Tech Lead, Application Layer

👷🏻‍♀️ What we do 👷🏻‍♀️

At Emidat, we are building the first climate-native product management system for building material manufacturers. We aim to decarbonise building materials, making up 11% of global GHG emissions. We collect data from physical production processes, generate a digital product passport with verified environmental data and make it usable along the value chain. In short: One solution to assess, design, buy, sell and manage products - with environmental impact at the core.

With this, we are building the digital infrastructure to make it faster, easier, and more sustainable to build the world around us.

Find out more about us, the team and our values here.

What you will work on

Your mission

Turn Emidat's verified environmental data into applications that make producing sustainable materials a business value. That means leading the engineering team responsible for discovering and building the most customer demanded applications, working closely with our product team.

First projects will include improving our Emidat Atlas, enabling competitive insights in the platform and helping our customers leverage their data as a business value, building critical applications such as a Emidat's DPP offering. This is Emidat's most explorative team, and the expectation is that the applications you build will seed entirely new product lines.

As Tech Lead, you own both the technical direction of the Application Layer team and its execution. You set the engineering bar, make the hard architectural calls, and create the conditions for 5–6 engineers to do their best work. You're a senior technical voice in discovery conversations, actively shaping what gets built and how, while still contributing to the codebase for the majority of your time to earn credibility with your team.

In the first 6 months, you will

• Ship digital product passports: lead the end-to-end delivery of the DPP application, enabling manufacturers to generate, manage, and share certified product data that unlocks real market access

• Find what drives recurring value on the platform: instrument, observe, and talk to users to identify which features or data products bring people back

• Establish technical direction: architecture patterns, tooling standards, and engineering practices that the team builds on empowering engineers to move fast

• Hire and expand the team. Raise the ceiling of what 5–6 engineers can ship together in a space where the roadmap is still being written, increasing output through code review, pairing, and technical mentorship.

• Discover together with product what the sales and R&D personas actually need: get in front of customer teams, attend discoveries, and ship the first iterations of an application that makes digital product data useful in a new context

Our Tech Stack:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript

• Backend: FastAPI, gRPC

• Frontend: React

• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis

• Infrastructure & DevOps: Kubernetes, OpenTofu, OTel, AWS, Azure

• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, Docker, FluxCD

• Product Delivery: Linear

What you should bring to this role

Minimum requirements

• 6+ years of professional Software Engineering experience, with strong proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go, or Rust)

• Experience leading engineers, either in a Tech / Team Lead position, or as a Senior Engineer in a coaching / mentorship capacity

• Experience driving new product initiatives for a B2B Software platform, building & bringing additional value for users.

• Experienced working in a high-paced startup environment (i.e <200 people, <Series C etc).

• Demonstrated ability to take a feature from initial discovery and conceptualization through development, deployment, and iterations with users customers

• Experienced in leveraging AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate development and increase code quality.

• Business-Fluent English (written and verbal) for internal and external communication
  

Nice to have’s

• Experience in a related field such as Data Analytics, Climate/Manufacturing Tech, or Product Management Systems is highly valued.

• Experience in managing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., OpenTofu), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), building automated deployment pipelines

• Experience hiring engineers or meaningfully contributing to a hiring process

How we support you

Your manager / team lead will be

• Florian Fesch (CTO & Co-Founder)

You will work closely with

• Lisa (CEO & Co-Founder)

• Andrei (Software Engineer)

• Tom (Tech Lead, Software Engineering)

• Nils (Tech Lead, Software Engineering)

• Alexandre (Software Engineer)

• Jona (Product Manager)

• Lauren (Design Lead)

• (and the engineers you will be leading on this team)

Your mentors can be

We have built up a strong network of supporters in the product and tech who want us to succeed with our software solution. You’ll have access to product and tech experts from day 1, amongst them

• David Bellem (Co-Founder & prev. CTO @payworks)

• Nino Ulsamer (Co-Founder & CTO @StashAway)

• Renaud Visage (Co-Founder & prev. CTO @Eventbrite)
  

Meet the rest of the team HERE.

See our full benefits HERE, including;

• 💸 Attractive compensation package including VSOP (for FTE’s)

• 🏖️ 25 days of vacation days per year

• 💻 Any hardware you need to accomplish your work

• 📚 €2,000 Learning Budget

Admin:

• Role type: Full-Time

• Location: Munich, Germany

• Office Requirement: Hybrid

• Travel Required? No

• Visa / Relocation: Preference will be given to candidates already based in Munich and that do not require visa sponsorship. However we are open to candidates who may need relocation or a visa.