People Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead & Grow: Directly manage a team of software engineers, fostering their career development through continuous coaching, constructive feedback, and personalized growth plans. You will learn about your team’s strengths and growth areas through day-to-day project work, using that context to provide highly relevant and impactful feedback and mentorship.

• Balance Priorities: Consciously balance hands-on technical contributions with dedicated time for people management. We provide active mentorship and clear performance expectations that value both domains equally to help you grow as a leader.

• Build Culture: Cultivate a positive and inclusive team environment where communication is candid, collaboration is seamless, and engineers feel motivated and empowered.

• Align & Empower: Ensure your engineers understand the "why" behind their work, connecting their contributions directly to product strategy and customer impact. Delegate tasks effectively, define responsibilities, and monitor progress to ensure team success.

• Hire & Onboard: Play a key role in hiring, and onboarding new engineering talent to continuously raise the bar for your team.

Technical & Product Strategy

• Own Technical Decisions: Drive and own the technical decisions within your team, ensuring they align with the broader product strategy and long-term technical vision, as well as the right balance between technical excellence and speed of delivery.

• Partner with Product & Design: Act as the primary technical partner for your Product Manager and Product Designer counterparts. Engage deeply in the opportunity discovery and solution design processes to provide technical insights, assess feasibility, and propose innovative solutions.

• Coordinate & Collaborate: Work closely with the other Tech Lead Managers and the Head of Engineering to align on shared objectives, tackle concerns affecting different teams, and ensure a cohesive engineering standard across the organization.

• Proven hands-on software engineering experience, preferably with expertise in relevant core technologies (e.g., Java, JavaScript, React).

• Demonstrated experience in people management, including coaching, mentorship, and performance management.

• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles and the ability to translate customer needs and business strategy into technical solutions.

• Experience coordinating cross-team technical initiatives and managing technical dependencies.

• Ability to act as a connector between technical and non-technical stakeholders, clearly translating needs and challenges.

• Commitment to building strong working relationships and to writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Proactive approach to problem-solving, continuous improvement, and removing blockers for the team.

• Ability to engage in constructive conflict, build consensus, and “disagree and commit” when needed.

• Exceptional communication skills, with a practice of actively giving and seeking constructive feedback.

• Belief in the value of diverse perspectives and commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team environment.

The salary range for this position is € 68K to € 77K* gross/year and we look at factors like your experience and individual qualifications to determine our offer. Additional benefits include budgets for education & wellbeing, and professional development, remote work and home office, very flexible working hours without core hours, paid time for volunteer work, access to mental health support, tax-friendly bike leasing, and an endless stream of really great coffee. We also make our best possible offer upfront - no games.

*This range represents our anticipated 2026 salary bands. Final details will be discussed and confirmed during the interview process.

We look forward to receiving your application! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact our team at jobs@cropster.com.

At this point, Cropster will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Austria for this opening. For Non-EU applicants: please attach your work permit to your application.