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Senior Engineering Manager
Location
Germany
Posted
74 days ago
Salary
75K - 95K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager
sofatutor
Role Description You’ll lead the engineering team at the heart of sofatutor’s core product – a learning platform used by over a million students, parents, and teachers across the German-speaking market. This is a hands-on leadership role inside a cross-functional unit: - Work directly with a Senior Product Lead, Content Leads, and a Staff Engineer, owning both the people and the delivery. - Your team: 10 full-stack engineers (frontend, backend, one mobile). - Your context: a product that matters, a strong and experienced leadership group, and real room to shape how engineering works here. - Own the structure, leadership, and further development of the Engineers in the team, with a clear focus on outcomes, quality, and sustainable delivery. - Coach Engineers (technically & personally), set up growth plans, and establish effective feedback and performance routines. - Strengthen a collaborative, motivating team culture with ownership, psychological safety, and a high-quality orientation. - Work closely with Product, Design, Content, and Technical Leaders on roadmap, prioritization, and implementation—and translate goals into realistic plans. - Continuously refine workflows, agile rituals, and quality standards (e.g., DoR/DoD, release processes, incident learnings). - Ensure that technical decisions, dependencies, and risks are transparent—and actively steer towards solutions. - Have experience in hiring, designing onboarding processes, and the professional development of Software Engineers. - Build structures that enable scaling (e.g., role/leveling clarity, clear responsibilities, knowledge management). - Help your team adopt AI responsibly: the right tools, at the right stage of the development cycle, with clear ownership of what gets shipped. Benefits - Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of life. - Future benefits: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands. - Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health. - BVG: Berlin public transport or “Deutschlandticket” at a discounted price. - Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities. - Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club.
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