Engineering Manager - Foundations & Enablement

JobgetherSoftware engineering

Based in GermanyFull-TimeManager

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Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
Required Skills: Backend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentCI/CDDevOps

Have 7+ years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
Hold a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Be comfortable leading engineers across frontend and backend disciplines.
Have hands-on understanding of scalability, reliability, observability, and security principles.
Have experience owning or leading platform, DevOps, security, developer tooling, or similar engineering initiatives.
Understand software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and problem-solving, and be able to guide senior and staff-level engineers.
Be familiar with testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on maintainability, reliability, and code quality.
Have working knowledge of incident response practices and operational reliability.
Be able to lead teams through execution, resolve blockers, and ensure delivery commitments are met.
Demonstrate communication, organization, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills, including negotiating competing priorities across teams.
Demonstrate AI literacy, including the ability to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and work quality with sound judgment and critical thinking.

Lead and support a cross-functional engineering team, focusing on delivery, people development, team performance, and continuous process improvement.
Balance the team's technical roadmap with prioritized requests from multiple product teams, communicating priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs.
Maintain and evolve engineering-wide standards covering security, tooling, CI/CD, developer experience, and shared engineering practices.
Partner with the Infrastructure team on shared platform concerns while maintaining clear ownership boundaries and responsibilities.
Mentor engineers, conduct one-on-one meetings, establish goals, evaluate performance, and provide continuous feedback.
Support technical decision-making and ensure delivery processes remain effective and commitments are met.
Establish delivery estimates, monitor progress, identify risks, and help the team remove blockers.
Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding activities.
Foster documentation, knowledge sharing, and open communication across the engineering organization.
Continuously improve engineering processes and ways of working in a remote-first environment.

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