Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m)

Join us on our journey: To drive the smart and sustainable energy future, we are looking for a Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m) to oversee strategic tech initiatives from development through to successful execution.

• 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

Technical leadership

• 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 team's 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 company's culture

Mandatory Requirements

• Bachelor's 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

Skills to Set You Apart

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

This role may not be a fit for you if…

• You haven’t 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.

At Entrix, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Package: Including salary, benefits and options
• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € 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.