About
AutoScout24 Group creates and develops services for customers in the automotive marketplace, helping shape the way the world moves.
Responsibilities
•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
Requirements
•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
Conditions
•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
