Engineering Manager

Kaufland e-commerce

full-time

Posted on: 10/17/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cologne • 🇩🇪 Germany

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JavaScriptPHP

About the role

You have found your passion in software development, but you enjoy building the right team, removing roadblocks, helping others, creating transparency, and alignment even more than being an individual contributor
Depending on your experience, you will be responsible for the engineers of 1–3 product teams in a "you-build-it-you-run-it" environment
Depending on the number of people and teams you lead, you will still contribute hands-on for a portion of your time
You will help our engineers grow personally and professionally — not only by advancing their technical skills, but also by inspiring them through purpose
You ensure we leverage (new) technologies within our product teams to build products customers love and that work for the business
You are responsible for product delivery while balancing time, budget, and quality
You will contribute to strategic initiatives that span beyond your team(s), such as raising the engineering bar, improving our guidelines, and defining how we work as an organization

You have worked in cross-functional product teams and bring extensive experience in engineering scalable web applications
You are an experienced Engineering Manager who solves engineering problems with tools and frameworks that make sense for both the problem domain and the engineering organization; the team’s tech stack is predominantly PHP and JavaScript, and we expect you to have hands-on experience with these languages
You demonstrate an outstanding sense of ownership, passion, and drive that energizes the team
Your communication skills are excellent, and you understand what matters—especially in a remote setup
You already have experience in a management role and in building successful teams, and you are motivated to grow further as an Engineering Manager
You are a natural go-to person within your organization, mentoring other engineers and helping them grow and succeed
You are willing to go the extra mile to make your team successful, you give honest feedback, and you can discuss, commit, and execute
You are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment

Benefits

Create your own work–life balance: choose between working remotely (within Germany) or from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or our co-working space in Berlin
Relocation support: if you want to move to Germany, we offer an attractive relocation package to ensure a smooth start
Fitness benefits: Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios — access to great deals for fitness, swimming, yoga, and more
Mental well-being: support including offerings such as Instahelp, the digital platform for online psychological counseling
Vacation & sabbatical: 30 days of vacation per year and the opportunity to take a sabbatical after a qualifying period
Pluxee restaurant vouchers (optional): purchase Pluxee vouchers through us and benefit from tax-advantaged meal allowances
Deutschlandticket: we subsidize your public transport season ticket for greater mobility
Employee discount: receive a monthly coupon for Kaufland.de
Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux — the choice is yours
Professional growth: access to online language learning, diverse internal training, and automated 360-degree feedback. We cover costs for relevant conferences, training opportunities, and approved team workshops to strengthen collaboration

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