• You’ll be the kind of leader who: • Inspires engineers to grow, learn, and push themselves further • Removes blockers before they become problems • Creates an environment where autonomy, trust, and collaboration thrive • Balances speed with engineering excellence and compliance expectations • Helps teams focus on meaningful outcomes, not just ticket completion • Champions modern engineering practices, cloud-native thinking, automation, and AI-enabled ways of working • Drives adoption of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and supports high-performing scrum teams • Works closely with Product, Delivery, and Engineering leaders to shape what we build and how we build it. • Most importantly, you’ll help create a culture where engineers feel genuinely empowered to be themselves, contribute openly, and do work they’re proud of.

Role Description - Durchführung von Online-Unterricht im Zeitraum von 08:00 bis 11:30 Uhr (Montag bis Freitag) - Vermittlung von Fachwissen im Bereich nachhaltige Stadt- und Quartiersentwicklung - Praxisnahe Gestaltung des Unterrichts unter Einbringung eigener Erfahrungen und Schwerpunkte - Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Nachbereitung der Unterrichtseinheiten - Unterstützung der Teilnehmenden beim Transfer in die berufliche Praxis - Mitwirkung an der inhaltlichen Ausgestaltung des Kurses in enger Abstimmung mit dem Bildungsträger Qualifications - Fundierte Kenntnisse im Bereich GIS - Fachwissen im Bereich nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, Energie oder Quartiersplanung - Erfahrung in der Erwachsenenbildung wünschenswert - Kommunikationsstärke und didaktisches Geschick - Eigenständige und strukturierte Arbeitsweise - Zuverlässigkeit und Verantwortungsbewusstsein Benefits - Freiberufliche Tätigkeit in einem etablierten Bildungsunternehmen - Flexible Zusammenarbeit und eigenständige Gestaltung der Inhalte - Möglichkeit, eigene Schwerpunkte und Praxiserfahrungen einzubringen - Digitaler Unterricht im virtuellen Klassenzimmer - Zusammenarbeit in einem professionellen und unterstützenden Umfeld Requirements - Unterrichtszeiten: Montag bis Freitag, 08:00 bis 11:30 Uhr - Umfang: 60 Arbeitstage (12 Wochen) - Ort: Online - Anstellung: Freiberuflich

• Product & Technical Leadership – Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well structured Agile process. Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high quality engineering work at scale. • Technical Oversight – Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success. • Team Development – Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback. Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence. • Cross-functional Collaboration – Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions. • Engineering Standards & Best Practices – Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability. • Operational Excellence – Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance and reliability. • Incident Management & On-call Processes – Oversee incident response, and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues. • Continuous Improvement – Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency.

Role Description As an Engineering Manager, you combine technical expertise with strong leadership to guide a team of product engineers in delivering impactful outcomes for DISCO and our customers. You contribute directly to technical design, implementation, and optimisation within your team’s scope and across the engineering org, while also supporting engineers to grow their skills and careers. You know when to be hands-on in solving technical challenges and when to focus on strategy and people management. You work in close collaboration with your product and design peers as part of a product triad to prioritise and deliver work that balances feature delivery with quality, performance and reliability, ensuring technical feasibility and customer value. As a leader, you foster a high performance culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration, while supporting team autonomy and aligning with broader engineering standards. Responsibilities - Product & Technical Leadership – Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well-structured Agile process. Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high-quality engineering work at scale. - Technical Oversight – Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success. - Team Development – Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback. Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence. - Cross-functional Collaboration – Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions. - Engineering Standards & Best Practices – Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability. - Operational Excellence – Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance, and reliability. - Incident Management & On-call Processes – Oversee incident response, and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues. - Continuous Improvement – Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency. - Engineering Leadership Experience – Proven experience leading a team of engineers in a high-growth or complex product environment, with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a strong engineering culture. - Scalability & System Design – Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and distributed systems, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-based environment. - Technical Expertise – Strong knowledge of modern backend and frontend technologies, system performance optimisation, and architectural best practices for high-traffic applications. - Balancing Business & Engineering Priorities – Ability to make strategic trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, and operational improvements, and to articulate a clear, data-driven business case for decisions you make. - Cross-functional Collaboration – Experience working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align on goals, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions. - Operational Focus – Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and maintaining service reliability at scale, including working with SLOs, observability platforms, and optimising for cost efficiency. - Process & Best Practices – Knowledge of modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, testing strategies, and iterative improvement of engineering processes. - Strong Communication & Influence – Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Bonus Skills (Nice to Haves) - We use React, Typescript, Python, and Postgres; experience with these, or similar, is a big plus. - Experience working in a high-scale SaaS or cloud-based environment. - Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. - Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and error tracking. - Passion for building a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Benefits - Office set up allowance - Annual learning and development allowance - Company Paid Parental Leave - Monthly internet allowance Company Description At DISCO, our employees have told us what benefits mean the most to them, and we've listened. So as a DISCO employee, you will work remotely from home (or a co-working space) whilst being supported by a friendly and fun international team.