Director of Technology (f/m/d)

What you will do:

• Contribute to the development of our demand solutions backend written all in Go and maintain our microservice architecture used to communicate with our dashboard (based on TypeScript React). To do this, you’ll use event buses like Kafka, SQS/SNS, and Kinesis in order to have reliable asynchronous microservice communication.
• Work in a community of developers with whom you’ll share knowledge and contribute to peer code reviews. 
• Work with modern databases such as DynamoDB and ScyllaDB to deliver few-millisecond response times for our mobile APIs and Druid to support fast and insightful analysis in our dashboard.
• Continuously improve our distribution in order to stay up-to-date with the latest changes on the Android and iOS platform.
• Be responsible for collecting the billions of daily API events and aggregating them in our Kafka and Kinesis streams with the goal of querying them from the data lake in a matter of seconds. 
• Design & maintain APIs used by our external partners for reporting and publishing configuration changes for advertisers like for example uploading new images and videos for ads.
• Design & maintain APIs used by our mobile end users such that we can serve their traffic at scale. 
• Be part of an international English-speaking team dedicated to scaling our adtech platform beyond our hundreds of millions of monthly active users.

Who you are:

• You have gained several years’ experience as a software architect/senior software developer and/or tech team lead.
• You have hands-on experience with Go, which is applied in a real working BE application.
• You are an expert in different technologies – for example, in 2 programming languages.
• You thoroughly understand cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• You feel comfortable managing people and have previously worked in a leadership role in a fast-changing environment
• Plus: You have knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript (preferably of 1 framework such as React, Vue.js, or Angular)

Fuel for the Journey: Benefits to Support Your Ambitions

• Invest in Your Future: Regular feedback and our development program support your growth, helping you expand your skillset and achieve your career goals.
• Easy Arrival to adjoe: From signing to settling in Hamburg, we’ve got you covered. Need a visa? No problem. Ready to build your new life and career at adjoe in Hamburg? We support every ambition—from learning German to a relocation bonus that helps you settle in and make Hamburg feel like home.
• Live Your Best Life, at Work and Beyond: We work in a hybrid setup with 3 core office days, plus flexible working hours. Enjoy 30 vacation days, 3 weeks of remote work per year, and free access to an in-house gym with lots of different fitness classes and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Thrive Where You Work: Enjoy the Alster lake view from our central office with top-notch equipment, fun open spaces, and a large variety of snacks and drinks.
• Join the Community! Participate in regular team and company events, including hackathons and social gatherings. We work together, and we celebrate together, too.