engineering manager in automotive marketplace

AutoScout24 Group creates and develops services for customers in the automotive marketplace, helping shape the way the world moves.

• Build, coach and develop a high-performing team; identify capability gaps, reduce knowledge silos, hire talent and support team members
• Create an environment of trust, candid feedback, learning and psychological safety; monitor morale and wellbeing, remove productivity blockers and handle difficult conversations
• Set expectations, support individual growth, hold people accountable, delegate effectively and empower the team to make decisions aligned with company priorities
• Explain management decisions, challenge constructively and commit to agreed decisions
• Own team capacity, work in progress, output and engineering outcomes; partner with Product and UX on roadmaps, milestones and capacity allocation
• Plan and review technical initiatives, technical debt reduction and operational work; define engineering excellence metrics, assess cost and value, contribute to design documents and refine effort estimates
• Communicate with stakeholders and other teams; resolve or escalate blockers with clear ownership and timelines
• Identify business problems that could benefit from machine learning and align initiative planning with data teams
• Ensure security and regulatory compliance for the team’s systems, including timely remediation or formal risk acknowledgement
• Understand the team’s services, architecture and data flows; guide technical decisions, review design options for resilience, cost and performance, explain trade-offs and contribute hands-on when time allows
• Apply threat modelling, secure design principles and mandatory security training; avoid accidental complexity and use established practices, platform capabilities and AutoScout24 engineering values and principles
• Ensure actionable monitoring and alerting; define and refine service level objectives with stakeholders, review reliability and performance, and act when objectives are missed
• Establish sustainable on-call rotations, shared knowledge and incident practices where on-call is required; follow escalation processes, conduct post-incident reviews and complete improvement actions
• Make business data available through the data platform, maintain its metadata and take responsibility for its quality, availability and consistency
• Monitor infrastructure and licence costs, plan mitigating actions and involve the group director and Finance when needed; support budget planning, follow procurement guidelines and align capitalisable product capacity with Finance
• Align team priorities with company strategy and stakeholder needs; negotiate trade-offs across timing, quality and scope
• Measure the business impact of releases, use product metrics to inform recommendations and show how the team contributes to company goals
• Contribute to cross-team initiatives by identifying improvements, defining and delivering tasks, and presenting outcomes

• Typically 8+ years of industry experience consistent with Engineering Manager scope
• Ability to lead and develop an engineering team within one domain
• Experience working with mobile engineering teams and a solid understanding of React Native, its architecture, development practices and cross-platform application challenges
• Strong technical judgement and understanding of software architecture, operational reliability, security and the systems the team owns
• Ability to coach, delegate, give direct feedback and manage challenging people and leadership situations
• Experience planning capacity, delivering engineering outcomes and working with Product, UX, data teams and other stakeholders
• Understanding of business metrics, financial trade-offs and fundamental data science concepts
• Clear prioritisation and communication skills

• Work location: Berlin or Munich, Germany
• The application requires answering questions about relocation or living nearby, weekly office attendance up to 3 times a week, annual gross salary expectation and GDPR notice acknowledgement