Engineering Team Lead

Avelios Medical
Munich, Germany
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward technically proficient candidates comfortable with leading cross-functional teams in healthcare software development, with a preference for those who can balance hands-on engineering with people leadership in a fast-growing startup environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a proven track record in leading and developing engineering teams within healthcare or clinical software domains
    — “lead a team of approximately 4–10 engineers across Frontend and Backend”
  • Individuals who have made architectural decisions for complex software products and can articulate their rationale
    — “Experience making architectural and technical decisions for complex software products”
  • Candidates who are comfortable with a startup atmosphere and have the drive to shape outcomes in a high-impact, evolving space
    — “international, informal team structure in a motivating start-up atmosphere”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a balance between leadership and hands-on technical work, which may demand significant time and energy
    — “This is not a purely managerial role. You will stay close to the code and contribute hands-on where needed”
  • The position involves a commitment to long-term platform health alongside immediate product needs
    — “make pragmatic decisions around architecture, priorities, technical debt, and reliability while balancing immediate product needs with the long-term health of our platform”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in defining and executing technical direction for software domains
    — “Set the technical direction and architecture for your team’s domain”
  • Emphasize your ability to coach and develop engineers, not just manage them
    — “coach and develop engineers, set a high bar for engineering quality”
  • Showcase your background in full-stack development or cross-functional technical expertise
    — “Full-Stack experience or the ability to confidently operate across Frontend and Backend is preferred”
  • Demonstrate your capability to make effective decisions in fast-moving environments with incomplete information
    — “Strong technical judgment and the ability to make effective decisions in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • set technical direction
  • build high-performing engineering culture
Typical background
software engineeringteam leadership

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical LeadershipArchitectureEngineering CultureSoftware QualityPragmatic Decision-makingHands-on Work

Preferred

Full-stack Experience

Stack & domain

Software EngineeringFull-stack DevelopmentSystem DesignArchitectureCode QualityTestingReliabilityLeadershipOwnershipAccountabilityHigh StandardsPragmatic Decision-makingOutcome FocusEngineeringProduct DeliveryTechnical DebtLong-term Investments

About the role

Original posting from Avelios Medical via Ashby

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

Source: Avelios Medical careers (Ashby)

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