Engineering Manager (x/f/m)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Deutschlandticket

28 vacation days

Hybrid work

Company health insurance

Company pension (40% subsidy)

DoctoGrowth

Mental health support

Urban Sports Club

Relocation support

Access to AI tools

Job summary

Doctolib GmbH in Berlin seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a 6–7 engineer team, owning delivery, quality and production health end to end. You will define the mission and roadmap with your product partner and defend it to stakeholders.

You will participate in architecture reviews, shape the Scheduling stream, and drive modernization from monolith to services while maintaining security, reliability and scalability standards.

Qualifications

• Have at least 6 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of engineering management experience, including leading a team of 5+ engineers.
• Are credible with senior backend engineers — distributed systems, data modelling, latency and throughput conversations; stay close enough to review PRs.
• Have hands‑on experience modernising a large legacy system, ideally extracting services from a monolith, and keeping a team delivering as ground moves.
• Are an effective communicator who translates company goals into team objectives and speaks up early.
• Think critically with a solution‑oriented approach that brings people with you.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 to 7 engineers, owning delivery, quality and production health end to end.
• Define the mission and roadmap with your product partner and defend it to stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture reviews and shape technical direction for the Scheduling stream.
• Set and uphold security, reliability, performance and scalability standards.
• Recruit, develop and retain engineers through career conversations and feedback.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Backend development

Architecture reviews

Distributed systems

Monolith migration

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

Kotlin

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Tools

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

Kotlin

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Set a new pulse for healthcare!We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team in Berlin.Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.

What you'll do

Your responsibilities include but is not limited to:

• Lead a team of 6 to 7 engineers of mixed seniority, owning delivery, quality and production health end to end — keeping engagement high and standards higher
• Together with your product partner, define the mission and vision for your team and build a roadmap you can defend to stakeholders
• Take part in architecture reviews and help shape the technical direction of the Scheduling stream, including the migration of core scheduling capabilities from the monolith into purpose-built services
• Set and uphold the security, reliability, performance and scalability standards required to remain the most trusted e-health SaaS in Europe
• Partner with Talent and People teams to recruit, develop and retain engineers through career conversations and feedback they can act on
• Embed AI-assisted engineering into how your team works day to day, with a clear and honest view of where it helps and where it does not
• Continuously improve how the team operates — planning, on-call, bug backlog, incident follow-up — so the team spends its energy on what moves the needle

Who you are

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Have at least 6 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of engineering management experience, including leading a team of 5+ engineers through delivery, hiring and growth
• Are credible with senior backend engineers — distributed systems, data modelling, latency and throughput are conversations you can hold and challenge; you stay close enough to the code to review a pull request, without needing to be the one writing it
• Have hands‑on experience modernising a large legacy system, ideally extracting services from a monolith, and know how to keep a team delivering while the ground moves
• Are an effective communicator who can translate company goals into team objectives, and who says the uncomfortable thing early rather than late
• Think critically and objectively, with a solution‑oriented approach that brings people with you

It would be fantastic if you:

• Have worked in a regulated industry such as healthcare or fintech, where privacy and data protection shape design decisions
• Have navigated hyper‑growth environments and understand the trade‑offs they force on architecture and team organisation
• Have formed a considered view on AI coding assistants — their real benefits and their real shortcomings

Life at Doctolib Tech

Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud‑native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.

Our stack in this product area is Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React in the monolith, Kotlin for new services, with Postgres, Redis and Kafka underneath.

We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.

Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.

What we offer

• A Deutschlandticket (Germany‑wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib
• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz
• Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)
• The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much more
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long‑term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club
• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office‑based mode
• Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

Our interview process

Recruiter Interview

System Design Interview

Behavioral Interview

Engineering Manager Case

At least one reference check

We want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent.

Job details

• Permanent position
• Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Kotlin
• Full-time
• Location: Berlin
• Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)
• Start date: as soon as possible

We welcome everyone

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g., pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.

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