Team Manager Frontend Engineering (gn) full-time/ part-time

DKV EURO SERVICE GmbH + Co. KG; Ratingen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Home office options

Career development

Job summary

DKV Mobility seeks a Team Manager Frontend Engineering to lead frontend architecture and set standards across the team. You will drive the evolution of our design system and ensure performance, accessibility, and scalable frontend solutions in collaboration with product, UX, and backend teams.

You will mentor engineers, promote modern practices, and help recruit top talent in a dynamic, agile environment supporting both full-time and part-time work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Several years of software engineering experience with a strong frontend focus.
• Led technical teams and supported engineers' growth.
• Solid understanding of modern software architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the frontend architecture within your area of responsibility.
• Make strategic technology decisions for frontend apps and BFF integrations.
• Establish engineering standards, coding guidelines, testing strategies, and quality standards.
• Drive component reuse, evolution of the design system, accessibility, and frontend performance.
• Promote modern frontend practices, automation, and CI/CD processes.
• Plan and steer technical delivery of initiatives aligned with product goals.
• Support growth and development of frontend engineers and contribute to recruiting.
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Architecture.

Skills

Frontend leadership

Team leadership

API design

Security principles

Observability

CI/CD

Job description

Team Manager Frontend Engineering (gn) full-time/ part-time

Your job at DKV Mobility? As part of a leading European B2B platform for on-the-road payment solutions, you will work in an exciting environment. Our tasks are defined by our Purpose: To drive the transition towards an efficient and sustainable future of mobility. We offer you numerous opportunities to help shape the mobility of tomorrow in a dynamic and agile environment. Our approximately 2,700 employees throughout Europe are united by a common passion: to give their best every day for our customers in more than 50 countries. True to our claim: You drive, we care. Become part of our diverse, dedicated and unique team!

What you can expect

• You define and drive the frontend architecture within your area of responsibility.
• You make strategic technology decisions for frontend applications and their integration with Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) solutions.
• You establish engineering standards, coding guidelines, testing strategies, and quality standards.
• You drive component reuse, the evolution of our design system, accessibility, and frontend performance.
• You promote modern frontend engineering practices as well as automation and CI/CD processes.
• You plan and steer the technical delivery of initiatives while aligning technical roadmaps with product goals.
• You support the growth and development of frontend engineers, foster technical talent, and contribute to recruitment activities.
• You collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, Backend Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Architecture.

What makes you stand out

• You have several years of experience in software engineering, ideally with a strong focus on frontend technologies.
• You have successfully led technical teams and supported the professional and personal development of engineers.
• You possess a solid understanding of modern software architectures and distributed systems.
• You have experience with microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures.
• You understand security principles and consistently apply them when making technical decisions.
• You are familiar with modern approaches to observability, automation, and operational excellence.
• You can translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• You stand out through strong communication skills, leadership capabilities, and a collaborative mindset.

And to applicants who enrich our diverse culture! Regardless of age, gender, origin and sexual identity and orientation. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if equally qualified. This position can be full-time or part-time (min. 30h/week). DKV Mobility is looking for the best talents and knows that these are not always available on a full-time basis. Many of our employees work part-time or in flexible working models.

Why DKV Mobility? Here are five good reasons...

At DKV Mobility, we are team players - because we are only successful together!#teamofteams
You should feel welcome with us from the very beginning!

We've been growing for about 90 years

How we do it? We keep adapting our products and business model to meet changing customer needs. That's how we stay mobile and master every challenge the future holds.

There are also many other good reasons to work at DKV Mobility. For example, we offer you comprehensive company health management, parent-child offices (from 2023) and support you in leasing your eBike through our partner Jobrad!

We attach great importance to work-life balance.

We stand for the compatibility of family and career! That's why we offer flexible working hours and family-friendly working time models. In addition, we rely on a balanced mix of on-site meetings and home office.

We support you in your development

We offer you optimal conditions to familiarize yourself so that you can quickly find your way around and become a part of the team! To further your personal development, we offer you access to a modern learning environment - independent of time and location. This way you can also face the challenges of tomorrow!

We are committed to a net-zero future

After reaching our Green Pledge climate target in 2023 by reducing carbon emissions in our own business operations by 50.4% compared to the base year 2019, we set ourselves ambitious net-zero climate targets. The targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. By 2050, DKV Mobility commits to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain from a 2022 base year. You want to take climate action? Follow us on our road to net-zero.

We are a certified employer

Our employees trust us. As an employer, we regularly receive awards from independent institutes, e.g. as Top Employer Germany and as Great Place to Work!

Did you know that we have received several awards as an employer in recent years?

Have we made you curious? If you still have open questions then please contact Ekaterina Kolesnikova via [e-mail].