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Headquarters: Frankfurt, Germany
URL: https://www.lightupnet.de
Technical Product Lead for Innovative Telecom Services - 100% Remote - 6 hours per day
Creating Telecom-centric Web Services
You would work 6 hours per day, Monday to Friday. Freelancer contract. The monthly salary is 2000 EUR.
We are a small, 100% remote telecommunications services company based in Germany and Switzerland established in 1998. Our team currently consists of 10 people working remotely across different countries and time zones.
We build and operate innovative web-based products in the telecommunications and ISP space for retail, business and enterprise clients and telecom operators. Our projects sit at the intersection of telecom infrastructure, customer-facing web applications, automation, billing, provisioning, and operational processes.
We are now looking for a Technical Product Lead to take ownership of translating complex telecom product ideas into clear technical concepts, development tasks, and working software.
The role
You will work directly with the General Manager and act as the bridge between business ideas, telecom/ISP knowledge, product requirements, and software development.
Your job is to make sure that ideas become clear specifications, that developers know exactly what to build, and that projects move forward with quality, speed, and technical sanity.
Responsibilities
* Translate high-level product and business ideas into clear technical concepts, specifications, user stories, and development tickets
* Lead and coordinate a small remote developer team
* Break down complex telecom/ISP workflows into practical web application features
* Define MVPs, priorities, milestones, and delivery plans
* Review developer output from a functional and technical perspective
* Challenge unclear requirements, weak architecture, and poor implementation choices
* Ensure that web applications are built with scalability, maintainability, security, and operational reality in mind
* Help design customer portals, admin backends, provisioning flows, billing-related workflows, APIs, dashboards, and internal tools
* Identify technical risks, blockers, dependencies, and missing pieces early
* Keep projects moving without unnecessary meetings or corporate overhead
* Report progress, risks, and decisions directly to the General Manager
What we are looking for
You should be a technical generalist with a strong product sense.
Ideally, you come from one or more of these backgrounds:
* Technical Product Lead
* Engineering Lead
* Tech Lead
* Solution Architect
* Senior DevOps Engineer
* Senior Sysadmin
* ISP / Telecom Engineer
* Technical company builder
* Fractional CTO
You do not necessarily need to be the main developer yourself, but you must understand enough to lead developers, evaluate technical decisions, and know when something is overbuilt, underbuilt, unclear, or simply wrong.
Required experience
* Strong understanding of web applications, APIs, databases, backend systems, and software delivery
* Profound knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, other distros) environments
* Good understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing, IPv4/IPv6, firewalls, VPNs and related infrastructure
* Experience working with developers and turning requirements into clear technical tasks
* Ability to structure complex systems into manageable modules, milestones, and deliverables
* Practical understanding of security, monitoring, logging, reliability, and operational requirements
* Experience working in remote teams
* Strong written communication skills in English
* Perfect English grammar without using AI
* Ability to work independently and take ownership
Nice to have
* Experience in telecommunications, ISP, hosting, datacenter, VoIP, SIP, cloud infrastructure, or B2B SaaS
* Understanding of Linux environments, many years of experience with Linux/GNU command line tools from a time before AI, Python, Bash and/or PHP or all of them, other programming/scripting languages, Proxmox, Virtual Machines, Apache/nginx, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, server hardware & networking gear, IPMI / KVM-over-IP, BGP, IP address management, CIDR, provisioning systems, billing workflows, customer portals, network automation
* Experience building or managing self-service platforms for customers or internal teams
* Experience with small companies, startups, founder-led teams, or distributed freelancer teams
* Hands-on development experience, even if you no longer want to code full-time
* German language skills are a plus, but not mandatory
What makes this role different
This role is for someone who enjoys the messy middle between product, technology, business, and execution.
You should be comfortable taking a rough idea like:
“We need a customer portal for managing telecom services, provisioning, billing, and support workflows.”
and turning it into:
* a clear product concept
* a technical architecture
* implementation phases
* developer tickets
* acceptance criteria
* priorities
* risks
* delivery checkpoints
We need someone who understands what should be built, why it matters, and how to get developers to build it properly.
Working style
* 100% Remote
* Freelancer agreement
* 6 hours per day work-time (Monday to Friday)
* Monthly salary: 2000 EUR
* Direct collaboration with the General Manager
* Small team, fast decisions, low bureaucracy
* Focus on practical delivery, not corporate process
You may be a good fit if you...
