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Principal Engineer (w/m/d)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Hamburg, Germany
Experience
Senior · 7+ years
Job description
Technical lead role at a Hamburg digital agency, leading teams and taking technical responsibility for web and mobile app projects for clients.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Hamburg, Germany
- Languages
- German – fluent, English – fluent
- Pay
- EUR 77,500 – 90,000 / year
What you'll do
- Act as technical contact for client decision-makers and advise them strategically
- Support pitches, create slides and technical concepts and present them
- Lead projects technically end to end, from architecture to deployment
- Design new features with product managers and UX designers and implement them with the team
- Build new topics and technologies hands-on in projects, such as new shop systems, frameworks or cloud providers
- Coach the team, give regular feedback and foster colleagues through tech mentoring
- Help shape development processes pragmatically, especially AI-supported development (tools, workflows, quality assurance)
- Keep an eye on economics: estimate effort, watch budgets and support project management
- Actively help develop the whole organization
- Lead architecture workshops independently
- Take responsibility for specification, implementation, testing and deployment of features together with product designers and product owners
What we're looking for
- 7+ years of experience in web or app development
- 4+ years of experience as tech lead or in technical leadership of teams
- Solid experience with React as well as Node.js, Flutter or Kotlin
- Several years of experience in technical responsibility for medium-sized projects (500+ person-days)
- Experience with application architecture and guiding teams in setting up applications from scratch
- Ability to lead projects holistically on the technical side
- Stay clear-headed in intensive project phases and handle uncertainty calmly
- Willingness to take responsibility beyond your own work and learn new things
- Fluent German and English
- Very good understanding of architecture
Benefits
- 29 vacation days per year
- Flexible work location: office, home office or fully remote in Germany
- Company laptop and home office setup
- Support for mental health
- Urban Sports Club membership
- Option for a sabbatical
- Company pension scheme
- Fully financed Deutschlandticket Premium
- Regular team events and company parties
- Free drinks and snacks
- Dogs welcome in the office
- Investment in further education
How to get hired
- 1In the first weeks you will get into existing projects and architecture concepts and implement first features for clients
- 2Then you take on responsibility and join pitch processes
- 3Applications are welcome even if not all requirements are met but you want to develop quickly
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About Protofy GmbH & Co. KG
The Outcome Agency from Hamburg
Technology is not an end in itself but a business case translated into revenue, efficiency and growth
Mission
Develop digital products, platforms and AI systems that have measurable impact
Key facts
- Hamburg, Germany
- Digital agency
- Over 10 years of developing digital products, platforms and AI systems
- Develops websites and mobile apps for industries such as e-commerce, knowledge management and sports
- Projects run three to nine months or are further developed long-term as products
What they value
- Technology is not an end in itself but a business case