About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for building a high-performing engineering team at a growing B2B scale-up in Germany. Focus on people leadership, delivery health, and team effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Own full people responsibility for ~10 engineers across multiple stream-aligned teams, including one-on-ones, feedback, performance cycles, career development, retention, succession, and internal mobility.
Coach engineers across all levels (Working Student/Intern to Principal), fostering growth in skills, scope, and impact while building a culture of trust, psychological safety, accountability, and clear expectations.
Partner closely with Lead Software Engineers who own technical direction and architecture; stay out of “what” decisions and enable the “how well” by improving clarity, collaboration, staffing, and overall system health.
Measure and improve engineering effectiveness using a balanced set of indicators (e.g., DORA metrics, cycle time, throughput, WIP, sprint predictability, incident load, escaped defects, operational toil) without gaming metrics.
Actively shape delivery health and developer experience by driving meaningful retrospectives, thorough incident follow-ups, better cross-team collaboration, and removing recurring blockers to improve flow and performance.
Own hiring end-to-end within your scope: define needs with Leads, run structured interviews, make confident decisions, ensure strong onboarding and fast, sustainable ramp-up, and translate company goals into realistic capacity and execution plans.

Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or a senior Tech Lead ready to fully step into people leadership, ideally within a product-driven scale-up environment.
Strong passion for people leadership: coaching, structured feedback, performance management, hiring, conflict resolution, motivation, and developing high-performing teams.
Deep understanding of agile and lean delivery principles, with the ability to improve effectiveness and reliability pragmatically using meaningful metrics.
Solid technical foundation in modern SaaS environments (CI/CD, production operations, service architecture) enabling you to credibly spar with engineers and Leads on delivery risks and quality without owning architectural decisions.
Ability to translate company objectives into staffing, capacity planning, and realistic delivery commitments while protecting team focus and managing stakeholder expectations.
Clear, direct, and trust-building communicator, fluent in English (German optional), with a collaborative startup mindset and strong cross-functional alignment skills.

Our modern and open scale-up culture gives you the freedom to unleash your creativity within a dynamic and agile team. 💡
Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Feedback here is exactly what it should be - an essential part of your work. 📈
We invest in your growth: Discover our Learning & Development programs - including an L&D budget! 🌱
Flexible working hours and the option to work hybrid.
Rest is important too - 30 days of vacation 🏖️
Travel by Train: Even MARKT-PILOTS take the train! We subsidize your monthly Deutschland-Ticket! 🚆
Job bikes for those who prefer to travel on two wheels! 🚴‍♀️
Crew-Love: Look forward to regular team events, exciting gaming sessions, and much more. 🎮️
Stay Healthy: With a discounted WELLPASS membership and healthy snacks, you can always recharge your batteries. 🍏
Corporate Benefits: Discover a variety of attractive offers from top brands with exclusive discounts. 🛒