[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @ refurbed

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/x) to lead our Platform and Data Engineering teams. These are supporting teams, their mission is to multiply the effectiveness of every product squad at refurbed by providing reliable infrastructure, shared services, clean data, and developer tooling. You will own the technical foundation that product teams build on, and ensure it is stable, scalable, and easy to work with.

Our platform technology stack includes:

• Go
• gRPC
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• RabbitMQ

Infrastructure running on:

• Google Cloud Platform provisioned with Terraform
• Orchestrated with Kubernetes

Our data platform is built with Python on top of BigQuery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing engineers in platform, infrastructure, or data teams
• Experience leading teams where the customer is internal
• Proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent
• Low ego, openness, and belief in autonomy and empowerment
• Experience partnering with product managers and engineering leaders
• Ability to establish feedback loops and metrics
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based environments
• Understanding of data engineering fundamentals
• Comfortable reviewing infrastructure-as-code and participating in architecture reviews
• Solid understanding of backend systems and distributed architectures
• Understanding of SQL and relational database concepts
• Excellent English skills and based in Europe
• Strong background in software engineering, infrastructure, or data systems

Requirements

• Manage and support engineers across the Platform and Data Engineering teams
• Conduct regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and support their personal and professional growth
• Facilitate technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions
• Ensure high-quality engineering outcomes by promoting best practices
• Contribute to code reviews or smaller technical tasks when needed
• Ensure infrastructure and data systems can support refurbed's growth ambitions
• Identify and resolve blockers, surface risks early
• Contribute to company, department, and squad-level planning
• Participate in hiring and team growth
• Strengthen the engineering culture through feedback and knowledge sharing
• Encourage experimentation, learning, and adoption of modern tools
• Define and track success metrics for Platform and Data Engineering

Benefits

• Access to a dedicated learning budget for personal and professional growth
• Private sessions with experts for personal growth and mental health
• Internal workshops for skill development and collaboration
• Fully remote setting with the option to work from the office in Vienna
• Self-organization and flexibility in work hours
• Participation in office weeks and team-building events