Technical Leader

Grape Up is a consulting & technology company that helps enterprises build and modernize their most critical applications, combining cloud-native engineering with applied AI. They specialize in connected vehicle platforms and software-defined vehicle architectures for premium automotive manufacturers, processing telemetry from fleets of hundreds of thousands of vehicles in production. They also work across aviation and manufacturing, applying cloud-native engineering to mission-critical, regulated systems. Additionally, they run large-scale legacy modernization programs for mission-critical enterprise systems, powered by their in-house GenAI/agentic platform used for code transformation, documentation generation, and test generation on multi-million-line codebases.

• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including 3+ years designing architecture for production systems.
• Strong hands-on background in Java or Kotlin (Spring / Spring Boot) on enterprise-scale microservice systems.
• Practical production experience with at least one public cloud (preferably AWS, also Azure or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Comfort with distributed systems including messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or MQTT), REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on frontend coding ability, able to ship production features in React and TypeScript.
• Experience owning at least one greenfield build or major re-architecture.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers (tech lead, team lead, or similar).
• Very good spoken and written English (C1).
• Proactivity, ownership, strong presentation skills, influence without authority, and business fluency.

• Take a new engagement from a blank page to a solid, production-grade platform.
• Own end-to-end technical architecture for new client engagements, from discovery to production rollout.
• Act as primary technical counterpart for clients, translating business goals into technical design and running technical workshops.
• Proactively identify risks, technical debt, and better alternatives.
• Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams, setting technical direction and reviewing key design decisions.
• Contribute to presales and scoping including effort estimation, solution outlines, and technical input for commercial proposals.
• Stay hands-on with critical prototypes, spikes, and architecturally significant code.

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