Engineering Manager (f/m/d)
Stuttgart
Software Development – Software Development /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Be bold, think big and grow with us!
We are one of the fastest growing B2B scale-ups in Germany, creating real value for the engineering industry. With our software, we are setting a new standard in the spare parts business, enabling comprehensive market transparency for the first time. To achieve this, we challenge the status quo every day and support our employees in actively shaping their careers and pushing their own boundaries. Become part of a team that can't be stopped, that overcomes challenges together and celebrates success together.
Are you ready? Join the crew! 🚀
Be part of our success story and join us as Engineering Manager (f/m/d)!
An Engineering Manager's role is to build a high-performing, healthy engineering organization by owning people leadership end-to-end: hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, growth, and team effectiveness. You enable engineers to do their best work while partnering closely with Tech Leads/Lead Engineers who own technical direction and decisions. This is a true people-first leadership role with a strong focus on delivery health and continuous improvement.
Your Mission
- 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, strong 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.
Your Skills
- 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.
Your 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. 🛒
Awarded as a Top-5%-Employer for the 5th time in a row. Fly with us @MARKT-PILOT! 🚀
