Kaufland e-commerce

Engineering Manager – Backend Infrastructure

Kaufland e-commerce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cologne • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudGoKubernetesPHP

About the role

  • We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our platform teams.
  • This team plays a critical role in shaping and optimizing our internal platforms, focusing on Identity & Access Management (IAM), mailing services, and our backend architecture.
  • As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly skilled team that defines the company’s technical foundation.
  • You are not afraid to get your hands dirty by actively contributing to development efforts, with a focus on backend technologies such as Golang and PHP (among others).
  • You are responsible for advancing your team members’ skills and careers and for inspiring them through purpose.
  • You develop, monitor and own the relevant KPIs for your teams (cost, SLAs, SLIs, etc.).
  • You contribute to our guidelines, policies, and standards to improve how we work.

Requirements

  • You have experience in a product team, focusing on choosing the right technical solutions and owning products end-to-end.
  • You have several years of hands-on engineering experience with Golang and familiarity with PHP.
  • Initial leadership experience through mentoring, coaching, or in a managerial position is beneficial but not required. We’re looking for someone passionate about people management who wants to grow into an Engineering Manager role.
  • You have experience using cloud and infrastructure resources and are familiar with tools like Kubernetes.
  • Your communication and interpersonal skills are strong, enabling effective collaboration with product teams.
  • You are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment.
  • You have a results-oriented approach, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
Benefits
  • Create your own work–life balance: choose between remote work (within Germany) or working from one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or our co‑working space in Berlin.
  • Relocation support: we offer an attractive relocation package to help you move to Germany.
  • Fitness offers: discounts for Urban Sports Club and RSG Group fitness studios — access to fitness, swimming, yoga and more.
  • Mental well‑being: support through services such as Instahelp, a digital platform for online psychological counseling.
  • Vacation & sabbatical: 30 days of vacation per year and the option to take a sabbatical after a qualifying period.
  • Pluxee restaurant vouchers option: 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 — it’s up to you.
  • Career growth: access to online language learning, diverse internal training, and automated 360-degree feedback. We cover costs for relevant conferences, training, and approved team workshops to support personal development and team bonding.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
GolangPHPbackend architectureKPI developmentcost managementSLA monitoringSLI monitoring
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationinterpersonal skillsresults-orientedcollaboration