[Hiring] Technical Lead @Boardwise

Role Description

• Lead an outstanding engineering team
• Coach engineers through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and collaboration
• Support hiring, onboarding, and professional growth
• Remove blockers and help your team perform at its best
• Own delivery
  • Translate product goals into realistic engineering plans
  • Break down complex initiatives into well-defined work packages
  • Scope, estimate, and prioritize work together with Product
  • Balance quality, speed, and business impact
• Shape technical direction
  • Drive architectural decisions within your team
  • Maintain high engineering standards through reviews and mentoring
  • Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Contribute hands-on to features, refactoring, and production issues
• Collaborate across the organisation
  • Align with other Technical Leads and Product Managers
  • Coordinate dependencies across teams
  • Share knowledge and continuously improve engineering practices
• Drive AI-first engineering
  • Use AI daily for implementation, code reviews, testing, debugging, documentation, and architecture
  • Continuously improve engineering workflows using AI
  • Coach your team in adopting new AI capabilities
  • Experiment with emerging AI tools and establish best practices

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend or full-stack development
• Strong experience with ASP.NET Core
• Experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Experience building scalable SaaS products
• Comfortable working in cloud-native architectures
• Experience with Azure and Microsoft 365 APIs is a plus
• Experience with F#, or strong C# skills and genuine motivation to learn functional programming

Requirements

• Already led an engineering team and enjoy helping people grow
• Ability to scope and estimate complex work
• Prioritize effectively under changing requirements
• Balance technical debt with product delivery
• Make pragmatic engineering decisions
• Keep teams aligned and accountable
• Lead by example and remain hands-on

Nice to Have

• F#
• Domain-Driven Design
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing
• Vertical Slice Architecture
• Microsoft Graph API
• React Native
• Enterprise B2B software
• Governance or regulated industries

Benefits

• Build software that matters
• Your work supports board members and executive teams at some of Europe's largest organisations
• Work with exceptional people
• Join an experienced founder-led company that values ownership, pragmatism, and fast decision-making
• AI-first engineering
• Redesigning engineering workflows around AI—not treating it as an add-on
• Modern technology: F#, ASP.NET Core, React, Azure, Microsoft 365, Event-Driven Architecture, AI, and Functional Programming
• Remote-first: Work from wherever you're most productive—our Hamburg office, your home office, or a camper van somewhere in southern Europe

Company Description

Boardwise was founded in 2019 within Axel Springer with the mission to digitize and simplify boardroom operations. What began as an internal project has since evolved into a fast-growing independent SaaS company led by an experienced founding team with a strong background in startups and enterprise software.

We help leadership teams and board offices of large organisations manage meetings and decision-making more efficiently, securely, and transparently. Our enterprise-grade solution is trusted by major organisations, including more than 30% of DAX-listed companies, such as E.ON, BAYER, VW Financial Services, and ProSiebenSat.1.

At Boardwise, we’re not just building software – we’re redefining how high-level decisions are made in modern organisations. As a remote-first company with an international team, we offer real ownership, fast learning curves, and the opportunity to make an impact in a meaningful space.