Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

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.

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.

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 :)

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