Engineering Manager (f/m/d) (Remote)

Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

Company Overview

We’re not just building software – we’re on a mission to create space for contractors & tradespeople by equipping them with AI solutions that work the way they do: fast, practical, and AI-first. With Tier 1 Investors from Europe and the US, like Headline and Creandum as well as 30,000+ tradespeople as customer base, we’re scaling across Europe to turn scattered tradespeople into thriving communities.

Job Summary

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll help engineers and teams do their best work. You’ll develop people, create clarity, guide technical discussions, and shape the environment in which strong engineering can happen. You’ll stay close enough to the craft to ask the right questions and support good trade-offs — without being expected to act as the deepest IC in the room.

Key Responsibilities

• The growth of engineers: You’ll support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, career conversations and development planning.
• Healthy, high-trust teams: You’ll create an environment where people speak up early, share context openly, take ownership, and collaborate well.
• Technical decision-making through leadership: You’ll guide technical conversations, ask the right questions, make trade-offs visible and help teams connect technical decisions to customer value.
• The flow of work: You’ll help teams move from ambiguity to focus: clear priorities, explicit expectations, pragmatic decisions and reliable execution.
• Engineering hiring and onboarding: You’ll help us attract, assess, hire and onboard strong engineers and future leaders.
• How Engineering, Product and Design work together: You’ll strengthen cross-functional collaboration and help teams avoid handover thinking or local optimisation.
• The evolution of Engineering at plancraft: Together with other EMs, Staff Engineers and Engineering Leadership, you’ll improve the rituals, practices and systems that make Engineering more effective.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experience developing engineers: You’ve coached, mentored, led or managed engineers and you take people development seriously.
• Technical credibility: You can guide discussions around architecture, system design, reliability, quality and delivery.
• Strong communication and feedback skills: You can give direct, respectful feedback, facilitate difficult conversations and align people around decisions.
• Experience creating clarity in ambiguity: You can translate organisational goals into team focus, make expectations explicit and help people stay oriented when things change.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration: You know how to work with Product, Design, Staff Engineers and other stakeholders to make trade-offs visible and keep teams focused on outcomes.
• A product-minded engineering perspective: You care about the customer problem, not just the process or the technology.
• Familiarity with modern TypeScript-based product engineering (React, Node.js / Express and GCP).
• Strong GenAI fluency and role-model behaviour: You already use AI-enabled engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar.
• C1 Level English. German is a plus.

Location

Germany, Remote: True

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• Team Spirit: Three major team events per year, two casual monthly formats at our Hamburg HQ.
• Ownership: Flat hierarchy and high-trust environment.
• Learning & Growth: Feedback culture, personal learning budget, and targeted enablement formats.
• AI Enablement: Internal tools and workflows are AI-enabled by design, including a ChatGPT+ license.
• Tech & Tooling: MacBook, premium over-ear headphones, and necessary hardware/tools.
• Flexibility: Remote, hybrid, or on-site options.
• Recharge: 30 vacation days per year (based on a 5-day week) and Dec 24th off. Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership.
• Mobility: Lease a "JobRad" (Bike) and get a subsidized "Deutschlandticket" or "BahnCard".

Equal Opportunity Statement

We’re #stoked to shape the future, #together as a team, and #humble in our mission to support the builders of tomorrow.