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Engineering Manager - PHP

Kaufland e-commerce

Köln · Hybrid Entry Level 2w ago

About the role

About Us

We operate the international online marketplaces of Kaufland. Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

Day by day, our Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. Building, developing, and enabling high-performing teams who build awesome products is the main responsibility for our Engineering Managers. It’s the entry position in our Engineering Management career path and reports to a Head of Product Engineering.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager joining our team, you will initially focus on hands-on technical tasks like an individual contributor, allowing you to gain a deep understanding of our infrastructure and systems so that you know the code inside and out before adding managerial responsibilities to your plate. You have found your passion in software development, but you

Requirements

  • You have worked in cross-functional product teams and bring a vast experience in engineering of scalable web applications.
  • You are an experienced Engineering Manager who approaches technical challenges pragmatically, choosing tools and architectures that fit both the problem domain and the organization.
  • You communicate clearly and effectively, know how to create alignment, and understand what matters, especially in a remote and distributed setup.
  • You already have some experience in a management role and building successful teams and you are motivated to grow even more in the role of a successful Engineering Manager.
  • You are fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment.

Responsibilities

  • Building, developing and enabling high performing teams who build awesome products is the main responsibility for our Engineering Managers.
  • You will initially focus on hands-on technical tasks like an individual contributor allowing you to gain a deep understanding of our infrastructure and systems so that you know the code inside and out before adding managerial responsibilities to your plate.
  • Based on your experience, you will start by leading the engineers of one product team in a you-build-it-you-run-it environment, with a clear perspective to expand to multiple teams as responsibility and impact grow.
  • Depending on team size and setup, you will remain hands-on to a reasonable extent, especially where technical guidance, architectural decisions, code reviews, or complex problem-solving are needed.
  • You will contribute to strategic initiatives that are larger than your team(s) like raising the engineering bar, improving our guidelines, and defining how we work as an organization.

Benefits

relocation packagemental well-being supportvacationsabbaticalrestaurant vouchersDeutschlandticket subsidyemployee discountlanguage learning programstraining opportunitiesconference coststeam workshops

Skills

Node.jsPHPTypeScriptVue.js

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