Engineering Manager - Platform

About the role

Your mission is to bridge the gap between "infrastructure" and "developer success". You will transform our platform from a set of tools and processes into a cohesive internal product. You will lead a team of engineers through a period of growth and establish a "paved road" that allows our product teams to ship with zero friction.

What you'll do

• Working together with our Staff Engineer, define what good looks like and how to become a high performing team.
• Oversee delivery timelines and scope, and make highly impactful decisions.
• Work with ambiguous requirements and turn them into concrete deliverables, making trade-off decisions where needed.
• Act as a coach and talent magnet, responsible for the growth, performance, and structure of the Platform unit.
• Drive Platform excellence across developer experience, infrastructure, and SRE.
• Communicate regularly with other Engineering Managers, manage expectations, and hold them accountable for delivery dependencies.

What you'll need

• High agency: you don't wait for permission to fix a glaring problem — you build the business case, get the buy-in, and get it done.
• A track record of taking complex initiatives across the finish line and driving projects to true 100% completion.
• Strong opinions, weakly held: comfortable to disagree and commit in order to move forward.
• Background in Platform, Backend, or Data Engineering.
• Thrives on solving "the hard stuff" and never leaves a job 80% finished.

What they offer

• Monthly Deutschlandticket subsidy for commuting
• Private pension plan with 20% employer contribution
• 28 vacation days per year, increasing with tenure
• Mental and physical health support via Nilo and Wellhub
• Hybrid setup: 3 days a week in Berlin HQ in Schöneberg
• Quarterly Blacklane ride voucher (Mystery Rides)