Engineering Manager (w/m/d)

Location: Berlin, Germany; remote workplace

Company

hirify.global operates Immowelt, a European real estate platform serving over 50 million monthly users across B2C and B2B journeys.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team of 4–9 engineers, including hiring, mentoring, feedback, and performance development.
• Own end-to-end delivery through planning, prioritisation, dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with Product on roadmaps and OKRs while reporting progress, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Contribute hands-on to architecture, prototypes, service design, integrations, data models, and critical code paths, approximately 40% of the role.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident management, clean architecture, performance optimisation, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the ground-up architectural rebuild of the core platform domain, including systems handling millions of data rows and thousands of requests per second.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years of people management experience with ownership of team outcomes.
• Track record of delivering high-quality software predictably.
• Strong experience in system design and distributed architectures.
• Ability to balance process and pragmatism while improving quality without unnecessary complexity.
• Experience with modern cloud environments such as AWS, CI/CD, and containerisation.
• Familiarity with observability and operational excellence practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; English is required.
• Curiosity and adaptability to learn new technologies and domains quickly.
• Technical depth for solving sharded PostgreSQL challenges at terabyte scale and high-throughput distributed systems problems.

Nice to have

• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Product-driven, international environment focused on ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Hands-on leadership combining technical contribution with people management.
• Equal-opportunity workplace welcoming diverse backgrounds, identities, disabilities, parents, and carers.
• Reasonable adjustments and part-time or flexible working requirements can be discussed during the application or interview process.

Hiring process

• Apply through the provided application link and optionally include preferred pronouns.
• Contact the hiring team if reasonable adjustments or part-time or flexible working requirements need to be discussed.