Platform Tech Lead (d/m/f)

Location: Berlin

Team: Engineering

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About the Position

We look forward to getting to know you!

Scout24 is home of ImmoScout24, Germany’s #1 for real estate. With ImmoScout24 we have been revolutionizing the real estate market in Germany and Austria for more than 25 years. Our goal is to build a digital ecosystem that brings homeowners, seekers, and agents together. Finding the right home and property is one of the most important decisions in life. So is your career! #WorkingatScout24 means being part of a diverse and inclusive team of around 1100 colleagues and 58 nationalities. We embrace difference and celebrate individuality. By encouraging open mindedness and authenticity we enable a true learning culture and prepare the ground for personal development. Mistakes are a chance to grow and to innovate. Together we act proactively, strive for improvement, and take responsibility. We talk about success and challenge while treating each other with respect because we are #oneteam.

If this sounds interesting to you, we would love to see you joining us! Even if you may not tick all the boxes of the job requirements, we are happy to hear about the value you can add to the team. Grow with us! Welcome home!

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Responsibilities

As Technical Lead, you will set the platform's technical direction and continue to build and operate software. Your responsibilities will include:

• Shape platform strategy and turn approved decisions into architecture, service interfaces, technical standards, and a clear delivery order.
• Lead major initiatives and migrations across team boundaries. Own build-versus-buy analysis and make the technical call, escalating decisions that would change platform strategy to the Head of Application Platform.
• Design and build platform capabilities and automation, including integrations over managed services, our AWS EKS compute platform, and the shared software-delivery path.
• Turn recurring developer needs into secure, reliable APIs and self-service workflows, including machine-usable interfaces for AI agents.
• Set and improve standards for reliability, observability, security, maintainability, and performance.
• Strengthen incident learning and disaster recovery, and share on-call with the engineers who build the platform.
• Work with product teams to test whether shared capabilities meet their needs.
• Explain platform decisions in technical discussions and mentor engineers across career levels.

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Requirements

• You have worked as a product engineer, building and operating production services end to end, and want to apply that experience to platforms used by other engineers.
• You build production software in Go, TypeScript, or Python and can work across unfamiliar codebases.
• You have designed, built, debugged, and operated services on AWS and Kubernetes, including EKS or a comparable Kubernetes environment.
• You can automate infrastructure and software delivery through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and safe rollout and recovery practices. We use AWS CDK; experience with Terraform or Pulumi is equally relevant.
• You can turn developer needs into secure, reliable APIs, automation, and self-service workflows, and have helped teams adopt shared capabilities.
• You have led technical work with no established approach, made architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, and aligned people without formal authority. You communicate trade-offs clearly and mentor engineers across career levels.
• Your SRE experience covers observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, and recovery. You are willing to join the shared on-call rotation after onboarding.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to drive problem-solving and productivity, maintaining effective human oversight and judgement.

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We Offer

• Competitive salary package and a bonus on top.
• Hybrid work model with three days of on-site work per week in the office, and you can organize the remaining days as you wish. We offer you 30 days of vacation per year.
• Possibility to work from abroad for 10 days per year, subject to the business requirements of the company and team.
• Relocation support with your visa process and an attractive relocation package.
• Advantage of our plus membership for tenants on ImmoScout24 to find a new place to live.
• Dedicated learning time per month, online courses on our ScoutAcademy, regular book challenges, structured feedback, “Lunch & Learn”-Events, and individual career paths to push your career to the next level.
• Professional family service to help you find a childcare center or offers emergency childcare.
• Option to bring your dog to work (upon approval).
• Subsidy for public transport or Job Bikes.
• Commitment to sustainability and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) with clear environmental and climate protection goals and involvement in social activities and charitable organizations throughout the year.
• Company pension scheme with support for your own contribution.
• Innovative office in the heart of Berlin with barrier-free access, a gym, napping room, rooftop terrace, organic coffee, cafeteria, 100% green electricity, and a weekly massage therapist.
• Life Situation Coaching and regular health check-ups.
• Work with the latest technical tools and hardware.

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About the Company

Scout24 product teams own their services from development through production. Application Platform provides the shared capabilities that hundreds of engineers across Scout24 and its subsidiaries use to build, release, observe, operate, and recover software.

Scout24 values and promotes the diversity that our employees bring to the company in terms of individual characteristics, talents, and perspectives. We are convinced that it is precisely this diversity that forms the basis of our success. People can only give their best when they feel safe, valued, and respected as individuals. Everyone is welcome here - regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual identity, skin color, citizenship, history of migration, religion or ideology, disability, age, or marital status. Scout24 aims to support and promote all employees in the best possible way. With our 58 nationalities, we live diversity and want to further strengthen diversity in our company. The more diverse our teams are, the more experience and ideas flow into our products. This allows us to tailor them even better to the needs of our customers. An inclusive working environment also increases employee loyalty and motivation.

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We aim to further enhance the diversity of our company and support the professional development of people with disabilities. We have a disability representative who will assist you throughout the application process. If you require this support, please let us know in advance.

Send us your documents and tell us why you want to join us.

At Scout24, we value and promote the diversity that our employees bring to the company in terms of individual characteristics, talents, and perspectives. Because we are convinced that it is precisely this diversity that forms the basis of our success. People can only give their best when they feel safe, valued, and respected as individuals. Everyone is welcome here - regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual identity, skin color, citizenship, history of migration, religion or ideology, disability, age, or marital status. Scout24 aims to support and promote all employees in the best possible way. With our 58 nationalities, we live diversity and want to further strengthen diversity in our company. The more diverse our teams are, the more experience and ideas flow into our products. This allows us to tailor them even better to the needs of our customers. An inclusive working environment also increases employee loyalty and motivation.

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