Tech Lead, Kertos
Data privacy automation
Open for applications
Data privacy automation
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To save companies time, money, and stress - to focus on their actual business.
Role
Who you are
- Strong background in building scalable web applications
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in fast-growing startups or scale-ups
- Experience as a Senior or Lead Engineer in either Backend (Python/Django) or Frontend (React/TypeScript)
- Thrives in flat hierarchies and team-driven decision-making
- Passion for personal and team growth, fostering collaboration across functions
- Comfortable balancing hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities
- Curiosity to try, evaluate, and adopt new technologies and developer tools
What the job involves
- As a Lead Engineer / Tech Lead at Kertos – the European Champion for Compliance Automation – you’ll lead one of our product squads and play a key role in shaping our platform
- You’ll combine technical leadership and hands-on coding, making impactful technical decisions, driving our development processes, and pushing the boundaries of automation and innovation
- In close collaboration with our CTO, you’ll work on strategic initiatives, continuously improving how we build, ship, and collaborate — taking both our product and team to the next level
- We work in three cross-functional product squads, each focused on one of our core internal products or solutions:
- Squad composition:
- 1 Product Manager, 1 Product Designer, 3–4 Engineers
- Your role: Each squad is led by a Lead Engineer / Tech Lead, reporting directly to the CTO
- Collaboration style: Flat hierarchies, shared ownership, and strong cross-functional teamwork
- TECH STACK
- Backend: Python (Django)
- Frontend: React.js, TypeScript
- Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter
- AI: LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse
- DevOps & Tools: We experiment with cutting-edge tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Raycast – and encourage you to push for the best setup for your work
- Lead with impact: Guide your team in making smart, high-value technical decisions
- Stay hands-on: Spend ~70% of your time coding and contributing to the codebase
- Mentor & grow: Support your engineers through code reviews, feedback, and regular 1:1s
- Innovate: Bring new ideas to automate workflows, improve recommendations, and delight our users
- Own the process: Drive your work from concept to delivery — and see the results in real time
- Boost product quality: Turn feedback and usage data into meaningful improvements
- Shape the developer experience: Initiate projects to improve quality, delivery speed, and collaboration
Our take
As businesses become more data driven, privacy concerns mean that regulations on the proper handling of that data have also increased. The volume of data flowing through most modern companies is extremely hard to manage manually while remaining compliant to laws such the GDPR, which can leave companies liable to fines of up to 20 million Euros per breach. This puts businesses in a position where they have to spend their resources on data compliance instead of their core product.
Kertos exists to fix this with a platform that is able to automatically manage data privacy in a compliant way across an entire business. Able to integrate with most major data silos, databases and SaaS applications, it is capable of yielding up to 80% savings on resources compared to manual privacy operations. This has grown it a customer base including the likes of Gorillas, McMakler and Wellster HealthTech.
In 2023, Kertos raised funds, which is being used to scale the company's operations and invest in product development. Going forward, Kertos will also aim to enter into strategic partnerships to grow its marketing reach and expand its customer base. With an innovative, first-in-class product and significant investor backing, Kertos is well poised to grow into a significant business in the privacy automation space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2025
$16.3m
SERIES A
May 2023
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $23.4m
Company benefits
- A generous share package in addition to a fixed salary and variable salary based on ARR
- A dynamic and fast-paced work environment
- The chance to work with a cutting-edge technology that is changing the way data privacy operations are managed
- A supportive and collaborative team culture
Company HQ
Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany
Leadership
Dr. Kilian Schmidt
(Co-founder & CEO)Was previously an advisor to Groillas and Director of Legal & Public Policy for TIER Mobility. Before that was Senior Legal Counsel at Home24.
Alexander Prams
(Co-founder & CTO)Also a Co-founder of Aitaro. Previously was AI Tech Executive at Motius and a freeland C#/.Net Developer.
Johannes Hussak
(Co-founder)Also co-founded HuGe Innovations and Aitaro. Before that was Energy & Innovation Tech Executive and Project Owner at Motius.
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