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Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead (m/f/d), Berlin
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Location: Berlin, Germany
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 51d8050ed1cc
Job Views: 2
Posted: 24.08.2025
Expiry Date: 08.10.2025
Job Description:
Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead (m/f/d)
We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead / Lead Engineer to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our next-generation pricing, sales, and marketing platforms, such as our dynamic pricing software platform. This individual will lead a team of engineers to build a data-intensive application leveraging AWS cloud services, Java, and Python, ensuring high scalability, performance, and robustness. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will set the technical vision, guide architectural decisions, and contribute directly to coding and solution design while mentoring and developing your team.
Simon-Kucher is at the forefront of innovation in our space, inventing business models, algorithms, solutions, and methodologies for unlocking better growth of our clients. And Simon-Kucher Engine’s digital end-to-end solutions deliver sustained top-line impact for our clients. Are you interested in working in a team of digital evangelists with a can-do attitude? Want to experience the dynamics of agile processes in open-minded teams? How about getting creative in a startup atmosphere with a steep development curve and flat hierarchies? And most importantly, do you want to make a difference? Then you've come to the right place.
This is a hybrid position with flexible time split between working in our Berlin office and remote working.
What makes us special:
* Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with an entrepreneurial and startup spirit
* Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
* Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by openness and integrity
* Enjoy the opportunity to work from abroad (workation)
* Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
* Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g., LinkedIn Learning)
* Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g., 360-degree feedback)
* Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
* Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g., Headspace)
* Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to healthy snacks and beverages
* See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party
How you will create an impact:
Leadership & Strategy
* Define and drive the technical roadmap for the dynamic pricing platform.
* Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of software engineers and data engineers.
* Champion engineering best practices, agile development, and DevOps culture.
Architecture & Development
* Architect a cloud-native, data-heavy pricing system on AWS with high reliability and scalability.
* Oversee core modules for pricing algorithms, real-time data processing, and analytics integration.
* Ensure seamless integration of data pipelines, APIs, and third-party systems.
* Write clean, high-performance code in Java and Python while setting coding standards for the team.
Data & Performance
* Design systems capable of ingesting, transforming, and analyzing large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.
* Optimize computation-heavy models and queries for low-latency, high-throughput pricing operations.
* Implement monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization strategies in AWS.
Collaboration & Delivery
* Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to align technology with business outcomes.
* Translate complex pricing or sales requirements into scalable, production-ready software.
* Ensure timely delivery of features with a balance of speed, quality, and technical debt management.
About you:
Technical Expertise
* You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field.
* Strong programming background in Java and Python.
* Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, data-intensive systems.
* Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Glue, Redshift).
* Proficiency in building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
* Understanding of data modeling, ETL pipelines, and high-performance computing.
Leadership & Delivery
* 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, and deliver complex software projects.
* Experience working with agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.
Preferred
* Exposure to machine learning / optimization algorithms applied to pricing or similar domains.
* Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Experience in fintech, e-commerce, travel, or retail pricing systems.
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