Engineering Manager - AI-powered features (w/d/m)
Company Overview
HELLO THERE! PEOPLE AT HUMANOO ARE HAPPY TO GREET YOU! You care about building tech that’s smart but also human. As our Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the team steering AI-powered experiences at Humanoo (now part of Telus Health).You’ll guide work on features like burnout prediction, real-time nudges, and LLM copilots - all privacy-first, opt-in, and carefully reviewed for ethical impact. Across both mobile and web.It’s modern, modular tech. It’s about making wellbeing feel essential. And it needs someone like you at the helm.
HUMANOO is an automated Digital Corporate Wellness Solution for corporations and insurance worldwide that helps people lead healthier lives.Humanoo helps users improve physical and mental health by offering customised, on-demand programmes for fitness, yoga, mindfulness, sleep, and nutrition.Humanoo's pioneering vision allows users to be rewarded for health activity through monetary and non-monetary rewards, leading to sustained engagement and study-based health improvement.More than 1500 companies in over 10 countries are already successfully using Humanoo to make their employees and clients healthier and more productive. TK, Coca-Cola, Axel Springer, Korian, Nürnberger Versicherung, and CSS are only some companies using Humanoo.For more information: https://www.humanoo.com/
Job Summary
You care about building tech that’s smart but also human. As our Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the team steering AI-powered experiences at Humanoo (now part of Telus Health).You’ll guide work on features like burnout prediction, real-time nudges, and LLM copilots - all privacy-first, opt-in, and carefully reviewed for ethical impact. Across both mobile and web.It’s modern, modular tech. It’s about making wellbeing feel essential. And it needs someone like you at the helm.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team of backend, frontend, and mobile engineers working on AI features like nudges, burnout prediction and personalised wellbeing journeys for our users
- You'll collaborate closely with our Data Team, and use their data infrastructure, data pipelines and LLM's to create create features for both our mobile app, Humanoo, and our client-facing app, HealthOS
- Ensure delivery excellence, team health, and a sustainable pace
- Coach and support engineers in their career development
- Drive our Product and Engineering strategy forward together with Product, Data & AI, Design, and Engagement teams to deliver impactful, privacy-safe AI features
- Provide technical leadership in scalable architecture, modularisation, and real-time data integration
Requirements / Qualifications
- Experience leading engineering teams (of at least 5 people) in a cross-functional, agile environment
- Strong expertise in our backend tech stack (especially Java), in driving architectural reviews and in cross-teams changes
- A strong product engineering skillset, with a customer-focused mindset
- Strong collaboration, communication and stakeholder management skills in English
- Practical experience building or integrating ML/AI-powered features
- A drive for quality, speed, and continuous improvement
- Familiarity with real-time event systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub), REST APIs, and containerised deployments
- Understanding of privacy-conscious product design and the GDPR
Location
Berlin, Germany, Remote: False
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
A sneak peek into your benefits:
- Additional health insurance coverage for 900 EUR per year
- 30 days of remote work allowance
- Up to 33 days annual vacation allowance (28 base days, + yearly tenure bonus up to 3 days, + 2 days for using the Humanoo app!)
- Subsidy for your UrbanSportsClub membership
- 70 EUR monthly cashback to cover daily expenses
- 500 EUR yearly personal learning and development budget
- Self-development days allowance (workshops, conferences, training sessions etc.)
- Team events and company events
- Referral bonus for employees
- Corporate benefits
- Humanoo for Humanoos!
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental well-being
Please note: our offices close over the Christmas and New Year period for approximately two weeks. We gift the 24th and 31st December as extra vacation days and any additional non-public holiday days during this time will be taken from your annual leave.
Application Process
INTERVIEW PROCESS
- Your first interview: A call with a member of our Talent Acquisition team
- Your second interview: A focus on your system design skills, with a Miro whiteboarding session
- Your third interview: A focus on leadership skills, with our Head of People
- Your final interview: An on-site interview with our CPO and co-CEO
YOUR APPLICATION
We appreciate your interest in Humanoo. Please fill in the following short form. Should you have any difficulties in uploading your files, please contact us by mail at [email protected]
Equal Opportunity Statement
What we stand for:
- Customer First: We create meaningful, human connections to improve outcomes for our customers and our communities, powered by our world-leading technology, collective ingenuity and culture of caring.
- Embrace Change: We challenge the status quo, experimenting and taking calculated risks to differentiate ourselves from our peers and deliver consistently leading results.
- Grow Together: We welcome everyone to bring their whole self to work, appreciating our uniqueness and always standing together as one team.
We're happy to consider candidates who already have the right to work in Germany or can secure it independently (for example, through a Blue Card, Opportunity Card, Dependent Visa or so on). However, kindly note that we’re currently unable to provide additional visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.
