Engineering Manager

About the role

Lead and grow the cross-functional product engineering team responsible for one of LiveEO's core products. Own the technical strategy, team health, and delivery execution across a diverse group of engineers spanning data engineering, ML, geospatial and remote sensing, software, platform, backend, and frontend.

What you'll do

• Lead the definition and evolution of the technical roadmap and architectural standards for your product area. Ensure the team builds for scalability, reliability, and maintainability - while staying pragmatic about delivery pace.
• Directly manage a 10+ person engineering team across multiple disciplines. Conduct regular 1:1s, support career development and foster a culture of collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Uphold engineering excellence across the team - code quality, testing practices, documentation, and architectural review.
• Champion a customer-value mindset across the team. Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in real user needs and that the product your team owns delivers measurable value to customers.
• Own and maintain the engineering team's responsibilities under LiveEO's SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance programs.
• Work closely with Product Managers and the Designer embedded in your team on product direction, prioritisation, and the overall quality of what gets built and shipped.

What you'll need

• Proven track record managing and growing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment. Experience leading teams building customer-facing SaaS products and applications is essential.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams with a strong focus on customer outcomes.
• Solid understanding of geospatial data, remote sensing principles, or Earth observation workflows. Familiarity with satellite-derived data products and the technical challenges of working with spatial data at scale is required.
• Strong software engineering background that gives you credibility with your team and the ability to make informed architectural and technical decisions.
• Hands-on experience running agile teams using Scrum or Scrumban.
• Ability to communicate clearly with C/VP-level leadership, non-technical stakeholders, and engineering peers alike.
• Experience conducting meaningful performance conversations, supporting career growth, and building inclusive, high-performing team cultures.

What they offer

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model.
• Employee-driven career development with freedom to be creative and bold.
• Not an overtime culture - overtime is offset with time off and rest.
• Collaborative and learning environment with workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, and hackathons.
• Office in Berlin Kreuzberg with free fruit, nuts and drinks; Urban Sports membership and BVG subsidy; corporate pension program.
• Potential to participate in the employee stock option program.