Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Berlin (Hybrid)

High-Growth Identity Infrastructure Startup

Up to €120k + strong benefits

English-speaking environment

Lead the Team Building the Future of Digital Identity.

A fast-scaling technology company in Berlin is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing product engineering team.

The platform helps businesses and individuals take ownership of their digital identity, privacy, and data through secure, decentralised infrastructure used across industries and borders.

This is a chance to lead a mission-critical product team building complex systems at scale, while staying close to architecture, technical decisions, and product strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team across backend, frontend, and platform engineering
• Drive delivery of complex product features across a multi-component platform
• Work closely with product, design, and infrastructure teams to shape roadmap and execution
• Act as a technical leader for architecture, scalability, performance, and system reliability
• Improve engineering standards across code quality, testing, CI/CD, and best practices
• Break down complex technical challenges into clear, actionable delivery plans
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting career growth and team development
• Help build a strong engineering culture with high ownership, collaboration, and fast execution

Tech Stack

• TypeScript / Node.js / React (core focus)
• AWS Serverless / Cloud Infrastructure
• Microservices / Event-Driven Architecture
• Developer tooling including APIs, SDKs, and platform workflows

Strong engineering leadership matters more than exact tooling.

You Should Have

• Strong experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced product environments
• Hands-on technical leadership with strong backend and system design fundamentals
• Ability to balance people leadership with architecture and technical decision-making
• Experience building and scaling production-grade systems in cloud-native environments
• Strong understanding of clean architecture, testing, and engineering best practices
• Comfort working cross-functionally with product, design, and senior stakeholders
• A pragmatic mindset with a focus on delivery, quality, and team performance

Bonus

• Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tooling
• Background in privacy, security, identity, or infrastructure-heavy products
• Exposure to Go, Rust, or other modern backend languages
• Strong documentation and architectural decision-making practices

Culture

• Customer-first and product-driven
• High trust, high ownership environment
• Fast-moving international team
• Strong focus on experimentation and continuous improvement
• Hybrid in Berlin with flexible working and real collaboration

If you want to lead engineers, shape architecture, and build meaningful infrastructure at scale, this is the role.