Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)

📋 Description

• Lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and the selling modalities at the core of the platform
• Own the team's technical direction: set the strategy for the auction domain, tie it to OKRs, and
• Own delivery and quality: run the delivery method, decide which testing layers carry which risks
• Own the team's technical metrics: what is tracked, what alerts, and what happens when it fires.
• Build the team: hire, level, grow, and when needed, manage people out.
• Run the people processes: onboarding, growth plans, a regular feedback cadence, and mentoring

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years as a software engineer in individual contributor roles before moving into management
• 2+ years managing engineers as their line manager, with performance and hiring responsibility (tech
• Depth in distributed systems: services, concurrency, data consistency
• A team you assembled yourself, not only one you inherited: people you hired, levelled and grew
• A delivery methodology you have run (Scrum, Kanban or one you shaped), plus a clear view of testing
• A technical strategy you owned for a team or a domain, tied to OKRs or another form of technical

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote – plus 25 "Work from Anywhere" days per year
• 28 days annual leave
• 2× annual career & development conversations
• Company pension with 20% employer contribution
• Fully paid Deutschlandticket (public transport)
• FitX membership or Urban Sports Club subsidy