[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @sofatutor

Role Description

You’ll lead the engineering team at the heart of sofatutor’s core product – a learning platform used by over a million students, parents, and teachers across the German-speaking market. This is a hands-on leadership role inside a cross-functional unit:

• Work directly with a Senior Product Lead, Content Leads, and a Staff Engineer, owning both the people and the delivery.
• Your team: 10 full-stack engineers (frontend, backend, one mobile).
• Your context: a product that matters, a strong and experienced leadership group, and real room to shape how engineering works here.
• Own the structure, leadership, and further development of the Engineers in the team, with a clear focus on outcomes, quality, and sustainable delivery.
• Coach Engineers (technically & personally), set up growth plans, and establish effective feedback and performance routines.
• Strengthen a collaborative, motivating team culture with ownership, psychological safety, and a high-quality orientation.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Content, and Technical Leaders on roadmap, prioritization, and implementation—and translate goals into realistic plans.
• Continuously refine workflows, agile rituals, and quality standards (e.g., DoR/DoD, release processes, incident learnings).
• Ensure that technical decisions, dependencies, and risks are transparent—and actively steer towards solutions.
• Have experience in hiring, designing onboarding processes, and the professional development of Software Engineers.
• Build structures that enable scaling (e.g., role/leveling clarity, clear responsibilities, knowledge management).
• Help your team adopt AI responsibly: the right tools, at the right stage of the development cycle, with clear ownership of what gets shipped.

Benefits

• Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of life.
• Future benefits: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands.
• Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health.
• BVG: Berlin public transport or “Deutschlandticket” at a discounted price.
• Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities.
• Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club.