Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Web, IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 70.000 to 95.000€ Gross/Year Full-time basis
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will take on the technical leadership of an 8-person team, actively develop software, shape the technical strategy and architecture, foster team development, and implement new technologies.
Your role in the team
We're looking for a Hands-on Engineering Lead, taking over the day-to-day leadership for our 8-person cross-functional engineering team. You’ll manage and grow people, steer technical strategy and architecture, and still write meaningful production code. We expect you to actively explore and introduce new technologies, to improve how we build software and to unlock new, future proof capabilities in our product. Expect roughly
- 30% Team leadership
- 30% Technical leadership
- 30% Hands-on development
- 10% Delivery & coordination
What You'll Do
Team
- Own hiring for the team.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews and career planning.
- Mentor engineers and conduct technical onboarding.
- Foster a healthy team culture: psychological safety, feedback, and continuous improvement.
Technical leadership (30%)
- Own and evolve the technical roadmap and architectural vision.
- Make/drive key architecture decisions and cross-service designs.
- Advance and enforce development standards (code reviews, testing, observability).
- Leiten Sie die technische Weiterentwicklung und Plattformverbesserungen
- Introduce new technologies, not limited to A.I., to improve productivity, product capabilities or system quality.
Hands-on development (30%)
- Implement high-impact features and architectural changes.
- Tackle the hardest technical problems and unblock teammates.
- Review PRs for high-risk changes and mentor via code reviews.
- Contribute to DevOps work and reliability improvements.
Delivery & coordination (10%)
- Collaborate with Product on prioritisation and release planning.
- Leads incident response for major outages and post-mortems.
- Improve delivery predictability and engineering processes.
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Responsibility Distribution
New Features
Client Support
Documentation
Organisation
Meetings
Our expectations of you
Experience
- Several years building and shipping production systems and leading small-medium teams.
- Strong backend/frontend experience (either, or, or both, no need for Full-Stack).
- Solid track record of architecture, system design, and pragmatic tradeoffs.
- Prior people management or clear mentoring experience.
- Hands-on coding comfort, you'll still ship code regularly.
- Vertrautheit mit modernen Cloud- und CI/CD-Praktiken (z. B. Amazon Web Services, Docker, Cypress).
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies and tools.
- Interest in modern tooling, including A.I., automation and new frameworks.
- Excellent communication, you translate technical tradeoffs to product and non-technical stakeholders.
- A collaborative, quality-driven mindset and ownership mentality.
- Nice-to-have, experience with Django.
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What we offer
Ready to build the tech that fuels global change? If you’re a hands-on leader who thrives in agile squads and wants your code to actually matter, we’d love to see your application. Let’s make a real-world impact together.
The actual salary depends on your qualifications and experience and starts at €70,000 gross per year (based on a 38.5-hour week).
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Formunauts
Wien
Formunauts provides an international "Software as a Service" solution for face-to-face fundraising and petition campaigns. We work hard to help large and small charities achieve success in nine countries (AT, DE, CH, UK, IT, RO, LT, HU, CL). Our clients include more than 100 charities such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, WWF or Doctors without Borders.
Description
- Company Size
- 1-49 Employees
- Founding year
- 2014
- Language
- German, English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- NGO, NPO, Associations, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Lead Engineer
- Salary
- 70.000 to 95.000€ Gross/Year Full-time basis
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
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