
FREENOW · Berlin
Location: Come and join us in Hamburg or Berlin! Following Lyft’s acquisition of Freenow, we are looking for a Senior TPM to lead the technical workstreams tha...
Location: Come and join us in Hamburg or Berlin!
Following Lyft’s acquisition of Freenow, we are looking for a Senior TPM to lead the technical workstreams that get us to Day 1
readiness — the period between signing and closing — and to set up the integration that follows. This is a high-stakes,
high-visibility role reporting into the EU Tech Leader, with direct exposure to Freenow and Lyft leadership.
You will be the single point of accountability for technical Day 1 readiness. That means making sure every employee, every office,
and every critical system is ready to operate underFreenow by Lyft from the moment the deal closes — and that the integration
stream is up and running the day after. You will also be the TPM accountable for the integration of future acquisitions Freenow
makes.
This is not a role for someone who wants to administer a project plan. You are expected to be technically credible, opinionated,
and comfortable holding senior people to account across IT, Security, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, People, and Finance. You
make decisions when others stall, escalate cleanly when you can’t, and keep the whole machine moving.
every workstream against it, and call the go/no-go on technical readiness for Day 1.
hardware provisioning and re-imaging, and office setup including network, VPN, Wi-Fi, meeting rooms, and physical access. Make
sure nobody shows up on Day 1 unable to work.
shareholder’s requirements on Day 1 — access controls, data handling, audit trails, vendor relationships.
staffed, and producing output from day one of the integration phase. Set the operating cadence, dependencies, and escalation
paths.
Finance together on a single plan. Push hard on dependencies. Surface risks before they become incidents.
steering committee. Honest, concise, decision-oriented.
Freenow acquires a company.
separation, integration, or carve-out programmes — ideally including a Day 1 cutover under a new owner.
push back credibly, and you understand what it takes to operate large-scale, 24x7 production systems.
and VPN, SaaS provisioning, source control and CI/CD tooling, cloud account structures.
cultures.
Slack thread, and adjust the register without losing precision.
needing a reporting line to do it.
structured.
Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin,
gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.
Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our
multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers
can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public
transport within a single app.
In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides
across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation
for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have
fun. Ready for your next ride?
Location: Come and join us in Berlin! Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative marketing team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Are you ready for your next ride? Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to build the intelligent systems that power our support teams, drivers and passengers. You will drive the development of reliable and scalable backend services that bring our AI asset features to life end-to-end. Be ready to join a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun, while building great features and products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE: * Architect, build, and maintain robust backend services powering AI-driven support flows, from intent routing to automated case resolution. * Integrate and orchestrate LLMs to power AI-assisted support experiences for drivers and passengers. * Run testing and evaluations for AI agents, defining test scenarios, using evaluation tooling, and validating agent behaviour manually and at scale. * Ensure AI systems are observable and reliable through monitoring of latency, fallback rates, and output quality. * Own features end-to-end, from concept through to deployment and performance monitoring, partnering with engineers, product managers, and support teams to deliver meaningful, user-centered solutions. * Experiment with AI-enhanced tools and features to elevate our products and engineering practices. * Bring your ideas to life and help shape how we work, grow, and innovate as a team. * Actively engage in our engineering communities to share insights, mentor other engineers, and contribute to a culture built on transparency, continuous learning, and mutual respect. Our Techstack: Kotlin | TypeScript | Spring | React | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka & more ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE: * Strong hands-on backend development experience, with proficiency in Kotlin and Spring. * Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, Kibana). * Experience integrating and working with LLMs (e.g. Gemini, GPT, Claude) in production systems, with familiarity with AI agent concepts, tool use and intent classification. * Experience with intent testing and evaluation of AI agents using evaluation tools and frameworks. * Owner mentality, you care deeply about quality, continuous improvement and technical mentorship. * You thrive in a self-organized, agile team that values autonomy, open communication, and purpose-driven work. * You bring creativity and a problem-solving mindset to technical challenges. * You actively use AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as part of your day-to-day development workflow. * You communicate clearly and confidently in English, both written and spoken. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL: * Flexible working arrangements * LinkedIn Learning * Sabbatical & special leave policies * WeRoad partnership * Birthday, 24th + 31st December off * Short term EU work policy * Mobility Credit * Health Insurance * Employee assistance program ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION: Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT FREENOW: Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?
