Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Europe's fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products as an Engineering Manager. Lead and mentor a team of senior backend engineers, focusing on designing and implementing robust, scalable systems. Leverage your expertise in Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and other technologies within our Delivery & Satisfaction squad. Contribute to feature development, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and foster a strong engineering culture. We offer a remote-friendly work environment, professional development opportunities, and a supportive team culture.

Requirements

• A strong and accepted leader with 5+ years of experience managing senior backend engineers
• Proven ability to grow teams, build relationships, earn trust, and retain strong engineering leaders while managing performance effectively
• Deep knowledge of designing and implementing backend services
• Significant experience in designing robust, high-scale systems by encouraging engineers to develop generic, scalable solutions
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational database design
• Experience in software development using the Go programming language
• Experience working with remote, multi-functional teams to deliver complex, cross-domain solutions
• Skilled in collaborating with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and address critical challenges
• Ability to maintain a strong engineering culture focused on reliability while aligning with business priorities
• Ability to work autonomously with a focus on achieving objectives
• Fosters collaboration across teams ensures that every engineer feels ownership of their work
• Empower engineers to contribute ideas, make decisions, and take responsibility for delivering quality solutions
• Seeks and provides feedback, enables knowledge sharing, and strives to adopt modern tools and practices
• Rejects blaming culture, treats mistakes as learning opportunities, driving constant improvement
• Formal education in Computer Science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Provide insights to squad members and other engineering and business stakeholders
• Regularly review code submissions and participate in technical design discussions
• Build and maintain our main APIs and backend services related to squad scope topics
• Work closely with Product, Business, and Engineering leadership to design and develop new features that enhance the user experience for our customers
• Facilitates collaboration within the team, identifies and solves blockers and conflicts between people, and detects possible problems early
• Contribute to company and squad planning, defining roadmaps, and short-, mid-, and long-term squad strategy
• Be an active member or drive internal squad meetings
• Conducts frequent 1-1s to keep your team happy and healthy
• Empower your directs to unlock their potential and support their personal and professional growth
• Actively inform your manager and engineering leadership about squad initiatives and their status, and proactively surface problems

Benefits

• You can take unlimited number of trainings we are offering you through LinkedIn learning
• We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health
• We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments
• We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
• We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize
• You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops