Tech Lead / CTO (m/w/d)

The opportunity Tax advisory has everything automation needs: structured data, recurring work, clear rules. Yet the profession never made the leap, because recurring does not mean uniform – every case has its own twist, and the law keeps moving. Reasoning resolves exactly this variance. That is why the window is open now. At the same time the market is being reordered: four in ten tax advisors in Germany leave the profession within ten years, and many of their firms will find no successor. Vogel acquires established advisory firms and develops them further. Several thousand mid-sized companies trust us with their tax, accounting and strategic matters, and every acquisition adds to that base. We have already produced our own annual financial statements with AI. Today, that is one person with a tool. Turning it into a capability of the whole company is the job. You own the technology that makes Vogel AI-first: the data layer above DATEV, the agent infrastructure on top, and the control layer without which nothing in this profession may go live. You decide the architecture and the stack of what we build. You report to and work directly with Moritz Vogel. Decisions are made in minutes, not months. What you'll do Architecture above DATEV Build the data layer above DATEV. DATEV stays the system of record (for now); the value is created in the layer above it – designed to outlive the system beneath. Choose and build the agent infrastructure: framework, orchestration, versioning, obs