Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d) arbeitnow caronsale Berlin · 10/16/2026

Primetime; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

28 days annual leave

Company pension with 20% employer cont

Fully paid Deutschlandticket

Stock options

Modern IT setup

Buddy programme and social events

Diversity and women’s network

Job summary

CarOnSale in Central Berlin is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the TRX team's real-time auction capabilities across multiple time zones. You will own architecture, delivery quality, and AI-enabled workflows while growing a distributed team of engineers.

You will shape technical strategy, align with OKRs, and mentor engineers across levels, ensuring robust systems under heavy load and fast-paced delivery.

Qualifications

• Eight plus years as a software engineer in IC roles before moving into management.
• Two plus years managing engineers as a line manager with performance and hiring responsibility.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and data consistency.

Responsibilities

• Lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and selling modalities.
• Set the team’s technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Own delivery, testing strategy and quality under live auctions.
• Define and track technical metrics, alerts and incident responses.
• Build and grow the team, including hiring, leveling and mentoring.
• Oversee onboarding, growth plans and regular feedback across levels.
• Balance product and engineering priorities, defending decisions in business terms.
• Drive AI adoption and use AI tooling in daily work.

Skills

Software engineering

Line management

Distributed systems

Team building

Delivery methodology

Technical strategy

AI adoption

English proficiency

Tools

TypeScript

NestJS

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Heroku

Angular

Flutter

Job description

Type: Onsite

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.

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

About us

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

• 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

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