Engineering Manager

Job Description

About your tasks:

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop multiple engineering teams, fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish a clear engineering agenda based on an understanding of the teams’ strengths, challenges, and opportunities.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape priorities and balance customer value, business needs, delivery commitments, and technical excellence.
• Create clarity around priorities and ownership, proactively manage risks, communicate them early, and ensure reliable follow-through on commitments.
• Support engineers through regular feedback, career development, mentoring, and performance management.
• Provide technical direction, help teams address root causes, and steer them towards simple, maintainable solutions without acting as an individual contributor.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and stakeholders, addressing conflicts constructively and driving cross-team initiatives.
• Use data and measurable outcomes to improve delivery, reliability, cost efficiency, team effectiveness, and customer impact.

Qualifications

About you:

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams in a product-oriented environment.
• A strong track record of creating direction, driving execution, and achieving measurable outcomes.
• A passion for coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow.
• Sufficient technical depth to recognize what good looks like, challenge constructively, and guide teams towards sound decisions.
• A proactive, structured leadership style with strong ownership and follow-through.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust and effective partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Business.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, modern software engineering practices, and agile product development.
• Experience in e-commerce is a plus, but not required.

Additional Information

About your benefits:

In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge. 
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)

Compensation Grade: Grade 14