MARKT-PILOT

Engineering Manager

MARKT-PILOT

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Stuttgart • Germany

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About the role

  • Own full people responsibility for ~10 engineers across multiple stream-aligned teams, including one-on-ones, feedback, performance cycles, career development, retention, succession, and internal mobility.
  • Coach engineers across all levels (Working Student/Intern to Principal), fostering growth in skills, scope, and impact while building a culture of trust, psychological safety, accountability, and clear expectations.
  • Partner closely with Lead Software Engineers who own technical direction and architecture; stay out of “what” decisions and enable the “how well” by improving clarity, collaboration, staffing, and overall system health.
  • Measure and improve engineering effectiveness using a balanced set of indicators (e.g., DORA metrics, cycle time, throughput, WIP, sprint predictability, incident load, escaped defects, operational toil) without gaming metrics.
  • Actively shape delivery health and developer experience by driving meaningful retrospectives, thorough incident follow-ups, better cross-team collaboration, and removing recurring blockers to improve flow and performance.
  • Own hiring end-to-end within your scope: define needs with Leads, run structured interviews, make confident decisions, ensure strong onboarding and fast, sustainable ramp-up, and translate company goals into realistic capacity and execution plans.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or a senior Tech Lead ready to fully step into people leadership, ideally within a product-driven scale-up environment.
  • Strong passion for people leadership: coaching, structured feedback, performance management, hiring, conflict resolution, motivation, and developing high-performing teams.
  • Deep understanding of agile and lean delivery principles, with the ability to improve effectiveness and reliability pragmatically using meaningful metrics.
  • Solid technical foundation in modern SaaS environments (CI/CD, production operations, service architecture) enabling you to credibly spar with engineers and Leads on delivery risks and quality without owning architectural decisions.
  • Ability to translate company objectives into staffing, capacity planning, and realistic delivery commitments while protecting team focus and managing stakeholder expectations.
  • Clear, direct, and trust-building communicator, fluent in English (German optional), with a collaborative startup mindset and strong cross-functional alignment skills.
Benefits
  • Our modern and open scale-up culture gives you the freedom to unleash your creativity within a dynamic and agile team. 💡
  • Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Feedback here is exactly what it should be - an essential part of your work. 📈
  • We invest in your growth: Discover our Learning & Development programs - including an L&D budget! 🌱
  • Flexible working hours and the option to work hybrid.
  • Rest is important too - 30 days of vacation 🏖️
  • Travel by Train: Even MARKT-PILOTS take the train! We subsidize your monthly Deutschland-Ticket! 🚆
  • Job bikes for those who prefer to travel on two wheels! 🚴‍♀️
  • Crew-Love: Look forward to regular team events, exciting gaming sessions, and much more. 🎮️
  • Stay Healthy: With a discounted WELLPASS membership and healthy snacks, you can always recharge your batteries. 🍏
  • Corporate Benefits: Discover a variety of attractive offers from top brands with exclusive discounts. 🛒
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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering managementperformance managementagile deliverylean deliverySaaS environmentsCI/CDservice architectureDORA metricsincident managementcapacity planning
Soft Skills
coachingstructured feedbackconflict resolutionmotivationteam developmentcommunicationcollaborationtrust-buildingaccountabilitypsychological safety