinking outside the box, your ideas, your honesty and your very own personality.
- **Personal development**: We take investment seriously and support your further education by providing you with a professional development budget.
- **What else? A range of employee benefits**: Based on your location and country of residence, we provide competitive packages in the different regions
- **Fair salary package**: For this full-time position we offer a minimum salary of 52.220,00 € gross per year. Your actual salary will be based on your experience and qualification.

ABOUT US:
At hi.health we are creating smooth and digital ways to access healthcare, by layering fintech solutions on top of insurance integrations.

We are currently a team of 20 people, headquartered in Vienna (AT) but with colleagues spread all across Europe. We announced one of Austria's biggest Seed-Rounds and are now backed by an international team of venture capital firms and angels focused on fintech, insurance, and healthcare. We are experiencing solid growth and have be