Berlin tech job
User Growth Tech Lead in Berlin at Dott
Dott is hiring for a full-time Backend role in Berlin, Germany. Review the role details, skills, seniority, and company links before applying.
BackendOn-siteFull-timeLead
Skills mentioned
JavaTypeScriptNode.jsGoKotlinSwiftGCPPostgreSQLgRPCSparkBigQuery
Role details
Company
Dott
Location
Berlin, Germany
Work mode
On-site
About this role
THIS IS US
Dott is the European champion of shared micromobility. Created through the merger of operators TIER and Dott in March 2024, the company decided to move forward under the single app and brand Dott. With the mission of moving us closer, Dott facilitates easy urban travel, reduces pollution in cities, and decreases reliance on cars. Today, Dott deploys 200,000 shared vehicles in 400 cities and 20 countries across Europe and the Middle East. The 12 million users have generated over 500 million rides so far. The team is led by CEO Maxim Romain and Executive Chairman Henri Moissinac. For more information, visit www.ridedott.com.
THE ROLE AND YOUR IMPACT AT DOTT
Full-time, permament and hybrid (3 days/week in the office).
About The Team
User Growth owns the moment a download becomes a rider. We turn installs — driven by Marketing, Brand, and Partnerships — into Riders who create an account, take their first Dott ride, and come back for a second. We work cross-functionally and run experiments in days, not months.
The role
You'll be the tech lead manager for User Growth: hands-on (about 70% of your time) across the stack, backend-heavy, leading a small team of engineers, and the single point of technical accountability for the health of the onboarding-to-second-ride funnel. You'll own the backend of the onboarding experience and build the experimentation and attribution capability that lets the whole team build and iterate fast.
You'll work alongside a Product Manager and with Marketing, CRM, Commercial and Payments. A lot of what you ship depends on teams you don't manage, so you'll get things done through influence as much as through code.
What you'll do
More installs become accounts. More accounts take a first ride. More first riders come back. You own the technical levers behind each step and how fast the team can test new ideas.
What you’ll need
TypeScript/Node.js services talking over gRPC/ConnectRPC, running on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), with PostgreSQL, Firestore and BigQuery. You don't need to know all of it on day one.
THIS MAY INSPIRE YOU
In case you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please inform us, so we can ensure a smooth application process.
If we could spark your interest and you want to change mobility for good with us, apply now and let us know why you’re the one for the job! We encourage everyone to apply and grow with us. Even if you may not tick all the boxes of the requirements, we are happy to hear about the value you can add to the team. We are all learners!
We are looking forward to your application!
At Dott, we respect fundamental privacy rights. We process your personal data in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). For a clear explanation of how we handle and process your personal data, please read our Candidate Privacy Statement.
Dott is the European champion of shared micromobility. Created through the merger of operators TIER and Dott in March 2024, the company decided to move forward under the single app and brand Dott. With the mission of moving us closer, Dott facilitates easy urban travel, reduces pollution in cities, and decreases reliance on cars. Today, Dott deploys 200,000 shared vehicles in 400 cities and 20 countries across Europe and the Middle East. The 12 million users have generated over 500 million rides so far. The team is led by CEO Maxim Romain and Executive Chairman Henri Moissinac. For more information, visit www.ridedott.com.
THE ROLE AND YOUR IMPACT AT DOTT
Full-time, permament and hybrid (3 days/week in the office).
About The Team
User Growth owns the moment a download becomes a rider. We turn installs — driven by Marketing, Brand, and Partnerships — into Riders who create an account, take their first Dott ride, and come back for a second. We work cross-functionally and run experiments in days, not months.
The role
You'll be the tech lead manager for User Growth: hands-on (about 70% of your time) across the stack, backend-heavy, leading a small team of engineers, and the single point of technical accountability for the health of the onboarding-to-second-ride funnel. You'll own the backend of the onboarding experience and build the experimentation and attribution capability that lets the whole team build and iterate fast.
You'll work alongside a Product Manager and with Marketing, CRM, Commercial and Payments. A lot of what you ship depends on teams you don't manage, so you'll get things done through influence as much as through code.
What you'll do
- Own the path to the first ride: the backend behind sign-up, verification, ID checks, referrals and promo codes, and city-policy acceptance. It's every step a new rider goes through before they unlock a vehicle.
- Build the growth toolkit: experimentation and feature flags, install and deep-link attribution, and instrumentation from install to second ride.
- Orchestrate the mobile surface: translate funnel priorities into client work with our mobile engineers, own the contract between backend and client.
- Partner cross-functionally: turn growth hypotheses from Product, Marketing, CRM, and Commercial into shippable experiments, and make sure installs from various channels convert cleanly downstream.
- Develop the team: coach and grow engineers, and set the bar with pragmatic architecture, tight feedback loops and a bias toward action.
More installs become accounts. More accounts take a first ride. More first riders come back. You own the technical levers behind each step and how fast the team can test new ideas.
What you’ll need
- Experience owning a consumer conversion funnel, with proof your work moved the metric
- Senior backend experience in a typed language. TypeScript/Node.js is ideal, but Go, Kotlin or Java are fine if you're happy to switch.
- Fluency with gRPC (or a track record of picking up a new RPC paradigm fast).
- Experience across both relational (PostgreSQL) and document (Firestore-style NoSQL) data models, with the judgment to know which fits which problem.
- A habit of treating instrumentation as part of "done": you design the events and then use the data.
- Read enough Swift or Kotlin to review mobile work and own the API contract.
- Worked with attribution and deep-linking tools like Adjust, AppsFlyer or Branch.
- Integrated identity, OTP or messaging vendors.
TypeScript/Node.js services talking over gRPC/ConnectRPC, running on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), with PostgreSQL, Firestore and BigQuery. You don't need to know all of it on day one.
THIS MAY INSPIRE YOU
- 🏢 Hybrid work: 3 days in the office in Berlin, 2 days from home
- 💻 Our one-time home office bonus upon your start to create your ideal home office setup we
- 📚 Our annual learning & development budget
- 🛴 Our rides program with availability to opt in and opt out to ride our e-scooters & e-bikes
- ☀️ Our partnership for mental health at work, with free 1-on-1 video counselling, self-guided development, and more
- 🌴 Our sabbatical program
- ⏳ Our flexible hours and 1-month remote working option
- 🏳️🌈 Our diversity and inclusivity initiatives and programs
- 🎉 Our public holiday swap, with which you can switch two public holidays to another day
- 🌍 Our voluntary day off for charity work
- benefits may vary depending on country and position
In case you are living with disabilities, chronic illness, or neurodiversity, please inform us, so we can ensure a smooth application process.
If we could spark your interest and you want to change mobility for good with us, apply now and let us know why you’re the one for the job! We encourage everyone to apply and grow with us. Even if you may not tick all the boxes of the requirements, we are happy to hear about the value you can add to the team. We are all learners!
We are looking forward to your application!
At Dott, we respect fundamental privacy rights. We process your personal data in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). For a clear explanation of how we handle and process your personal data, please read our Candidate Privacy Statement.