Engineering Manager Advertising (d/f/m)

Our Kleinanzeigen team in Berlin is looking for an Engineering Manager Advertising (w/m/d).

Reporting to our Head of Engineering Advertising, you will work closely together to help your team to perform at its best. You will facilitate professional growth of your team, and build a healthy working environment. Here, you will coach, develop and inspire a team of 5-8 Software Engineers. Part of this role is setting clear expectations and goals in alignment with the overall goals of the team.

This is a hybrid role, and our office is based in Berlin Charlottenburg.

What You'll Do

• You will help shape our processes and ways of working. Directly in the team working together with the Team and Tech Leads, or with your peers across the org. We encourage you to contribute to our Communities of Practice and continuously improve process within your team.

• It is important for us that you are part of the team and contribute to hands-on development. We write our services mostly with Java, Kotlin and Spring Boot, and our frontends with React. Our data lives in Kafka, MySQL and Cassandra, and we deploy to Kubernetes and AWS.

• We will help you to understand the advertising domain and its unique challenges if you are not already experienced with it. It is important for us that you have a good understanding of the domain to help your team effectively.

Who You Are

• You are passionate about developing people of different personalities and skills. You have 2+ years of experience in leading, mentoring and coaching team members. You share our love for learning, and want to work in an agile environment

• We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. When a conversation is stuck, you find ways to gently move it forward. Interdisciplinary collaboration is important to you, and you understand when to push through or seek alignment.

• You have strong engineering skills with a proven track record of delivering high-quality outcomes. You know how to design and build effective software, and are familiar with the server- or client-side stack we use.