Software Engineering Manager (dfm)

• Location: Munich Germany
• Employment Type: Full-Time indefinite term
• Salary Range: 115.000 - 135.000 per year gross depending on the seniority level
• Office-first work setup
• Language Requirement: C1 Level English

• Set direction and strategy for your team while ensuring individual contributors own the design and delivery of their work.
• Be a technically deep sounding board: engage directly in design discussions review proposals and give specific high quality feedback that sharpens your engineers decisions.
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence and ownership with a high bar for quality reliability and speed.

AI

• Champion AI assisted engineering and set the standard for how tools like Claude are used in daily development.
• Define and drive the teams AI strategy: identify where AI creates real leverage in our products and workflows and turn that into measurable outcomes.

People

• Coach and grow your engineers owning their technical development performance and career progression.
• Work closely with recruiters and the leadership team to attract and hire high potential candidates.

Organization and delivery

• Find knowledge and skill gaps on the team and actively close them through coaching hiring and structural changes.
• Improve processes to increase speed and effectiveness of delivery without adding bureaucracy.
• Partner with executives and leads on decision making program management and execution.
• Track complex dependencies across internal and external teams and keep delivery on course.
• Shape the companys culture

• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related tech field
• 5 years working experience in software development and 2 years of leadership experience ideally in backend development and cloud platforms
• Extensive experience in leading mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Strong proficiency in backend development: object-oriented programming (e.g. Python) cloud (e.g. AWS) virtualization and containerization (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) IaC (e.g. CDK) workflow orchestration (e.g. WS step functions) Observability (e.g. Datadog Loki Prometheus Tempo Grafana)
• A leadership style built on ownership: you enable engineers to own design and delivery rather than owning it for them.
• Hands on experience with AI coding tools such as Claude and a clear point of view on integrating them into engineering workflows.
• Experience in strategic technical cross team coordination and leadership
• Ability to identify and track complex dependencies across multiple internal and external teams

• Energy Trading Experience
• A track record of defining and rolling out an AI adoption strategy for an engineering team.

• You havent worked in a start-up environment
• You believe the manager should own the architecture and make the technical calls. Here that is the engineers job.

• Competitive Compensation Package: Including salary benefits and options
• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3000 for coachings trainings books etc.
• Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
• Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
• Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
• Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
• Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions Afterwork Sports Offsites Halloween Pride Month etc.

• At Lyft () I initially built the in-car middleware system for autonomous driving. Later my team and I developed the in-house mapping stackincluding the routing engine and estimated-time-of-arrival (ETA) systempowering millions of rides.
• At Apple () I led a team in the Special Projects Group focused on autonomous systems.
• At Siemens () I spearheaded software development for a startup within Siemens creating a hardware/software platform for autonomous electric vehicles.