Engineering Manager - Platform

Overview

Your mission is to bridge the gap between "infrastructure" and "developer success". You will transform our platform from a set of tools and processes into a cohesive internal product. You will lead a team of engineers through a period of growth and establish a "paved road" that allows our product teams to ship with zero friction.

The Impact: Driving High-Velocity Delivery

You aren’t inheriting a fixed roadmap or team, you are shaping it! Working together with our Staff Engineer, you will define what good looks like and how to become a high performing team. You will oversee delivery timelines, scope and are not afraid of making highly impactful decisions. You don’t care about the ticket throughput, you care about work done.

Responsibilities

• Ambiguity: You are not afraid of working with ambiguous requirements and turning them into concrete deliverables. You are comfortable making trade-off decisions and understand that “perfect is the enemy of done”.
• Team Evolution: You act as a coach and a talent magnet. You will be responsible for the growth, performance, and structure of the Platform unit, ensuring we have a vocal, collaborative, and high-performing culture through continuous learning.
• Raise the Bar: You drive Platform excellence, may it be developer experience, infrastructure or SRE. Communication: You communicate regularly with the other Engineering Managers, manage their expectations and hold them accountable for delivery dependencies.

Qualifications

• High Agency: You don't wait for permission to fix a glaring problem. You build the business case, get the buy-in, and get it done.
• Execution-Focused: You have a track record of taking complex initiatives across the finish line. You understand that "80% done" is often where the most critical technical debt lives, and you have the discipline to drive projects to true 100% completion.
• Strong opinions, weakly held: You have strong opinions on how things should be done, but you are Okay to disagree and commit in order to move forward.

Benefits

• Private pension plan with 20% employer contribution up to a monthly cap.
• Subsidised healthy meals via BellaBona.
• 28 vacation days per year, increasing with tenure.
• Full mental and physical health support.
• Hybrid setup: 3 days a week in our Berlin HQ, right in the heart of Sch‘neberg.
• Continuous learning through LinkedIn Learning and L&D budget.
• Fair pay and benefits tailored to local markets.
• Mystery Rides: Quarterly voucher to enjoy personal trips around the world with Blacklane and experience our service from a guest’s perspective.

EEO Statement

We place great value on equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome everyone to apply!