Engineering Manager - Core Data (Berlin, Germany)

Engineering Manager - Core Data

Company Overview

At Nelly, we’re revolutionizing medical practice management with AI-driven automation and seamless digital workflows. Our innovative solutions - from best-in-class patient journeys, AI enabled patient relationship management and billing to state of the art payment solutions - eliminate painful workflows and improve financial outcomes making healthcare administration smarter, faster, and 100% digital.

To fuel our mission, we just raised €50M in our Series B, backed by top-tier investors like Cathay, Notion, Lakestar, GFC, b2venture, and Motive Partners. With this momentum, we’re on a mission to build Europe’s largest fintech in healthcare - bringing best-in-class financial and operational solutions to over 1 million medical practices serving millions of patients daily.

Join us now if you’re driven by impact, excited by fast-paced innovation, and ready to shape the future of healthcare!

Job Summary

We’re on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Core Data to join our Engineering team at our office in Berlin. Join us in building the largest AI enabled fintech for healthcare!

At Nelly, we’re building data infrastructure that teams actually want to use. Our data doesn’t just flow — it’s discoverable, well-documented, and designed with the developer experience in mind. Every pipeline, schema, and tool we build ultimately serves a single goal: enabling teams to deliver more value to customers. We’re moving beyond basic data pipelines toward a trusted, collaborative platform — one where data consumers can find what they need, understand how to use it, and contribute back to its evolution. These pipelines will power strongly AI-enabled products and user flows.

As an Engineering Manager, Core Data Platform, you'll be joining a freshly launched team — shaping technical direction, guiding team, and building the platform capabilities that make future growth sustainable. If you're energized by building teams, defining strategy in ambiguous spaces, and ensuring infrastructure enables rather than blocks progress, this is your opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical and data strategy for our Unified Data Platform domain, balancing immediate automation needs with foundational capabilities
• Shape practices and processes for a newly-formed team to enable high-velocity delivery
• Proactively identify platform needs by understanding use cases across product and engineering teams
• Make strategic staffing decisions, identifying skill gaps and driving hiring for diverse profiles
• Guide technical decision-making and influence company-wide technical direction as part of engineering leadership
• Translate technical complexity into actionable insights and tasks for technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements / Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of overall experience in the industry.
• Strong technical background in data platforms, backend infrastructure, or similar domains
• Experience with NodeJS, Python, and data infrastructure technologies (data catalogs, APIs, schema management, governance tools)
• Strategic mindset balancing short-term needs with long-term technical investments
• Track record of technical leadership guiding teams through complex challenges
• Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into concrete implementation plans
• Hiring experience for specialized roles (data platform, backend, AI engineers)
• Proactive problem discovery - anticipating issues before they become blockers
• Clear communication translating technical concepts into business impact and actionable tasks

Location

Berlin, Germany, Remote: false

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Top of the line working equipment
• Generous budget for learning and development activities
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work mode in Berlin
• 4 weeks workation possibility
• Cozy and dog friendly office in the city centre
• BVG Ticket or Swapfiets subscription
• Urban Sports membership

Application Process

We are looking forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to the team.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We celebrate diversity and encourage individuals of all genders (m/f/d) to apply.