Engineering Manager (1-year maternity cover)

Engineering Manager (1-year maternity cover, JD updated 27.10.)

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join us in Berlin or remotely to cover maternity leave . Reporting directly to the CTO, you will support six engineers distributed across two teams: Journey & Lifecycle Marketing.

The Journey team works on products that delight users across their journey with Ecosia’s products, from onboarding to increasing their individual and collective climate impact. The Journey team also enables other teams to deliver their own features behind a user account (e.g. synchronize settings, store chat history, etc).

The Lifecycle and Marketing team works on understanding the user’s journey (acquisition, activation, etc). It connects users with content and products across different marketing channels (in-product communication, emails, landing pages, etc).

As their Engineering Manager, you will enable your engineers to grow professionally, deliver great impact, and be empowered to manage their own tasks effectively. You will support your team to make good technical tradeoffs, assist in staying operationally excellent, and deliver impactful technical solutions.

In collaboration with your Product and Engineering management peers, you will enrich our equitable, inclusive, curious, and fun Engineering culture. Join us to contribute greatly to our planet!

Compensation Range: €93K - €107K

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work alongside the team to overcome technical challenges, ensuring operational excellence, and leveraging your skills to find innovative solutions.
• Ensure the seamless execution and timely delivery of projects and experiments.
• Collaborate with internal Product & Engineering stakeholders across teams to implement cross-team initiatives.
• Enable your team to be professionally capable by removing roadblocks, facilitating decisions, resolving conflicts, improving processes, and providing assistance.
• Hold regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth conversations to plan and support career development, including coaching and mentoring.
• Review team's performance, ensuring compensation and evaluation are fair and equitable.
• Inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement and ensure that engineers continue to learn and share knowledge and insights across teams.
• Co-create a collaborative and inclusive culture in line with our company values.

What You Bring

• You enjoy developing and growing people and have a documented history of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring engineers with different profiles and backgrounds.
• You possess at least 5 years of experience designing and shipping software to production, showcasing the ability to effectively guide the team in initiatives through the whole life cycle (from business problem space to monitoring in the technical solution in production).
• You are comfortable navigating a web technical stack, including cloud and infrastructure-as-code.
• You acknowledge diversity and understand the importance of creating an inclusive workplace (crucial!).
• You have a bias towards action and pragmatism, both in your own work and in your enablement of others.

Process

• Talent Partner call (⏱️ 45')
• Management call (⏱️ 60')
• Technical conversation - system design (⏱️ 1h15')
• Product call (⏱️ 45-60')

Why Ecosia?

What if your job made a real difference in the climate crisis? Join Ecosia and help plant millions of trees where people and ecosystems need them most.

• We are a diverse team, committed to equality, equity, and inclusion, with members from various backgrounds: sexual orientations, genders, ages, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical and mental disabilities, family structures, and religions.
• We offer you the opportunity to balance work with other parts of your life: flexible working hours, 30 vacation days per year (based on a five-day workweek), designated Focus Times, and remote work options.
• Our green benefits program - including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services - supports your sustainable living choices in Berlin.
• We support your professional growth through learning times, hack days, online and physical libraries, and continuous feedback.

Q&A

How many people work at Ecosia?

110 (November 2025): our departments include Engineering (incl. Platform and QA), Product (incl. Design), Trees, Operations (incl. Marketing, B2B & BI), and People.

Where is Ecosia based, and what kind of work setup do we have?

We are a remote-friendly company with one office in Berlin-Wedding. People come to the office or work from home per their wishes and/or circumstances. Some roles require presence in the office at least from time to time. Company language: English.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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