Engineering Manager (all genders)

Eurowings Digital GmbH; Köln; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurowings Digital GmbH in Köln is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead three cross-functional engineering teams and drive delivery excellence. You will mentor engineers, align product, tech and business priorities, and promote AI-native software development.

You will partner with Staff Engineers to shape architectural direction, manage technical debt and enable predictable, high-quality delivery using modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of engineering management experience leading software teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams with multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Experience in an AI-native SDLC and AI-based engineering practices.
• Strong software development background for modern, customer-facing apps.
• Understanding of frontend and backend technologies, APIs, cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop 10-12 engineers across three teams.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to align priorities and manage dependencies.
• Communicate goals, progress, risks and decisions clearly to all stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of an AI-native SDLC to improve productivity and quality.
• Partner with Staff Engineers to shape technical direction and manage debt.
• Enable predictable, high-quality delivery by aligning capacity and risks.

Skills

Engineering management

Cross-functional leadership

English proficiency

AI-native SDLC

Software craftsmanship

Frontend & Backend

Architectural judgment

Collaboration with stakeholders

Job description

As Engineering Manager, you will lead three cross-functional engineering teams, combining technical and engineering leadership, people development and delivery excellence. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will strengthen our engineering culture and advance modern approaches, including AI-native software development.

Tasks

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach and develop 10-12 engineers across three cross-functional teams through mentoring, timely feedback, performance management and career development.

• Partner with Product and other stakeholders to align customer, business and technical priorities and manage dependencies and trade-offs.
• Communicate goals, progress, risks and decisions clearly, building trust and alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of an AI-native SDLC, using AI and automation to improve productivity, quality and delivery effectiveness.
• Partner with Staff Engineers to shape technical direction, evolve architecture, manage technical debt and translate technology strategy into team priorities.
• Enable predictable, high-quality delivery by aligning capacity, managing dependencies and risks, and using engineering metrics to improve performance and reliability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

• 2-3+ years of engineering management experience, leading and developing one or more software engineering teams
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and navigating multiple priorities, dependencies and stakeholders
• Fluent English, both written and spoken

• Experience working in an AI-native SDLC and adopting AI-based engineering practices across teams
• A strong software development background in modern, customer-facing applications
• Understanding of frontend and backend technologies, architecture, APIs, cloud platforms and modern engineering practices

What you’ll bring

• People-first leadership: You empower engineers while creating clear ownership and accountability
• Strong technical judgment: You challenge decisions constructively and guide pragmatic, sustainable solutions
• Continuous improvement: You remove friction and use data, AI and automation to improve how teams work
• Resilience and adaptability: You provide clarity and focus through ambiguity and change
• A collaborative mindset: You align Engineering, Product and stakeholders around shared outcomes

About Eurowings Digital GmbH

We want to unfold the world to our customers. Eurowings Digitals mission is to deliver the most convenient and affordable end2end travel experience by connecting the physical and digital world. While our customers enjoy their journey, we take charge of a carefree travel experience. Not only offering quality flights for affordable prices, but being a travel companion all along the way. From their first inspiration to their favorite travel memories. Therefore we launched a whole new company which puts their customer into their total focus. Together we are going to discover, develop and test new products along the whole customer journey, on- and offline. In agile and diverse teams we will revolutionize the way of travelling.