Engineering Manager (F/M/X) (Remote)

Engineering Manager (F/M/X)

About us

At ablefy, we believe that passion can turn into a career for anyone! With our cloud-based SaaS platform solution, ablefy.io, we offer an easy and efficient way for everyone to create and sell digital products and online courses. More than 70,000 entrepreneurs have already placed their trust in our expertise!

Our story began in 2015, and for the first five years, we grew organically, becoming a profitable company with a team of around 60 employees. Then, in September 2021, we raised $38 million in series A funding led by Target Global, with participation from Partech Ventures and Avid Ventures. Since then, we've doubled in size!

Since then, our company size, products, features, and services have doubled and we have become Germany's No. 1 platform for coaches, consultants, speakers, and service providers. We continue to grow to this day – that's why we're looking for you.

Our core values are crucial to our success: Ownership - Lead by Example, Accountability, Mission firstBe Curious & Drive Change - Embrace Change & Growth, Never Assume, Lead with a Vision for ChangeCustomer-Obsessed - Champion Customer-Centric Decision-making, Deliver Meaningful Value, Go Above and BeyondAs One Tribe - Embrace Differences, Collaboration over Hierarchy & Competition, Build Trust through Honesty, Integrity & Respect

Diversity & InclusionAt ablefy, we embrace our differences, as they are our greatest strength. We recognize that everyone has a unique perspective based on their experiences, identities, and thought processes, and we strive to create an inclusive environment for all. Discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other aspect that makes you unique is not tolerated at ablefy. We aim to make growth accessible to everyone!

We know that no candidate checks every single box, and that’s okay! If you’re excited about this role and think you can bring something valuable to our team, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t meet every requirement. We’d love to hear from you!

Job Summary

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be both a technical guide and a people leader. Your primary mission is to build the new, scalable payments and e-commerce services platform that will serve as the core engine for our 70,000+ entrepreneurs.

We are sitting on a 9-year-old, successful Ruby on Rails monolith, and this role is about building our future. This means you will be defining the strategy for how our new services will interact with, and decouple from, our existing monolith. You'll be building the bridge to our future as a true SaaS-first company.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading & Guiding Your Team: You'll hire, mentor, and support a dedicated team of engineers. You're not just a manager; you're a guide who can help your team navigate the complex technical problems of building new services around a mature monolith.
• Owning the API & Decoupling Strategy: You will spearhead the architecture and delivery of our new, public-facing API. This includes defining the "strangler fig" or other patterns for safely exposing and decoupling logic from our core RoR application.
• Building a Modern Auth System: You'll be central to the discussion and implementation of a new, secure authentication and authorization layer. You'll be thinking about scopes, policy management, and secure token handling from day one.
• Championing SaaS Principles: You will ensure everything your team builds is scalable, secure, and designed for a multi-tenant SaaS environment, even as it interfaces with our legacy systems.
• Delivering Value: You'll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery for your team, managing the technical roadmap and balancing immediate business goals (like Black Friday deliverables) with the long-term architectural vision.

Requirements / Qualifications

We're looking for someone who "understands this domain" and is excited to build it with us. We are not looking for maintainers; we are looking for builders.

• A Pragmatic Builder: You have a "builder" mentality. You see a mature monolith not as a blocker, but as a foundation to build upon. You have experience navigating the trade-offs between greenfield development and legacy integration.
• An Experienced Leader: You have a strong track record as an Engineering Manager, with proven experience in people management and a passion for developing talent.
• A SaaS & API Expert: You have deep, hands-on experience in the SaaS world. You know what it takes to build, secure, and scale a publicly available API and, critically, how to decouple those services from a monolith.
• Technically Grounded (with RoR): You must have a strong background in Ruby on Rails. While your team may build new services in other languages, you need to be able to guide engineers working with the core monolith. You also have a firm grasp of distributed systems and modern authentication technologies (including frameworks like OAuth 2.0 and standards like JWT).
• A Collaborative Partner: You're a great communicator who loves to "bounce ideas" around. You can translate complex technical concepts and partner effectively with product, business, and other engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus Points: Experience in the payments, e-commerce, or "monetization" domain is a significant plus.

Salary & Benefits

Paid Time Off - 30 vacation days.

A competitive salary.

A personal Training & Development budget of € 1,500 per year.

Responsibility and trust from day 1.

Individual coaching and further training to support you in your development.

A free BVG ticket.

Employee discounts at numerous companies (e.g. at the gym or in online stores).

Pension Program with company match.

A Culture of equity and Inclusion where you are appreciated for the person you are.