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Smart Host

<div><div><div>Berlin</div><div>
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</div><div>Full-Time</div><div>
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</div><div>ASAP</div></div><div></div>
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Help Smart Host scale a cloud-native hospitality platform shaping hotel journeys. Own Kubernetes, Terraform &amp; reliability. Curious? Read the full role.</p><br>
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DevOps Lead (m/w/d)</b></h4></div><div><div><div>
Berlin</div><div>
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</div><div>Full-Time</div><div>
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</div><div>ASAP</div></div><div></div><div><div><p><b>
Attention: Berlin based position!</b></p><p>
Smart Host is a B2B SaaS platform helping hotels turn fragmented guest and booking data into actionable insights.</p><p>
For 2026, we're taking the platform to the next level by building a broader hospitality ecosystem that connects selected technology partners to improve the guest experience across the entire hotel journey.</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
What you'll do</b></h2><p>
As our DevOps Lead, you will own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability of our cloud-native platform, and lead how we build, deploy, and operate software as we scale. You will report directly to the CTO. This is a technical leadership role with a meaningful hands-on component: roughly 60% of your time on infrastructure engineering, automation, and technical decision-making, and 40% on team leadership, mentoring, planning, and cross-functional collaboration.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Your tasks in a nutshell:</b></h3><ul><li><b>
Technical Leadership:</b> Lead and mentor engineers on infrastructure and operational best practices, supporting a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous learning.</li><li><b>
Infrastructure &amp; Delivery Ownership:</b> Own our GCP infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and our GitOps delivery model (Flux CD, Helm, Kubernetes), making releases fast, safe, and boring.</li><li><b>
Reliability &amp; Observability:</b> Drive our observability practice across Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Cloud Monitoring, turning alerts and dashboards into real reliability and reducing toil through automation.</li><li><b>
Manage Complexity:</b> Identify and reduce infrastructure tech debt, lead the evolution of our IaC strategy, and drive our migration to a managed secrets solution and stronger platform security.</li><li><b>
AI-Augmented Engineering Culture:</b> Champion the team's use of modern AI development tools, helping engineers integrate them into their daily workflow while maintaining high standards for quality and operational integrity.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
What you bring</b></h3><ul><li><b>
Relevant Leadership Experience:</b> You have 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years leading engineers through mentoring, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and team development.</li><li><b>
Cloud Native:</b> You have deep, hands-on experience running production workloads on a major cloud (GCP preferred) with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.</li><li><b>
Infrastructure as Code:</b> You are highly proficient with Terraform and treat infrastructure as a first-class, version-controlled codebase.</li><li><b>
CI/CD &amp; GitOps:</b> You have built and operated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) and understand GitOps delivery (Flux CD is a strong plus).</li><li><b>
Observability:</b> You have run production monitoring and alerting stacks (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent) and know what good reliability looks like.</li><li><b>
Distributed Tracing:</b> You have hands-on experience with distributed tracing and APM (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or similar) and can introduce it to deepen observability across our services.</li><li><b>
Systems Thinker:</b> You understand the fundamentals of networking, distributed computing, and asynchronous messaging, and you automate with Bash and Python before repeating yourself.</li><li><b>
Ownership Mindset:</b> You take responsibility beyond your immediate task and dig deep into the stack to find and fix the source of a problem.</li><li><b>
AI-Forward Mindset:</b> You're hands-on with AI engineering tools (Claude Code, Copilot, agentic workflows) and have opinions on using them well. You see them as a force multiplier for senior engineers, not a gimmick, and you have a point of view on what they're good at and where they still fall short.</li><li><b>
Fluency in English:</b> You communicate fluently in English, both verbally and in writing.</li><li><b>
Entitlement to work in Germany:</b> You are legally entitled to work in Germany and do not require visa sponsorship. This is a hybrid role based in our Berlin office, so we can only consider candidates located in or willing to relocate to the Berlin area.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Why Smart Host</b></h2><ul><li><b>
Real impact:</b> You will have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and the growth of our engineering team.</li><li><b>
Hybrid in Berlin:</b> Work hybrid from our Berlin office, combining focused remote days with regular in-person time for workshops, planning, and collaboration.</li><li><b>
Team culture:</b> Join a diverse, multicultural team with an open office culture and a few four-legged colleagues.</li><li><b>
Smart Host Days - Team Travel:</b> Once a year, we take the whole team on a trip abroad. The trip combines team bonding, training, and the chance to live our mission: making vacation smart.</li></ul><p>
Sounds good, right? Reach out and be part of the Smart Host Team!</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>

