Kaufland e-commerce is looking for an Engineering Manager to build, develop, and enable high-performing product teams. You'll start with hands-on technical tasks to understand our infrastructure before taking on full managerial responsibilities. This is an entry-level position in our Engineering Management career path within a Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts.
What You'll Do
- Build the right team, remove roadblocks, create transparency, and ensure alignment.
- Be responsible for the engineers of 1-3 product teams in a you-build-it-you-run-it environment.
- Contribute hands-on to a certain percentage of your time depending on team size.
- Help engineers grow personally and professionally by advancing their skills and inspiring them through purpose.
- Ensure the leverage of technology within product teams to build products customers love.
- Be responsible for product delivery while balancing time, budget, and quality.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives larger than your team(s), such as raising the engineering bar and improving guidelines.
What We're Looking For
- Vast experience in engineering scalable web applications within cross-functional product teams.
- Experience as an Engineering Manager solving engineering problems with appropriate tools and frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with PHP and JavaScript.
- Outstanding sense of ownership, passion, and drive.
- Excellent communication skills, especially in a remote setup.
- Some experience in a management role and building successful teams.
- A natural go-to-person within an organization, mentoring other engineers.
- Willingness to go the extra mile, give honest feedback, and discuss, commit, and execute.
- Fluent in English (C1) and enjoy working in an international environment.
Technical Stack
- PHP
- JavaScript
Team & Environment
You'll join a Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts. This is an entry position in the Engineering Management career path, reporting directly to the Head of Product Engineering.
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexibility to work remotely within Germany or from offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or a co-working space in Berlin.
- Attractive relocation package for candidates moving to Germany.
- Urban Sports Club and RSG Group Fitness Studios deals.
- Mental well-being support via Instahelp platform.
- 30 days of vacation per year and sabbatical opportunity.
- Option for Pluxee restaurant vouchers.
- Subsidised 'Deutschlandticket' train season ticket.
- Monthly employee discount coupon for Kaufland.de.
- Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux.
- Growth support: online language learning, in-house training, 360-degree feedback, and covered costs for conferences and workshops.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position with flexibility to work remotely within Germany or from our offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, or a co-working space in Berlin.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt.
