Integration Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Establish, lead, mentor, and expand a newly created engineering team dedicated to centralizing third-party integrations and APIs.

• Conduct regular code evaluations and architectural discussions while ensuring adherence to security protocols and coding best practices.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable RESTful endpoints, webhooks, and middleware applications.

• Standardize integration frameworks and developer tools, including SDKs, webhooks, and API wrappers.

• Oversee data synchronization, schema architecture, and asynchronous message processing for high-volume enterprise event traffic.

• Ensure uptime, error handling, rate-limiting resilience, and comprehensive monitoring across third-party connectors.

• Collaborate with strategic technology partners to co-design integration workflows.

• Establish integration standards and documentation for external developer partners utilizing the vivenu API ecosystem.

• Monitor API throughput and performance during high-concurrency event launches and optimize for bottlenecks.

• Lead the integration team in building, maintaining, and scaling platform integrations across distributors, insurance partners, and app marketplaces.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on web APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.

• More than 2 years in a technical leadership or team lead role, including sprint planning, line management, and delivery.

• Extensive technical expertise in Go/TypeScript, Node.js, or similar modern backend languages.

• Proven experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven architectures, including Webhooks, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and WebSockets.

• Experience integrating major distribution channels, insurance tools, or enterprise CRMs such as GetYourGuide, HubSpot, Salesforce, SAP, Stripe, or Adyen.

• Practical experience with GCP/AWS and Docker/Kubernetes.

• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, API Keys, and rate-limiting techniques.

• Experience in high-throughput, latency-sensitive environments such as e-commerce, ticketing, fintech, or real-time transactional platforms.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Self-motivated individual with a founder mindset who excels in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Experience in high-growth SaaS or B2B platforms, large-scale e-commerce, AdTech, or MarTech.

• Experience in building or managing a third-party developer portal/app marketplace is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engaging work in live entertainment technology.

• Sustainable, profitable, VC-backed growth with ongoing investment in people, products, and a long-term vision.

• Collaboration with a global team of over 160 professionals across six international offices.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace dedicated to empowerment, growth, and success.

• Opportunities to collaborate with recognized technology leaders and award-winning founders.

• Full-time employment.