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.
- Directly manage a 10+ person engineering team across multiple disciplines.
- 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.
- Champion a customer-value mindset across the team.
- Own and maintain the engineering team's responsibilities under LiveEO's SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance programs.
- 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 experience across backend systems, data engineering, or ML infrastructure.
- 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 and supporting career growth.
Location
Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work model.
- Opportunities for career development, initiative, and creativity.
- Collaborative and learning environment including workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, 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.
- Diverse and vibrant international environment.
