Engineering Manager
Skills
About the role
Engineering Manager
Berlin (Hybrid)
High-Growth Identity Infrastructure Startup
Up to €120k + strong benefits
English-speaking environment
Lead the Team Building the Future of Digital Identity.
A fast-scaling technology company in Berlin is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing product engineering team.
The platform helps businesses and individuals take ownership of their digital identity, privacy, and data through secure, decentralised infrastructure used across industries and borders.
This is a chance to lead a mission-critical product team building complex systems at scale, while staying close to architecture, technical decisions, and product strategy.
What You’ll Do
Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team across backend, frontend, and platform engineering
Drive delivery of complex product features across a multi-component platform
Work closely with product, design, and infrastructure teams to shape roadmap and execution
Act as a technical leader for architecture, scalability, performance, and system reliability
Improve engineering standards across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and best practices
Break down complex technical challenges into clear, actionable delivery plans
Coach and mentor engineers, supporting career growth and team development
Help build a strong engineering culture with high ownership, collaboration, and fast execution
Tech Stack
TypeScript / Node.js / React (core focus)
AWS Serverless / Cloud Infrastructure
Microservices / Event-Driven Architecture
Developer tooling including APIs, SDKs, and platform workflows
Strong engineering leadership matters more than exact tooling.
You Should Have
Strong experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced product environments
Hands-on technical leadership with strong backend and system design fundamentals
Ability to balance people leadership with architecture and technical decision-making
Experience building and scaling production-grade systems in cloud-native environments
Strong understanding of clean architecture, testing, and engineering best practices
Comfort working cross-functionally with product, design, and senior stakeholders
A pragmatic mindset with a focus on delivery, quality, and team performance
Bonus
Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tooling
Background in privacy, security, identity, or infrastructure-heavy products
Exposure to Go, Rust, or other modern backend languages
Strong documentation and architectural decision-making practices
Culture
Customer-first and product-driven
High trust, high ownership environment
Fast-moving international team
Strong focus on experimentation and continuous improvement
Hybrid in Berlin with flexible working and real collaboration
If you want to lead engineers, shape architecture, and build meaningful infrastructure at scale, this is the role.
Compensation
This Engineering Manager role pays $120k/yr. Within typical range for engineering manager roles in Germany.
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