Engineering Manager (m/f/d) - Berlin

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Freenow by Lyft in Berlin is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive team performance, empower developers, and own the technical direction of core support infrastructure. You will align engineering initiatives with product and business strategy while fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Join a multinational, collaborative team focused on delivering high-impact features for customers and drivers across Freenow markets.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles, with at least 2 years in leadership positions.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Experience scaling zero-to-one products.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.

Aufgaben

• Lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions within quarterly goals and strategy.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and feedback to team members to support careers and growth.
• Lead technical decision-making for support systems with focus on reliability and observability for critical customer and driver interactions.
• Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans and align with business priorities.
• Act as engineering counterpart to Product and Design to maximize business impact with world-class support tech.

Kenntnisse

Team leadership

People development

Stakeholder collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Kotlin

AWS

Docker

Git

Kafka

ElasticSearch

Jobbeschreibung

Location: Come and join us in Berlin!

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

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.
• Operational Excellence & Incident Management: Own incident response processes for support technology. Ensure alerting and monitoring are in place, bugs are addressed quickly, and technical debt is managed proactively to support long-term sustainability and reliability of the critical customer and driver support infrastructure.

Our Techstack: Java | Kotlin | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch & more

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

• Level of Education: Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related technical field).
• Level of relevant working experience: Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles, and at least 2 years in a leadership or management position.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Experience with scaling zero to one products
• Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.