Kaufland e-commerce is seeking an Engineering Manager (all genders) for our Explore & Discover area. This entry-level management role is designed for someone ready to build, develop, and enable a high-performing team, starting with hands-on technical tasks to understand our infrastructure before fully embracing managerial responsibilities. You will lead engineers in a product team within our dynamic, you-build-it-you-run-it environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead the engineers of one product team with the perspective to expand to multiple teams as your responsibility grows.
- Remain hands-on to a reasonable extent for technical guidance, architectural decisions, code reviews, or complex problem-solving.
- Help engineers grow personally and professionally by advancing their skills and inspiring them through purpose.
- Ensure leverage of (new) technology within product teams to build products customers love.
- Be accountable for delivery and reliability of teams' products, balancing scope, quality, performance, and operational stability in a high-traffic B2C environment.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives larger than your team(s), like raising the engineering bar, improving guidelines, and defining how we work as an organization.
What We're Looking For
- Experience working in cross-functional product teams.
- Vast experience in engineering scalable web applications.
- Experience as an Engineering Manager approaching technical challenges pragmatically.
- Outstanding sense of ownership, passion, and drive.
- Clear and effective communication skills, ability to create alignment, especially in a remote/distributed setup.
- Some experience in a management role and building successful teams.
- Ability to mentor other engineers and help them grow.
- Willingness to go the extra mile for team success, ability to give honest feedback, and to discuss, commit, and execute.
- Fluent in English (C1 level).
- Enjoy working in an international environment.
Technical Stack
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- Modern frontend tooling
- Node.js
- PHP
Team & Environment
You will join a Tech & Product Team of about 400 experts and report directly to a Head of Product Engineering. Our dynamic culture merges start-up mentality with large corporation opportunities, featuring flat hierarchies and a highly motivated, international team of over 65 nationalities.
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.
- Opportunity for a sabbatical after a certain period.
- Option for tax-advantaged Pluxee restaurant vouchers.
- Subsidised 'Deutschlandticket' train season ticket.
- Monthly employee discount coupon for Kaufland.de.
- Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux.
- Online language learning programs, diverse in-house training, automated 360-degree feedback.
- Covered costs for relevant conferences, training, and approved team workshops.
- Digital onboarding journey, buddy program, regular team and company events.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Germany. You can work from our offices in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, a co-working space in Berlin, or remotely within the country.
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 (German Diversity Charter).