WHY THIS ROLE As our Director of Site Reliability Engineering, reporting to our VP of Platform Engineering, you'll own the core infrastructure layers that everything at Doctolib runs on: cloud infrastructure, database operations, network infrastructure, and observability. You will also lead the Doctolib Operations Center (DOC) and drive a decisive shift from reactive operations to a proactive, world-class reliability culture. This is a rare opportunity to shape the infrastructure backbone of Europe's leading healthtech company, at a moment when Doctolib is actively expanding multi-cloud capabilities, scaling to new countries, and building the reliability culture that will define the next decade of healthcare innovation. Why this is an extraordinary challenge * Real stakes, every day. When Doctolib is down, consultations don't happen, diagnoses are delayed, care journeys are interrupted. The infrastructure you build is a direct lever on patient outcomes — in a world where 8 of the top 10 causes of death in Europe are preventable. * A once-in-a-generation platform transition. Multi-cloud, monolith modularisation, international expansion — all happening simultaneously. You won't inherit a finished platform. You'll define what it becomes. * Reliability as the competitive moat. As we scale AI health companions, automate clinical workflows, and launch across Europe, the speed and resilience of the platform directly determines how fast 700+ engineers can ship innovations that change healthcare. * A cultural build, not just a technical one. The incident response culture, observability standards, and operational ownership model you establish here will shape how Doctolib engineers work for years to come. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Build and run a world-class SRE org of 25+ engineers across Cloud Infrastructure, Database & Storage, Network Infrastructure, Observability Tooling, and the Doctolib Operations Center * Own the infrastructure strategy and roadmap — cloud, database, network, observability — and deliver against company OKRs * Lead the Doctolib Operations Center: set incident response standards, drive MTTR reduction, embed blameless post-mortem culture across engineering * Architect and execute our multi-cloud strategy — reducing vendor lock-in, cutting migration costs, and enabling international expansion * Own network infrastructure at scale: load balancing, CDN/WAF, VPCs, peering, zero-trust networking across a high-traffic, multi-country platform * Drive observability as a product — give 700+ engineers true visibility into system health and turn observability maturity into an operational excellence lever * Lead from the front as a senior technical voice in the Platform org and broader Tech leadership team WHO YOU ARE * 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading managers and running infrastructure or SRE organisations at scale * Track record of taking SRE practices from reactive to proactive — with measurable reductions in incidents and MTTR * Strong multi-cloud and network infrastructure experience: load balancing, CDN/WAF, VPCs, peering, at high-traffic scale * Deep database operations background: large-scale transactional systems (PostgreSQL, Aurora), streaming/CDC (Kafka), data layer FinOps * Experience building observability platforms that give teams genuine visibility — metrics, logs, traces, alerting * Sharp process thinking: SLOs, error budgets, incident management, blameless post-mortems * Outcome-driven: you track reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering velocity as business metrics, not just technical ones * Strong communicator and influencer at executive level — equally credible with senior engineers and business stakeholders * Builder of high-performing, people-first engineering cultures * Fluent in English; comfortable in fast-paced, international environments * You recognise yourself in our playbook values Bonus Points If You Have… * Experience in healthcare, regulated, or high-compliance industries (HDS, ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, data sovereignty) * Familiarity with our stack: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Go, Python, React, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Datadog, GitHub Actions * French language proficiency * Experience with AI-augmented infrastructure tooling or ML platform operations * M&A or post-acquisition infrastructure integration experience WHAT WE OFFER * A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib * 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days) * Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy * Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz * Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period) * Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth * The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much more * Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care * Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club * A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode * Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit * For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights. #LI-DB1
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the OREO (Observability Reliability Engineering Obsession) team in Platform Engineering. As an Engineering Manager, your mission will be to lead the Reliability & Observability team and drive the evolution of Doctolib's observability platform, supporting the exponential growth of Doctolib services while building and empowering a world-class SRE team. Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams. You will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers who are responsible for shaping Doctolib's observability strategy and ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of people management, technical leadership, and strategic planning with a particular focus on building organizational capabilities around logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. Your team also owns and operates critical transversal services that enable secure, scalable infrastructure management across the organization, including HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and Terraform Enterprise for infrastructure as code. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to: People Leadership: * Lead, coach, and grow a team of Site Reliability Engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression * Create a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety within the team * Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations * Recruit, onboard, and retain top SRE talent aligned with Doctolib's mission and values Technical Strategy: * Partner with SREs and senior engineers to define and evolve the observability strategy across the platform, focusing on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting * Own the strategy and evolution of critical transversal services including HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise * Drive prioritization and roadmap planning for large-scale reliability and observability initiatives * Ensure alignment between team objectives and broader engineering and business goals * Advocate for and allocate resources toward reducing technical debt and improving developer experience Operational Excellence: * Own the team's on-call experience and contribute to the incident response processes, ensuring sustainable practices and continuous improvement * Ensure high availability and reliability of transversal services that are critical to the entire engineering organization * Lead postmortem reviews and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurring issues Cross-functional Collaboration: * Work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and architects to align observability capabilities with product and platform needs * Partner with security and infrastructure teams to evolve secrets management and IaC practices across the organization * Represent the OREO team in engineering leadership forums, architectural reviews, and strategic planning sessions * Foster strong partnerships with software engineering teams to improve instrumentation quality and adoption of observability best practices ABOUT OUR TECH ENVIRONMENT * Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components. * Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native. * We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here! WHO YOU ARE Before you read on — if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply. * You have at least 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, with a strong technical background in cloud-native environments (preferably AWS, GCP, and/or Kubernetes-based) * You have 3+ years of engineering management experience, leading technical teams (ideally SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams) * You have deep understanding of observability tooling and architecture (Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Thanos, Datadog) * You have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu) and secrets management systems (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) * You have proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership, able to mentor engineers, review technical designs, and guide architectural decisions Now it would be fantastic if you: * Have experience scaling SRE or platform teams in fast-growing, high-traffic environments * Have background in designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines * Have hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault and Terraform Enterprise in production environments * Have hands-on experience with backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby) * Have experience driving cultural and technical transformations WHAT WE OFFER * Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children * ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib * Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care * For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support * Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy * Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class * Up to 14 days of RTT * A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class * Lunch voucher with Swile card THE INTERVIEW PROCESS * 30-min phone screen with a Tech Recruiter * 1h30 technical interview (SRE System Design & Architecture) * 1h15 behavioral interview (Leadership & People Management) * 1h30 Engineering Management case study (team scenarios, prioritization, and conflict resolution) * 1h manager interview with Senior Engineering Leadership * At least one reference check JOB DETAILS * Permanent position * Full-time * Berlin * Start date: as soon as possible If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights.