Job description
Engineering Manager (f/m/x)
Company Overview
LiveEO is a well funded startup founded in 2018 and based in Berlin. Our primary service is modelling risk to our customers’ assets and infrastructure from vegetation, ground deformation and change detection. We currently have around 160 employees from all over the world with a variety of backgrounds.
Job Summary
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the cross-functional product engineering team responsible for one of LiveEO's core products. This team builds the software, data, and platform capabilities that transform satellite data into reliable, actionable intelligence for our customers. As Engineering Manager, you will own the technical strategy, team health, and delivery execution across a diverse group of engineers - spanning data engineering, ML, geospatial and remote sensing, software, platform, backend, and frontend.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the definition and evolution of the technical roadmap and architectural standards for your product area. Ensure the team builds for scalability, reliability, and maintainability - while staying pragmatic about delivery pace.
- Directly manage a 10+ person engineering team across multiple disciplines (data, ML, geospatial, software, platform/backend, frontend). Conduct regular 1:1s, support career development and foster a culture of collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement.
- Uphold engineering excellence across the team - code quality, testing practices, documentation, and architectural review. Establish and maintain standards that keep the codebase healthy and the team productive over the long term.
- Champion a customer-value mindset across the team. Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in real user needs and that the product your team owns delivers measurable value to customers.
- Own and maintain the engineering team's responsibilities under LiveEO's SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance programs. Ensure controls are implemented, documented, and upheld as the product and team scale.
- Work closely with Product Managers and the Designer embedded in your team.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Proven track record managing and growing multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Experience leading teams building customer-facing SaaS products and applications.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams with a strong focus on customer outcomes.
- Solid understanding of geospatial data, remote sensing principles, or Earth observation workflows.
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to make informed architectural and technical decisions.
- Hands-on experience running agile teams using Scrum or Scrumban.
- Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with C/VP-level leadership, non-technical stakeholders, and engineering peers.
- Experience conducting meaningful performance conversations, supporting career growth, and building inclusive, high-performing team cultures.
Location
Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work model.
- Collaborative and learning environment - frequent internal workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, journal clubs and hackathons.
- Office located in the centre of Berlin Kreuzberg with free fruit, nuts and drinks.
- Potential to participate in the employee stock option program.
- Urban Sports membership and BVG subsidy, corporate pension program.
