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AutoScout24

Online marketplace facilitating European car transactions

Engineering Manager - Business Technology

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Munich, Germany
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Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise systems, integrations, or business systems technology.
  • Significant engineering management experience, including ownership of team leadership, delivery execution, stakeholder alignment, and technical direction.
  • Experience designing, troubleshooting, and supporting software systems such as Billing, Revenue, CRM, ERP, HRIS, and related enterprise platforms.
  • Expertise in database technologies, including enterprise data modeling, transactional and analytical data structures, data storage, performance optimization, and data lifecycle management.
  • Experience with scripting and automation technologies used to support integrations, operational processes, batch workloads, and platform support activities.
  • Experience with reporting, analytics, and enterprise data consumption patterns, including delivery of trusted data for operational and business insight needs.
  • Understanding of integration patterns, APIs, middleware, event-driven and service-based architectures, and enterprise automation frameworks.
  • Experience delivering and supporting real-time and batch integration solutions across varied enterprise technology environments.
  • Experience with data pipelines, transformation processes, orchestration, and system-to-system synchronization.
  • Understanding of software design principles and ability to design systems at both conceptual and detailed levels.
  • Experience with modern API technology stacks, including web services, service contracts, payload formats, authentication, and enterprise integration standards.
  • Experience with system migration, production releases, deployment planning, rollback strategies, and operational readiness.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills to influence, negotiate, and align technology initiatives with business priorities.
  • Ability to work effectively with technical experts across enterprise, digital, and business platforms.
  • Ability to structure teamwork, create clarity, and drive accountability.
  • Conflict management, problem-solving, and resolution skills.
  • Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on delivery leadership.
  • Collaboration across engineering, operations, data, product, and business teams.
  • An AI-first and innovation-oriented mindset, with the ability to evaluate emerging technologies pragmatically and apply them to real business problems.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and delivery of enterprise integrations and automation solutions across ERP, Billing, Revenue, CRM, HRIS, and related platforms.
  • Define scalable integration patterns, system interfaces, API strategies, data flows, and engineering standards across enterprise applications.
  • Identify opportunities to improve automation, operational efficiency, insights, and engineering productivity through AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
  • Ensure AI-enabled solutions are implemented responsibly, with appropriate governance, security, explainability, and alignment to business objectives.
  • Lead system migration initiatives, including transition planning, cutover strategy, dependency mapping, risk management, and business continuity considerations.
  • Drive data archival and retention strategies to ensure compliance, accessibility, cost efficiency, and operational integrity.
  • Lead system decommissioning efforts, including impact assessment, transition planning, historical data preservation, and retirement of legacy capabilities.
  • Oversee the design and support of data pipelines that enable reliable movement, transformation, and availability of business-critical data across systems.
  • Support business reporting and analytical needs by ensuring enterprise data is trusted, well-structured, and accessible for decision-making.
  • Manage end-to-end execution of integration and platform programs, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, issue resolution, and delivery oversight.
  • Define and enforce deployment, release, and rollback plans to ensure safe production changes, minimal disruption, and rapid recovery when required.
  • Lead engineering resources by providing technical direction, coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
  • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Establish best practices for documentation, monitoring, support readiness, operational governance, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure solutions are secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.

About the company

AutoScout24 operates an online car marketplace across 18 European countries with a catalog of over 2.4 million vehicles and about 10 million monthly visitors. Users browse and search listings to buy or sell cars; dealers and private sellers pay listing fees or advertising and value-added services, and the platform offers marketing tools to help reach buyers. It differentiates itself by offering a large, pan-European inventory combined with dealer marketing solutions and a dual channel for private and professional sellers, supported by an ecosystem of related automotive platforms. Its goal is to enable efficient, large-scale vehicle transactions online by giving buyers broad choice and giving sellers a strong channel to connect with customers while generating revenue from listings, advertising, and services.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$275M

Headquarters

Munich, Germany

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • H1 2026 reporting on August 6, 2026 showed continued revenue growth and strong execution.
  • SmartInserieren launched June 10, 2026, using AI to reduce dealer listing friction.
  • AutoProff launched AP Estimate and AP Managed Smart across Europe in 2026, deepening monetization.

What critics are saying

  • Fitch raised leverage above 7.0x in December 2025, squeezing downturn flexibility.
  • AutoScout24 still trails mobile.de in Germany, leaving core-market pricing power contested.
  • Heavy debt maturities and acquisition integration create refinancing risk if EBITDA stalls in 2027.

What makes AutoScout24 unique

  • AutoScout24 spans 18 countries, pairing consumer traffic with dealer software and lender tools.
  • Trader Canada closed December 11, 2024, adding AutoTrader.ca and AutoHebdo.net.
  • AutoProff’s 2026 B2B marketplace links 40,000 dealers and 170,000 retail-ready vehicles.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Paid Vacation
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