Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Ecosia's Search team in Berlin as an Engineering Manager with a Backend focus. Reporting to the CTO, you'll lead and grow a team of engineers, ensuring operational excellence and high-performing backend services. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams on projects improving user experience and ad revenue, while establishing best practices and contributing to Ecosia's engineering strategy. This role involves managing stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. Ecosia offers flexible working hours, remote work options, relocation support, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You are skilled at developing and growing people and have a documented history of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring software engineers, for at least 3 years
• You possess a solid background in Software Engineering (Backend) (including programming languages such as Go & JavaScript and AWS cloud), showcasing the ability to effectively guide the team through the whole development life cycle
• You have prior experience working as a software or ML engineer and know how to apply modern engineering practices to ensure continuous delivery and experimentation
• You have a bias towards action and pragmatism, both in your work, as well as in your enablement of others

Responsibilities

• Be on top of a highly available search technology, and ensure operational excellence
• Enable your team to be self-sufficient by removing roadblocks, facilitating technical decisions, providing the right tools, and assisting the team
• Work alongside the team to overcome backend-specific challenges. Readily engage at all levels, from detailed execution to strategic high-level insights, based on your team’s needs
• Ensure the seamless execution and timely delivery of backend and frontend projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders across our Search teams to implement cross-team initiatives, e.g. search layouts, ML intent recognition, & data pipelines
• Manage stakeholders and engineering efforts with our joint venture to build European Search Perspective
• Advise Product and Engineering stakeholders on strategic backend and search technology investments
• Work with the CTO and Engineering Management peers on the company’s Engineering Strategy
• Onboard great engineering talent to build an innovative, fun, and diverse team
• Inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement and ensure that engineers learn and share their knowledge and insights across teams
• Hold regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth conversations to plan and support career development, including coaching and mentoring
• Review team's performance, ensuring compensation and evaluation are fair and equitable
• Embrace diversity and co-create a collaborative and inclusive culture in line with our company values

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 30 vacation days/year on a five-day week
• Designated Focus Times
• Remote work options
• Relocation support
• Visa/work permit assistance
• Green benefits program, including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services
• Professional growth through monthly learning days, hack days, online and physical libraries, a 2000€ development allowance per year, continuous feedback, etc