Engineering Manager (Infra)

justmarkets; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 vacation days

10 sick leave days

Public holidays

Medical insurance

Remote work option

Education budget

Language learning budget

Wellness budget

Job summary

justmarkets is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale engineering teams building a high-performance trading platform. You will own people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role.
• Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains.
• Strong understanding of backend systems.
• Experience operating systems on different cloud systems (EC2, networking, security, monitoring).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage one or multiple cross-functional engineering teams (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile).
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams.
• Own strategic initiatives in engineering department.
• Partner with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution.
• Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management.
• Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, while maintaining delivery velocity.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented.

Skills

Leadership

Backend systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Fintech domain

Mentoring

Tools

Ruby

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our engineering teams building a high-performance trading platform. You will be responsible for people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical direction across a hybrid infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, infrastructure, and business, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and scalability in a latency-sensitive environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage one or multiple cross-functional engineering teams (backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile)
• Own delivery, quality, and technical outcomes for your teams
• Own strategic initiatives in engineering department
• Partner closely with Product, Trading, and Senior Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical execution
• Drive and evolve engineering processes: planning, estimation, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, and release management
• Guide architectural decisions for systems running on hybrid infrastructure
• Ensure high availability, performance, and observability of production systems
• Identify and reduce technical debt, while maintaining delivery velocity
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and grow engineers; conduct 1:1s and performance reviews
• Foster a culture of ownership, customer first, and result-oriented

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years in an Engineering Manager role
• Background in financial systems, trading platforms, or other high-reliability domains
• Strong understanding of backend systems
• Experience operating systems on different cloud systems (EC2, networking, security, monitoring)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and performance monitoring

Will be a plus

• Experience working with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid environments
• Hands-on experience in Ruby
• Experience with low-latency or high-throughput systems
• Exposure to trading, fintech, or market-data platforms
• Experience scaling teams and systems
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools

We offer

• 20 paid vacation days per year
• 10 paid sick leave days per year
• Public holidays as per the company's approved Public holiday list
• Medical insurance
• Opportunity to work remotely
• Professional education budget
• Language learning budget
• Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)