DevOps Lead (m/w/d)

<div><div><div>Berlin</div><div>
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</div><div>Full-Time</div><div>
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</div><div>ASAP</div></div><div></div>
<p>
Lead a team of engineers, shape the architecture of a fast-growing hospitality platform, and drive AI-powered engineering with direct impact alongside the CTO.</p><br>
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Backend Team Lead (f/m/d)</b></h4></div><div><div><div>
Berlin</div><div>
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</div><div>Full-Time</div><div>
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</div><div>ASAP</div></div><div></div><div><div><p><b>
We are Smart Host!
</b></p><p>We aren&rsquo;t just another B2B SaaS company - we are the <b>engine behind the next era of hospitality.</b></p><p>
Smart Host is a B2B SaaS platform helping hotels turn fragmented guest and booking data into actionable insights.</p><p>
For 2026, we&rsquo;re taking the platform to the next level by building a broader hospitality ecosystem that connects selected technology partners to improve the guest experience across the entire hotel journey.</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
What you'll do</b></h2><p>
As our Backend Team Lead, you will lead the engineering efforts behind our core hospitality platform and directly manage a team of 4&ndash;5 backend engineers. You will report directly to the CTO. This is a technical leadership role with a meaningful hands-on component: you will spend roughly 40% of your time on backend engineering, architecture, code reviews, and technical decision-making, and 60% on team leadership, mentoring, planning, and cross-functional collaboration. You will help ensure our architecture scales as our customer base grows.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Your tasks in a nutshell:</b></h3><ul><li>
Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, supporting a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous learning.
</li><li>Architectural Ownership: Own the backend services, APIs, integrations, and business logic behind our core hospitality platform, ensuring the system is built for scale and resilience.</li><li>
Manage Complexity: Identify and reduce technical debt, improve existing systems, and rethink architecture when necessary.</li><li>
AI-Augmented Engineering Culture: Champion the team's use of modern AI development tools, helping engineers integrate them into their daily workflow while maintaining high standards for code quality and architectural integrity.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
What you bring</b></h3><ul><li>
Relevant Leadership Experience: You have 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineers through mentoring, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and team development.</li><li>
Strong Java Background: You are highly proficient in Java and have deep experience with the Spring Boot ecosystem.</li><li>
Cloud Native: You have experience with Kubernetes and modern backend tooling, including Helm, Terraform, and Gradle.</li><li>
Systems Thinker: You understand the fundamentals of networking, distributed computing, and asynchronous messaging.</li><li>
Ownership Mindset: You take responsibility beyond your immediate task and dig deep into the stack to find and fix the source of a problem.</li><li>
Pragmatic Engineer: You care about clean code and refactoring but understand the balance between perfection and time-to-market in a startup.</li><li>
AI-Forward Mindset: You're hands-on with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, agentic workflows) and have opinions on using them well. You see them as a force multiplier for senior engineers, not a gimmick, and you have a point of view on what they're good at and where they still fall short.</li><li>
Fluency in English: You communicate fluently in English, both verbally and in writing. German skills are an advantage.</li><li>
Entitlement to work in Germany: You are legally entitled to work in Germany and do not require visa sponsorship. For legal hiring reasons, we can only consider candidates based in Germany for this role.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Why Smart Host</b></h2><ul><li>
Real impact: You will have direct influence on technical decisions, architecture, and the growth of our backend team.</li><li>
Hybrid or remote within Germany: Work hybrid from our Berlin office or remotely from within Germany. We occasionally bring the team together in Berlin for workshops, planning, and collaboration.
</li><li>Team culture: Join a diverse, multicultural team with an open office culture and a few four-legged colleagues.</li><li>
Smart Host Days - Team Travel: Once a year, we take the whole team on a trip abroad. The trip combines team bonding, training, and the chance to live our mission: making vacation smart.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>

Backend Team Lead (f/m/d)

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