Tech Lead, Sastrify
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Budgeting and procurement software
Open for applications
Budgeting and procurement software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the right set of software, lightning fast and for fair prices, to make companies successful.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years in software development, with 3+ years in a senior or staff-level role within a high-growth SaaS environment
- Full-Stack Mastery: Expert-level TypeScript/Node.js/React. Equally comfortable optimizing a React component and debugging a PostgreSQL query
- Cloud-Native: Deep AWS Serverless experience (Lambda, EventBridge, etc.) and Terraform
- Product Fluency: You think in user value, not just code. You can explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Execution Focus: Proven track record taking products from concept to production at scale
- Communication: Fluent English and the ability to influence without formal authority
- Remote (EMEA, GMT±2) | Ideally DACH region with occasional Cologne office presence
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Tech Lead who acts as the primary technical counterpart to our Head of Product
- This is a high-impact, hands-on role (70%+ coding) designed for a seasoned engineer who loves the craft of building software as much as the "why" behind product decisions
- You will bridge the gap between product discovery and technical execution, ensuring our roadmap is ambitious yet technically sound
- You'll report directly to our CTO and work as the voice of engineering in product discussions
- As we scale, you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a small team of engineers who will report to you
- Product Partnership: Collaborate daily with the Head of Product to translate vision into a robust technical roadmap. You'll be engineering's voice in product discovery
- AI-Native Development: Pioneer AI-native workflows, leveraging AI tools to accelerate team velocity. Lead the charge in integrating LLMs, agents, and automation into the Sastrify platform
- Hands-On Execution: Lead by example. Write high-quality, production-ready code across the full stack (React/Node.js). Tackle the most complex technical challenges yourself
- Technical Evolution: Evolve our full-stack architecture pragmatically, ensuring our environment remains performant and cost-effective as we scale
- Technical Feasibility: Evaluate new feature requests for technical risk and effort. Provide high-level estimates and alternative paths to achieve business goals
- Data & Integration Strategy: Drive the technical strategy for integrating with diverse, high-volume customer data sources, ensuring robust data ingestion, reliability, and architectural transparency to deliver maximum user value
- DevOps Excellence: Advocate for and implement best practices in IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD. Keep deployment cycles fast and reliable
- Mentorship & Quality: Drive technical excellence through deep code reviews, pair programming, and setting standards for documentation and testing
- Our Tech Stack:
- Front-End: TypeScript, React.js, React Query, Storybook
- Back-End: Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL (via TypeORM)
- Infrastructure: Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, Terraform
- AI/LLM: AI SDK, LangChain.js, Agents SDK for building AI-native features
- Workflow: Fully automated CI/CD with daily production deployments
Application process
- Interview with Talent Acquisition Manager
- Interview with the Hiring Manager
- Technical Interview with Team
- Interview with one of our Founders
- Reference Check
Our take
Sastrify’s highly-automated platform helps companies, mainly small-medium sized, optimize their SaaS procurement and spending. It’s a smart model as the SaaS industry continues to boom, meaning companies are often at risk of overspending on superfluous tools.
Though only launched in 2020 by a pair of former mobility industry entrepreneurs, Sastrify has shown remarkable growth, already being used by unicorn startups such as Gorillas and sennder.
Through proper investment and strategic partnerships (with companies such as Capchase), Sastrify is aiming to accelerate sales and product development in Europe, the US, and beyond. 2023 funding will help it meet the growing demand for its services by scaling its teams in the US and Europe and further developing its product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2023
$22m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45.3m
Company benefits
- Full responsibility from day one
- Work with our amazing international team
- Monthly Virtual Team Events
- 30 vacation days
- Learning budget
- State of the art equipment (also for your home-office)
- Remote-first mindset (work from anywhere between CET-1 and CET+1)
Company HQ
Ehrenfeld, Köln, Germany
Leadership
Maximilian Messing
(CTO & Co-Founder)Prior to Sastrify, co-founded and was Managing Director of mobility tech company evopark (acquired by Scheidt & Bachmann group, 2018).
Sven Lackinger
(CEO & Co-founder)Co-founded and was co-Managing Director of evopark with Sastrify co-founder Maximilian Messing.
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