Technical Engineering Manager

Auctionet.com; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days' paid vacation

Flexible holiday swap

8% occupational pension

Parental pay top-up

4,000 SEK wellness grant

Health support services

Annual learning budget

Art Club events and activities

Job summary

Auctionet.com in Stockholm is seeking a Technical Engineering Manager to lead a team primarily focused on internal tooling and products. You'll manage a team of developers and work hands-on with them on projects.

We're looking for someone pragmatic who can contribute to improving the team's performance, delivery, and overall engineering standards. An interest in art and design is a plus, along with strong communication skills. We offer flexible working arrangements and a variety of benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineers, helping individuals and teams grow.
• Hands-on engineering, with depth in web fundamentals: HTTP, SQL, and APIs.
• Experience in shipping user-facing products in small iterations.
• Capability to bring teams through change.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of four developers and one designer.
• Help the team deliver continuously and sustainably.
• Improve team workflows and standards.
• Work hands-on with the team on projects.

Skills

Managing software engineers

Hands-on web development experience

Communication skills

Working with Product Managers and Designers

Job description

Overview

Auctionet is a marketplace where auction houses from Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, Spain, Germany, and Denmark sell furniture, art, design objects, collectibles, and much more. We are now looking for a Technical Engineering Manager who wants to be part of our team and contribute to a fast, reliable marketplace used by over a million buyers.

About the Role

We're hiring our second Engineering Manager for one of our product teams. This is a hands-on leadership role. You're responsible for the developers' growth and performance, and for the team's ability to deliver well - continuously, and at a sustainable pace. With just one team to look after, you'll also work alongside the team on projects, contributing to product work yourself. You'll shape how this works together with the team and the others who lead with you - the Tech Lead on technical direction and feasibility, and Product Managers and Designers in their areas.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the team's four developers and one designer - 1:1s, feedback, growth, performance management, hiring, and onboarding.
• Helping the team deliver well - continuously and sustainably, working with Product Managers and Designers on planning, prioritisation, and unblocking.
• Improving how the team works - ways of working and team building.
• Raising engineering standards - testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Working hands-on with the team on projects - building features, fixing bugs, reviewing code, and pairing where it helps, plus the support tasks the team gets assigned.

This role is based in Stockholm, hybrid (partly remote possible). Working language is English, and we're looking to start from August - flexible on the exact date for the right person.

About the Team

You'll be the Engineering Manager for our Auctionet Backoffice Team - a six-person product team working mainly on internal tooling and products. Your people-management responsibility is for the team's four developers and one designer.

The team builds in Ruby on Rails, with Turbo, Stimulus, and PostgreSQL. We care about how we build: maintainable code, solid test coverage, continuous deployment, and the kind of well-established best practices that keep a codebase healthy over years rather than months.

Auctionet runs the leading online marketplace for European auction houses - art, design, furniture, and antiques. We have around 170 employees and are the parent company of a wider group with roughly 400 colleagues across multiple countries. Our main office is near Stureplan in central Stockholm, with logistics centres in Malmö, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Westbury, and Köln.

About You

You're pragmatic, you communicate clearly, and you help the team keep moving.

To succeed in this role, we think you have:

• Experience managing software engineers - not only as a project or tech lead, and you've helped individuals and teams grow.
• Still hands-on as an engineer - happy to pick up real work and ship it. You don't need our specific stack, but you must have solid web development experience and real depth in the fundamentals: HTTP, relational databases and SQL, APIs, testing, CI/CD.
• Used to shipping user-facing product in small iterations.
• Experience helping teams through change - bringing people with you.
• Good at working with others - your team, other teams, Product Managers, Designers, Tech Leads, and stakeholders across Auctionet; comfortable in English (Swedish is a plus).

Bonus and not mandatory:

• Interest in art, design, or collectibles.

Benefits

• 30 days' paid vacation.
• Flexible holiday swap - trade two public holidays for ones you choose.
• 8% occupational pension - on top of your salary.
• Parental pay - a top-up to your paid parental leave.
• Wellness - a 4,000 SEK yearly grant, plus one paid hour a week during working hours.
• Health support - counselling, rehabilitation, and income support during long-term sick leave.
• Learning & development - an annual budget for courses, conferences, and professional growth.
• Art Club - events, exhibitions, and openings through our staff association.

... and a few more perks beyond these.

How we hire

We see hiring as a two-way thing. We're mindful of your time, but we also want to spend enough of it together for both of us to get a real feel for working as a team - a short intro call, then two or three conversations with the team, and a small take-home exercise you can do in your own time. No whiteboard puzzles - we'd rather talk through real work together.

Apply By

We will be reviewing applications continuously.

If you're excited about this role but don't tick every box for the role, we'd still love to hear from you. Very few people match every point - so if you're close and motivated, please apply.

Who We Are

Auctionet was founded in 2011 by a team of people with unique experience of online auctions. Read more about Auctionet here.

In 2021 Auctionet acquired the auction house Stockholms Auktionsverk, and we are now by far the largest auction marketplace in the Nordics, and one of the larger auction marketplaces in the world. With this acquisition, Auctionet owns and operates both the oldest auction house in the world (1674) and the second oldest (1681), which means we have been working with sustainability for 350(!) years.

Join us in our vision to make valued objects accessible for everyone, from everywhere!

Collaborator Auctionet Product and Development Locations Auctionet Stockholm HQ Remote status Hybrid