Engineering Manager (m/f/d)
Autoscout24•3h ago
Amsterdam (Netherlands); Berlin (Germany); Düsseldorf (Germany); Munich (Germany)OnsiteFull-timeMid Level3+ yrs exp
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Engineering ManagerVp EngineeringSenior Engineering Manager
- A career driven by you . Join AutoScout24 Group and experience life in the fast lane. We're not just leading the market
- we're creating it. We're constantly innovating, evolving and transforming things for our customers. We're driven, ambitious and determined to do our best work, together. For a career that doesn't stand still, where you can put your ideas in the driving seat and change the way the world moves, join our international community.
- As an Engineering Manager , you will lead an engineering team responsible for the backend platform powering one of the Netherlands' largest automotive marketplaces.
- You'll lead a team of approximately 5-6 engineers (currently supported by external engineers during an ongoing platform modernization). The team owns the core backend services that power the entire platform, including:
- Vehicle data ingestion from hundreds of external providers
- Backend services and business logic powering the platform
- Data matching, validation, enrichment and quality
- Search ranking and listing lifecycle management
- Click tracking, billing logic and fraud/bot protection
- Platform reliability, operational excellence and incident management
- The team is currently modernizing its backend platform, migrating from a legacy PHP/Scala stack to Java on AWS.
- What you'll do
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Partner closely with Product to define priorities and successfully deliver the roadmap
- Drive technical excellence, engineering quality and operational maturity
- Lead architecture and technical discussions across multiple teams
- Establish strong operational practices, including on-call processes, incident management and post-incident reviews
- Improve system reliability, scalability and performance for a business-critical platform
- Coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and external dependencies
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives across AutoScout24 Group
- AI & Engineering Productivity
- Operate at a high level of efficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools
- Coach engineers on adopting AI to improve software quality and delivery speed
- Act as a role model for effective AI usage across engineering and leadership activities
- Identify opportunities to integrate AI throughout the software development lifecycle
- Support the team's AI maturity and adoption as part of its ongoing transformation
- Technical environment
- Java (primary language)
- Scala (legacy services)
- PHP (being phased out)
- AWS
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Event-driven architecture
- Distributed backend systems
- What you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
- Strong prior experience as a hands-on software engineer
- Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
- Strong background in object-oriented programming (preferably Java)
- Experience leading architecture and technical decision-making
- Experience introducing and running operational excellence practices, including on-call rotations, incident response and postmortems
- Proven ability to deliver complex cross-team initiatives with multiple stakeholders
- Passion for coaching engineers and building high-performing teams
- Experience driving adoption of modern AI development practices within engineering teams is highly desirable
- A culture of growth
- With over 50 nationalities represented, we’re proud to welcome people of all backgrounds to our growing community. Here, you’ll have the tools, training and support you need to work in a way that suits you, learn new skills and reach your potential.
- For a career where you can drive our business and shape your future, apply now.
Required skills
JavaScalaPHPAWSKafkaPostgreSQLEvent-driven architectureDistributed backend systems