Engineering Manager (all genders) - Order & Buy

Anstellungsdetails

Permanent contract, Full- and Part-Time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf

Info

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.

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work up to 100% remotely (within Germany). We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day by day, our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: https://kaufland-ecommerce.com/en/team/tech-en/.

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.
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. This approach enables you to understand the technical challenges your team encounters deeply, setting you and the team up for future wins.

Aufgaben

Your tasks – this is what awaits you in detail

• You have found your passion in software development, but you enjoy building the right team, removing roadblocks, fostering growth, creating transparency, and driving alignment even more than being an individual contributor
• You will be responsible for a product team of 3-10 engineers in a you-build-it-you-run-it environment, focused on cart, checkout, and order fulfillment features
• Even though you are leading the team as an Engineering Manager, you will still contribute hands-on to a certain percentage of your time, helping solve technical challenges and optimizing key workflows
• You will support engineers in growing personally and professionally by advancing their technical skills, inspiring them through purpose, and fostering ownership
• You will ensure that we leverage (new) technologies and modular architectures within our product teams to build scalable products that delight customers and meet business objectives
• You are responsible for delivering your products while maintaining a balance between time, budget, and quality, driving the success of key features like state machines, A/B testing, and secure authentication mechanisms
• You will contribute to strategic initiatives beyond your team(s), such as raising the engineering bar, refining development practices, and shaping how we work as an organization

Profil

Your profile – this is what we expect from you

• You have worked in cross-functional product teams and bring extensive experience in building scalable web applications, particularly in cart, checkout, and order fulfillment domains
• You are an experienced Engineering Manager adept at solving complex engineering problems using tools and frameworks suited to both the problem domain and the team’s tech stack, which predominantly includes PHP, Symfony, Node.js or Go, and modern frontend technologies like Vue 3.0
• You have a strong sense of ownership, passion, and energy that inspires those around you and drives the success of your team
• Your communication skills are on point, and you know what matters, especially in a remote setup
• You have proven experience in management roles, building high-performing teams, and are eager to grow further as a successful Engineering Manager
• You are a trusted mentor within your organization, supporting engineers in their professional and personal growth and helping them thrive
• You are willing to go above and beyond to ensure your team’s success, provide constructive feedback, and confidently discuss, commit to, and execute on strategic decisions

Benefits

What we offer

• Create your own work-life balance: Work remotely (within Germany) or at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 65 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany? No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital onboarding program, our all-hands meetings and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boost your growth : Benefit from our online language learning offers, our various in-house training offers as well as our automated 360-degree feedback to boost your personal and professional growth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• ‘ Deutschlandticket ’: We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness, team sports, yoga and more

• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company Check out our Principles & our blog for even more insights into our company culture!

  Diversity at Kaufland e-commerce

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) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity. Read more here!

Bewerben

Why are you the perfect fit for this position?
Don't bother with cover letters - we're interested in facts and figures!

How would you like to be addressed?
Feel free to add the following pronouns "she/her", "him/he" or "they/them" optionally (e.g. after your name) in your CV.

As we have very international teams, we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.

Ansprechpartner

Your contact person: Kristina Heymann

Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Köln