About Scout24
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. #WorkingatScout24 means being part of a diverse and inclusive team of around 1100 colleagues and 58 nationalities.
Benefits
- Compensation: A competitive salary package and a bonus on top.
- Flexibility: Hybrid work model with three days on-site per week, 30 days of vacation per year.
- Work from abroad: Up to 10 days per year, subject to business requirements.
- Relocation: Relocation agency support with visa process and an attractive relocation package.
- Development: Dedicated learning time per month, ScoutAcademy courses, structured feedback, "Lunch & Learn" events, individual career paths.
- Family support: Professional family service for childcare, including emergency childcare.
- Dog-friendly office, subsidized public transport/Job Bikes, company pension scheme.
- Modern, award-winning office in the heart of Berlin with gym, napping room, rooftop terrace, organic coffee, and a weekly massage therapist.
About the Role
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. As Technical Lead, you will set the platform's technical direction and continue to build and operate software. This is an individual-contributor role in a department of 12 engineers, reporting to the Head of Application Platform.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Design and build platform capabilities and automation, including integrations over managed services, AWS EKS, 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.
- Explain platform decisions in technical discussions and mentor engineers across career levels.
What You Need to Succeed
- Experience as a product engineer building and operating production services end to end.
- Production software experience in Go, TypeScript or Python, working across unfamiliar codebases.
- Experience designing, building, debugging, and operating services on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS or comparable).
- Ability to automate infrastructure and software delivery through infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and safe rollout/recovery. AWS CDK used; Terraform or Pulumi experience equally relevant.
- Experience leading technical work with no established approach, making architecture and build-vs-buy decisions, and aligning people without formal authority.
- SRE experience covering observability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident learning and recovery. Willing to join shared on-call after onboarding.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to drive problem-solving and productivity.