Job description
Engineering Manager (f/m/d) - Product & Platform
Company Overview
hallo theo is building the first AI-native property management company and transforming a multi-billion-euro, heavily under-digitised industry. We are reshaping how owners, tenants and service providers interact around real homes. You’ll join a small, experienced team with strong product, tech and operations backgrounds.
Job Summary
As Engineering Manager for Product & Platform you own how we turn ideas into robust, scalable products. You lead a small group of product & forward-deployed engineers and take end-to-end responsibility for technical decisions, delivery and quality across core parts of our customer-facing portal and the underlying platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a small engineering team, including 1:1s, feedback, coaching and performance management.
- Own planning and delivery for key Product & Platform initiatives, breaking complex work into realistic milestones and managing trade-offs between speed and quality.
- Review and challenge technical and architectural decisions in a modern web stack (e.g. TypeScript / Node / React, cloud, microservices) and ensure solid standards for testing, code quality, CI/CD and observability.
- Work closely with Product and Data to translate business goals and KPIs into technical priorities, and align stakeholders on scope, risks and decisions.
- Act as main technical counterpart for external partners (agencies, external squads) and ensure we can understand, own and evolve any code delivered to hallo theo.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 5–8+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- 2–4+ years in a lead or manager role (Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or Tech Lead with people responsibility)
- Hands-on experience with modern web technologies (e.g. TypeScript, Node.js, React, cloud environments, APIs, microservices)
- Proven track record leading agile teams and owning delivery for product or platform initiatives
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design and integration topics
- Experience hiring, coaching and running performance and feedback conversations with engineers
- Comfortable collaborating with Product and Data using goals, KPIs and experiments to guide decisions
- German typically at C1 level; for truly exceptional profiles we can be more flexible
- Very good English for day-to-day collaboration
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in B2B SaaS, platform products, subscriptions, payments or similar complex domains
- Experience working with and integrating externally built systems (agencies, external squads) and bringing them into internal ownership
- Experience building or evolving shared platforms, APIs or design systems used by multiple product teams
- Previous involvement in scaling an engineering organisation from an early stage
Location
Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full Time
