Technical Project Manager (m/f/d)

As the Technical Project Manager, you’ll lead a team of 4 to 6 developers while actively contributing your senior-level expertise in SaaS development, particularly with Node.js. Collaborating closely with the Project Owner, you’ll translate user needs and internal requirements into clear technical tasks and guide them through to successful implementation. You’ll manage dependencies, estimate development efforts, and coordinate the full cycle—from implementation to code reviews, testing, merging, and final release. You’ll take initiative in leading team meetings when necessary, always aiming for lean, efficient workflows that keep the customer and product at the center of your decisions.

Your responsibilities:

  • Oversee and plan tasks according to our agreed road map, provide feedback to product owner
  • Schedule and lead technical team meetings as needed, lead daily stand-up
  • Plan and execute code reviews; merge pull requests; deploy changes to staging / production
  • Ensure passing automated tests and increase the test coverage
  • Optimize development processes and build pipeline
  • Actively contribute to conceptual and architectural design decisions
  • Troubleshooting: provide or coordinate internal support for our customer success team
  • Performance optimizations and code base maintenance

What we expect:

  • Good knowledge of relational SQL databases
  • Know SaaS infrastructure, server-side business logic, continuous deployment
  • Container virtualization, DevOps technologies (CI/CD), Git version control system
  • Data exchange via REST, HTTP, MQTT/websockets
  • Experience with testing tools (unit/integration tests using Jest or alternatives)
  • Team-player spirit with strong self-learning abilities
  • Excellent communication skills, good English and German level spoken and written.
  • Dev team language is English; German for internal communication with PO & customer success
  • Structured and reliable way of self-organized working
  • Motivate and lead a team and take responsibility for the team’s success
  • Min. 3 years of professional experience with Node.js
  • Min. 5 years of professional experience - SaaS web platform backend development
  • At least 1 year of leadership experience (2+ persons)

That awaits you:

  • Flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes, open corporate culture
  • Opportunity to work with an innovative international team
  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid working
  • Working on solutions that save lives and improve global health
  • Attractive remuneration package: A competitive salary, including additional benefits such as training, share package and team events