Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)

CarOnSale Service GmbH; Berlin; Híbrido; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid in Berlin

Annual leave 28 days

Deutschlandticket

Descripción de la vacante

CarOnSale Service GmbH is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the TRX team responsible for real-time auctioning and selling modalities across Europe. You will shape the technical direction, drive architecture decisions, and ensure delivery quality for live auctions.

You will manage a multi-time-zone team, hire and grow talent, and implement robust testing and metrics. English is the working language; German is a plus. Hybrid Berlin office with a mix of office and home days.

Formación

• 8+ years as a software engineer in IC roles before moving into management.
• 2+ years managing engineers as their line manager.
• Experience with distributed systems and data consistency.
• Led a team you assembled, with hiring and growth responsibilities.
• Experience running a delivery methodology (Scrum, Kanban, or similar).
• Owns technical strategy for a team or domain, tied to governance (OKRs).
• AI-first mindset; daily use of AI tools and driving adoption.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and platform selling modalities.
• Set the team's technical direction and architecture calls; align with OKRs.
• Own delivery quality, testing layers, and live auction reliability.
• Define and monitor technical metrics and alerts for the team.
• Hire, level, and grow team members; manage performance.
• Oversee onboarding, growth plans, and mentoring across levels.
• Balance product and engineering trade-offs with business and risk considerations.
• Drive AI adoption within the team and leverage AI tooling.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Engineering management

OKR alignment

AI adoption

English (C1)

Herramientas

TypeScript

NestJS

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Heroku

Angular

Flutter

Descripción del empleo

About us

Thousands of dealers bid on our platform, and every bid runs through the system your team owns. Real-time auctions, every selling modality, seven engineers from mid-level to staff, and a dedicated Product Manager. You decide where it goes next.

CarOnSale is the AI-powered platform for B2B used car trading in Europe. Over 40,000 buyers from more than 20 countries trade on our platform --- and 85% of inventory is exclusive to us. We connect software, pricing intelligence, logistics and financing in one layer --- as the operating system for an entire industry.

One Platform. One Profit Engine.

What you'll do

• You lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and the selling modalities at the core of our platform. Seven engineers across backend, web and mobile, working with a dedicated Product Manager, across European and Brazilian time zones.
• You own the team's technical direction. You set the strategy for the auction domain, tie it to OKRs, and make the architecture calls with the team.
• You own delivery and quality. You run the delivery method, decide which testing layers carry which risks, and make sure what ships holds up under live auctions.
• You own the team's technical metrics: what is tracked, what alerts, and what happens when it fires.
• You build the team. You hire, level, grow, and when needed, manage people out.
• You run the people processes: onboarding, growth plans, a regular feedback cadence, and mentoring across levels.
• You balance product and engineering. You say no to engineering work in business terms and no to product work in risk terms, and you can defend the call either way.
• You push AI adoption in the team and use AI tooling in your own work.

What you bring

• 8+ years as a software engineer in individual contributor roles before moving into management. You don't need to code day to day, but you have coded heavily and still think in architecture and design.
• 2+ years managing engineers as their line manager, with performance and hiring responsibility. Tech lead time does not count here.
• Depth in distributed systems: services, concurrency, data consistency.
• A team you assembled yourself, not only one you inherited: people you hired, levelled and grew.
• A delivery methodology you have run, whether Scrum, Kanban or one you shaped, plus a clear view of testing layers and how to apply them.
• A technical strategy you owned for a team or a domain, tied to OKRs or another form of technical governance.
• An AI-first way of working: you use tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot every day and have driven adoption in a team.
• English at C1 level or above --- it is our working language.

Nice to have

• Real-time or event-driven systems under real load
• Object-oriented and domain-driven design
• Experience under more than one delivery methodology, and a view on how they compare
• A team taken through a monolith-to-services migration or its aftermath, or a team you stabilised
• Managing a team distributed across time zones
• A background in marketplaces, auctions, automotive, payments or trading
• Our stack: TypeScript and NestJS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Angular on web, Flutter on mobile
• German

What we offer

Location: Central Berlin -- hybrid, with 3 days in our office and 2 days from home.

• Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote -- plus 25 "Work from Anywhere" days per year
• 28 days annual leave
• 2× annual career & development conversations
• Company pension with 20% employer contribution
• Fully paid Deutschlandticket (public transport)
• FitX membership or Urban Sports Club subsidy
• Virtual stock options --- share in the upside
• Modern IT setup for your day-to-day work
• Structured onboarding with buddy programme and social events
• Lived diversity: active women's network, meditation & prayer room