* Have a strong technical background but also understand product and customers
* Can speak with developers, management, and business stakeholders
* Are comfortable with telecom, ISP, infrastructure, and web platforms
* Like creating cl
URL: https://www.lightupnet.de
Technical Product Lead for Innovative Telecom Services - 100% Remote - 6 hours per day
Creating Telecom-centric Web Services
You would work 6 hours per day, Monday to Friday. Freelancer contract. The monthly salary is 2000 EUR.
We are a small, 100% remote telecommunications services company based in Germany and Switzerland established in 1998. Our team currently consists of 10 people working remotely across different countries and time zones.
We build and operate innovative web-based products in the telecommunications and ISP space for retail, business and enterprise clients and telecom operators. Our projects sit at the intersection of telecom infrastructure, customer-facing web applications, automation, billing, provisioning, and operational processes.
We are now looking for a Technical Product Lead to take ownership of translating complex telecom product ideas into clear technical concepts, development tasks, and working software.
The role
You will work directly with the General Manager and act as the bridge between business ideas, telecom/ISP knowledge, product requirements, and software development.
Your job is to make sure that ideas become clear specifications, that developers know exactly what to build, and that projects move forward with quality, speed, and technical sanity.
Responsibilities
* Translate high-level product and business ideas into clear technical concepts, specifications, user stories, and development tickets
* Lead and coordinate a small remote developer team
* Break down complex telecom/ISP workflows into practical web application features
* Define MVPs, priorities, milestones, and delivery plans
* Review developer output from a functional and technical perspective
* Challenge unclear requirements, weak architecture, and poor implementation choices
* Ensure that web applications are built with scalability, maintainability, security, and operational reality in mind
* Help design customer portals, admin backends, provisioning flows, billing-related workflows, APIs, dashboards, and internal tools
* Identify technical risks, blockers, dependencies, and missing pieces early
* Keep projects moving without unnecessary meetings or corporate overhead
* Report progress, risks, and decisions directly to the General Manager
What we are looking for
You should be a technical generalist with a strong product sense.
Ideally, you come from one or more of these backgrounds:
* Technical Product Lead
* Engineering Lead
* Tech Lead
* Solution Architect
* Senior DevOps Engineer
* Senior Sysadmin
* ISP / Telecom Engineer
* Technical company builder
* Fractional CTO
You do not necessarily need to be the main developer yourself, but you must understand enough to lead developers, evaluate technical decisions, and know when something is overbuilt, underbuilt, unclear, or simply wrong.
Required experience
* Strong understanding of web applications, APIs, databases, backend systems, and software delivery
* Profound knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, other distros) environments
* Good understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, routing, IPv4/IPv6, firewalls, VPNs and related infrastructure
* Experience working with developers and turning requirements into clear technical tasks
* Ability to structure complex systems into manageable modules, milestones, and deliverables
* Practical understanding of security, monitoring, logging, reliability, and operational requirements
* Experience working in remote teams
* Strong written communication skills in English
* Perfect English grammar without using AI
* Ability to work independently and take ownership
Nice to have
* Experience in telecommunications, ISP, hosting, datacenter, VoIP, SIP, cloud infrastructure, or B2B SaaS
* Understanding of Linux environments, many years of experience with Linux/GNU command line tools from a time before AI, Python, Bash and/or PHP or all of them, other programming/scripting languages, Proxmox, Virtual Machines, Apache/nginx, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, server hardware & networking gear, IPMI / KVM-over-IP, BGP, IP address management, CIDR, provisioning systems, billing workflows, customer portals, network automation
* Experience building or managing self-service platforms for customers or internal teams
* Experience with small companies, startups, founder-led teams, or distributed freelancer teams
* Hands-on development experience, even if you no longer want to code full-time
* German language skills are a plus, but not mandatory
What makes this role different
This role is for someone who enjoys the messy middle between product, technology, business, and execution.
You should be comfortable taking a rough idea like:
“We need a customer portal for managing telecom services, provisioning, billing, and support workflows.”
and turning it into:
* a clear product concept
* a technical architecture
* implementation phases
* developer tickets
* acceptance criteria
* priorities
* risks
* delivery checkpoints
We need someone who understands what should be built, why it matters, and how to get developers to build it properly.
Working style
* 100% Remote
* Freelancer agreement
* 6 hours per day work-time (Monday to Friday)
* Monthly salary: 2000 EUR
* Direct collaboration with the General Manager
* Small team, fast decisions, low bureaucracy
* Focus on practical delivery, not corporate process
You may be a good fit if you...
* Have a strong technical background but also understand product and customers
* Can speak with developers, management, and business stakeholders
* Are comfortable with telecom, ISP, infrastructure, and web platforms
* Like creating cl
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