Engineering Manager Backend - Partner Homes (all genders)

You will be part of the Partner Homes Experience Department and Engineering Manager for the Connectivity Team. Together with your team, you will own the platform which enables partners and integrators to ingest and manage all of our 6+ million apartments. You will be responsible for our feature development, bringing our platform architecture to the next level allowing it to scale.

• We are writing our applications and microservices in Java, with Spring Boot, running on Kubernetes.

• Data storage with Elasticsearch 7, PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, Redis.

• Streaming and queuing systems like Kafka and ActiveMQ.

• Heavy usage of AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git.

• Monitoring with ELK, Grafana. 

• Internally developed process monitoring based on AWS Firehose, Athena and Looker.

• As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the functional and disciplinary leadership of a cross-functional team of 7 engineers. Together with your team, you will implement innovative technical solutions across our systems used by partners and internal stakeholders (Guest Experience, Customer Happiness, Business Development). 

• Work closely with your engineers to develop high-quality solutions in cross-functional projects. This includes both leading the implementation of new features to support our growth, as well as ensuring all of the existing processes work correctly and efficiently.

• Tackle team tasks by dedicating a portion of your time to active coding.

• Ensure our applications are stable and highly scalable, able to support the high growth trajectory of the company.

• Focus on the growth of your team by offering continuous constructive feedback, supporting and encouraging them on their growth path, and recruiting new engineers.

• Work closely with product management, product design, and stakeholders to understand the business context and define the team's goals and roadmap.

• Collaborate with peers, staff engineers, and other stakeholders to drive strategic technology decisions.

• Foster a culture of ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity within your team and the entire department.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven track record as a successful software engineer building backend and/or frontend applications.

• Experience with Java/Kotlin/Spring. Additional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript/React is a plus. 

• Experience providing technical leadership (e.g. setting goals and priorities, high-scale system design, task planning, and code reviews).

• Strong background in system architecture and designing microservice landscapes

• Experience as a team leader, with the ability to build an excellent team culture based on mutual respect, empathy, learning, and support for each other.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Able to deal with ambiguity and clarity through communication.

• Strong product thinking and a history of close collaboration with product management within the organization.

• Impact: Make a difference for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
• Growth: Take responsibility from day one and develop through regular feedback, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
• Personal Development: Use your learning budget and 2 extra study days for conferences, books, courses, and more.
• Community: Engage with international, diverse, yet like-minded colleagues through regular events and 2 office days per week with your team.
• Flexibility: Benefit from our hybrid work policy and the chance to work from other local offices for up to 8 weeks a year.
• Fitness: Get a premium gym membership at a discounted rate.
• Travel: Enjoy 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria and the possibility to take up to 10 unpaid vacation days with special discounts on our Holidu Homes properties.