Vay

Senior Engineering Manager, Driving Software

Vay

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Linux

About the role

  • Lead and scale the Platform and Media engineering teams, owning the delivery of core real time platform and media systems
  • Define and drive modern software engineering practices, ensuring high quality, reliability, and predictable delivery
  • Partner with technical leads to shape roadmaps, priorities, and long term technical direction
  • Review designs and guide architectural decisions for performance and safety critical systems
  • Build, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career growth
  • Own hiring for your teams in close collaboration with Talent
  • Stay hands on where it adds the most value, contributing up to 25% of the time
  • Collaborate closely with product, program, and cross functional teams to drive alignment and execution

Requirements

  • You have led multiple high performing engineering teams of 5 to 10 engineers, with a proven track record of scaling and developing teams
  • You are passionate about improving engineering productivity and enabling other teams across the organisation
  • You bring strong proficiency in C++ and Linux, with experience working close to the system in performance critical environments
  • You have worked on embedded or real time systems where reliability, latency, and resource constraints are critical to success
  • You are a clear and effective communicator, comfortable aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across teams and levels
  • You operate with a high sense of urgency and ownership in fast moving environments
  • Nice to have: Experience working with Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Nice to have: Experience with hardware or compute platform evaluation and selection
Benefits
  • ESOP stock options: A stake in Vay’s future - not just a salary
  • Unlimited Paid Vacation Days
  • Subsidised Deutschland ticket (Berlin)
  • Subsidised Urban Sports Club or FitX Membership
  • All Vay team members receive 30% off their Vay rides
  • Exclusive external discounts
  • €350 Home office budget
  • Relocation financial assistance when relocating to Berlin
  • Fully funded German Lessons
  • Regular team events throughout the year

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard skills
C++Linuxembedded systemsreal time systemsperformance critical environmentssoftware engineering practicesarchitectural decisionsengineering productivityRobot Operating System (ROS)hardware evaluation
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcoachingfeedbackcareer growthalignmentdecision makingsense of urgencyownership