Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Redcare Pharmacy; Köln; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Urban Sports Club membership

Mental health support

Work from home up to 20 days/year

Deutschland Ticket

Personal development

And many more

Zusammenfassung

Redcare Pharmacy in Köln is seeking an Engineering Manager (m/f/d) to lead multiple cross‑functional engineering teams responsible for customer‑facing products and internal platforms. You will provide clear direction, empower teams to own outcomes, and translate priorities into reliable delivery and measurable impact.

Working with Product and business stakeholders, you will shape solutions that create customer and business value.

Qualifikationen

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams in a product‑oriented environment.
• Strong track record of creating direction, driving execution, and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Passion for coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow.

Aufgaben

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop multiple engineering teams, fostering ownership and continuous improvement.
• Establish a clear engineering agenda based on team strengths and opportunities.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape priorities balancing customer value, delivery, and technical excellence.
• Create clarity around priorities and ownership; proactively manage risks and ensure follow‑through.
• Provide technical direction and mentor engineers; avoid acting as an individual contributor.
• Collaborate with leaders and stakeholders to drive cross‑team initiatives and resolve conflicts.
• Use data and outcomes to improve delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Strategic planning

Clear communication

Jobbeschreibung

Company Description

As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting‑edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy, collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”. If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values, join us and begin your #Redcareer today.

About the role

As an Engineering Manager (m/f/d), you will lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams responsible for customer‑facing products and internal platforms. You will provide clear direction, empower teams to take ownership, and ensure that engineering priorities translate into reliable delivery and measurable impact. Working closely with Product and business stakeholders, you will help shape solutions that create customer and business value.

About the tech landscape

Our teams build and operate cloud‑native, microservice‑based applications following a “you build it, you run it” approach. Cross-functional product teams have end‑to‑end ownership and use modern engineering practices, automation, observability, and data to continuously improve their products and services.

Job Description

About your tasks

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop multiple engineering teams, fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish a clear engineering agenda based on an understanding of the teams’ strengths, challenges, and opportunities.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape priorities and balance customer value, business needs, delivery commitments, and technical excellence.
• Create clarity around priorities and ownership, proactively manage risks, communicate them early, and ensure reliable follow-through on commitments.
• Support engineers through regular feedback, career development, mentoring, and performance management.
• Provide technical direction, help teams address root causes, and steer them towards simple, maintainable solutions without acting as an individual contributor.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and stakeholders, addressing conflicts constructively and driving cross‑team initiatives.
• Use data and measurable outcomes to improve delivery, reliability, cost efficiency, team effectiveness, and customer impact.

Qualifications

About you

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams in a product‑oriented environment.
• A strong track record of creating direction, driving execution, and achieving measurable outcomes.
• A passion for coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow.
• Sufficient technical depth to recognize what good looks like, challenge constructively, and guide teams toward sound decisions.
• A proactive, structured leadership style with strong ownership and follow‑through.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust and effective partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Business.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native architectures, modern software engineering practices, and agile product development.
• Experience in e‑commerce is a plus, but not required.

Additional Information

About your benefits

In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)