Engineering Manager - Berlin - freenow

Polluxa, Inc.; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Freenow by Lyft in Berlin is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing software team focused on scaling a new product vertical. You will guide innovative, large-scale systems that connect customers, drivers, and cities, translating strategy into deliverable software.

You will foster technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous development, while aligning engineering efforts with product goals and business impact across Freenow markets.

Aufgaben

• Team Performance & Delivery: Lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus.
• People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence.
• Technical Ownership: Lead technical decision-making for support systems, ensuring high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in large-scale systems.
• Strategic Execution: Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans and align activities with business priorities.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers to maximize business impact with world-class support technology.
• Culture & Team Building: Foster trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback; build a diverse, resilient, and motivated team.

Jobbeschreibung

Location : Come and join us in Berlin!

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of software engineers who are focused on scaling an exciting new product vertical. We are building a complex, intelligent system to modernize the traditional taxi industry. Your goal is to lead the team to transform offline fleets into digital businesses.

This critical role ensures team’s alignment with product and business strategy, while driving efficient delivery of features. You will foster an environment of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous individual development, ultimately maximizing business impact across all Freenow markets through innovation. Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate colleagues who strive for excellence and enjoy their work. Are you ready for your next ride?

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Team Performance & Delivery: Within the frame of quarterly goals and company strategy, lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus. You inspire innovation to disrupt incumbents.
• People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence in building innovative customer and driver support solutions. You get to build a team from the ground up.
• Technical Ownership: In collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals, lead technical decision-making for the support systems. Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions, particularly the large-scale systems handling customer and driver interactions.
• Strategic Execution: Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans. Align team activities with business priorities, ensuring efficient execution and adapting plans as needed.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the main engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers. Build strong relationships to ensure transparency, challenge product decisions where needed, and jointly maximize business impact by providing world-class support technology.
• Culture & Team Building: Foster a team culture based on trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback. Ensure diverse perspectives are heard, encourage curiosity, and build a resilient and motivated team.