Technical Lead Backend ()

keleya is an innovative FemTech startup based in Berlin that offers expectant and new parents high-quality support and resources to help them enjoy a healthy and happy pregnancy birth and parental leave.

Our mobile app is unique in its combination of a personalized pregnancy calendar a health tracker and a selection of workouts recipes and a midwife chat for expectant and new mothersmuch of it covered by health insurance at no cost to users. Since our founding in summer 2017 we have been working on our mission with passion agility and team spirit and have already supported over 600000 women.

Tasks

• Own and evolve backend & cloud architecture Design build and operate scalable reliable backend systems using on AWS ensuring best practices across infrastructure security and performance.
• Lead infrastructure automation and delivery excellence Drive the transition to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to enable fast safe and repeatable deployments.
• Provide technical leadership and cross-functional guidance Mentor backend engineers uphold high code quality standards and clearly communicate architectural trade-offs to product frontend and non-technical stakeholders.

Success in the first 6 months looks like:

1. Infrastructure Health & Optimization: Conduct a comprehensive audit of our AWS environment to identify opportunities for scalability cost-efficiency and security improvements.
2. Modernization: Creation of a roadmap to migrate core infrastructure to a manageable Infrastructure as Code stack.
3. Delivery & Mentorship: actively leading the technical delivery of key product features while mentoring the backend team on code quality.

Requirements

Core Requirements

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Proficiency with managing core services (VPC RDS ECS S3) following industry best practices.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven experience with tools like Terraform to lead our transition from manual setup to automated reproducible infrastructure.

• Backend Architecture: Deep experience designing reliable scalable applications using TypeScript and .

• CI/CD Automation: Experience optimizing build and deploy pipelines (specifically GitHub Actions).

• Communication: Ability to explain complex architectural trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders clearly.

Nice To Have

• ISO27001 Experience: Familiarity with security controls and compliance standards.
• React/Frontend Awareness: Ability to understand the needs of our Web and Mobile (React Native) developers.
• German language skills are a plus

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on meaningful digital health solutions impacting lives globally.
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive team environment.
• Professional growth opportunities through learning and mentorship programs.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid work model from home and at our office in Berlin-Mitte.
• 3 months remote work from anywhere in the world per year.
• 30 vacation days.
• Urban sports club membership.