Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Description

The company is Europe's largest e-pharmacy and builds its products around cloud-native, microservice-based applications. The role leads several cross-functional engineering teams that work on customer-facing products and internal platforms. Teams own their services end to end, from building them to running them in production, and use automation, observability and data to keep improving.

You will work closely with Product and business stakeholders to shape solutions that deliver value to customers and to the business.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, coach and develop several engineering teams, building a culture that is inclusive, psychologically safe, and built on ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Set a clear engineering agenda based on each team's strengths, challenges and opportunities.
• Work with Product Managers to set priorities and weigh customer value, business needs, delivery commitments and technical quality.
• Make priorities and ownership clear, manage risks early, communicate them openly, and make sure commitments are met.
• Support engineers with regular feedback, career development, mentoring and performance management.
• Give technical direction, help teams fix root causes, and push them toward simple, maintainable solutions, without working as an individual contributor.
• Work with engineering leaders and stakeholders, resolve conflicts constructively, and drive initiatives that span teams.
• Use data and measurable outcomes to improve delivery, reliability, cost efficiency, team effectiveness and customer impact.

Requirements

• You have led multiple engineering teams in a product-focused environment.
• You have a proven record of setting direction, driving delivery and achieving measurable results.
• You enjoy coaching and mentoring engineers and helping them grow.
• You have enough technical depth to judge quality, challenge proposals constructively and guide teams to sound decisions.
• You lead in a proactive, structured way and take strong ownership of outcomes.
• You communicate well and build trust and productive partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Data and Business.
• You are familiar with cloud-native architectures, modern software engineering practices and agile product development.
• Experience in e-commerce is a plus but not required.

Conditions

Equal opportunity: applicants of all backgrounds are welcome.

Benefits

• Sports membership with Urban Sports Club, giving access to a wide range of sports offers.
• Free, anonymous support from psychologists via Likeminded for private or work-related stress.
• Remote work: where the role does not require office presence, your work location can be arranged individually, including up to 20 days a year from anywhere in the EU.
• Fully paid Deutschland Ticket for public transport, usable at any time.
• Personal development through internal and external training.
• Further benefits beyond those listed.