Engineering Manager (m/f/d) - Berlin

Company Overview

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. We are the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe.

Job Summary

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of software engineers who are focused on scaling an exciting new product vertical. We are building a complex, intelligent system to modernize the traditional taxi industry. Your goal is to lead the team to transform offline fleets into digital businesses. This critical role ensures team’s alignment with product and business strategy, while driving efficient delivery of features.

Key Responsibilities

Team Performance & Delivery: Within the frame of quarterly goals and company strategy, lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus.
People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence. You get to build a team from the ground up.
Technical Ownership: In collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals, lead technical decision-making for the support systems. Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions.
Strategic Execution: Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans. Align team activities with business priorities.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the main engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers.
Culture & Team Building: Foster a team culture based on trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback.
Operational Excellence & Incident Management: Own incident response processes for support technology. Ensure alerting and monitoring are in place, bugs are addressed quickly, and technical debt is managed proactively.

Requirements / Qualifications

Level of Education: Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related technical field).
Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles, and at least 2 years in a leadership or management position.
Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices.
Experience with scaling zero to one products.
Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.
Delivery/project management and agile methodology fluency.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Growth mindset, data-driven decision-making, and bias for action.

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Salary & Benefits

Flexible working arrangements
LinkedIn Learning
Sabbatical & special leave policies
WeRoad partnership
Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
Short term EU work policy
Mobility Credit
Health Insurance
Employee assistance program

Equal Opportunity Statement

FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.

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