Job description
Engineering Manager – Platform / DevEx
Company Overview
At AVIV Group, we treat developer experience as a product—building platforms, tools, and workflows that enable engineering teams to deliver customer value quickly, reliably, and with minimal friction.
Job Summary
As a Hands-on Engineering Manager, you will lead a small, high-impact platform team responsible for evolving the internal developer platform. This is a technical leadership role where you will combine engineering excellence, product thinking, and people leadership to remove friction, accelerate delivery, and improve developer satisfaction. You will operate as a engineering leader, contributing directly to the codebase while shaping strategy, mentoring engineers, and partnering across the organization.
What You’ll Do
Technical Leadership & Hands-on Contribution
- Actively contribute to the design and development of internal platform services, tooling, and frameworks
- Build reusable building blocks, backbone libraries, and SDKs (C#, .NET Core, TypeScript / Node.js)
- Design scalable platform patterns, service boundaries, and golden paths (CI/CD, IaC, workflows)
- Drive the adoption of self-service capabilities that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate services in minutes
- Leverage AI and automation to improve developer productivity and reduce SDLC friction
Team Leadership & People Management
- Lead and grow a small team (3–5 engineers), fostering a high-performance engineering culture
- Mentor engineers, helping them grow in both technical and product mindset
- Create a collaborative environment where engineers thrive and contribute ideas
- Ensure strong communication and alignment within the team and across stakeholders
- Balance delivery, quality, and team wellbeing
Strategy & Platform Product Thinking
- Define and execute the platform vision and roadmap aligned to developer needs
- Treat the platform as a product—understanding internal users (engineers) through feedback and data
- Partner with product teams, DevOps, Security, and QA to reduce dependencies and streamline workflows
- Identify friction points across the developer journey and drive high-impact improvements
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and platform consistency across teams
How Success Is Measured
- Improved developer productivity and satisfaction (e.g., internal NPS)
- Faster delivery cycles and increased release frequency
- Adoption of platform tools, standards, and golden paths
- Improved system reliability, performance, and observability
- Reduced cognitive load and friction for product engineering teams
What We’re Looking For
Experience
- 10+ years in software engineering, with strong experience in platform engineering or DevEx
- Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in high-performing teams
- Proven track record of building internal platforms, developer tooling, or reusable services
- Experience leading engineers while remaining technically hands-on
Technical Expertise
- Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET Core, TypeScript (Node.js)
- Experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Knowledge of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, ELK)
- Familiarity with AI-driven engineering workflows and automation
- Strong understanding of scalable architectures and platform design
Leadership & Mindset
- A hands-on leader who leads by example and earns credibility through technical contribution
- Strong communicator who can engage engineers and stakeholders in their own language
- Product mindset: you understand developer needs and build solutions that drive adoption
- Bias for simplification, automation, and self-service
- High ownership and ability to make decisions in ambiguity
- Pragmatic and execution-focused—avoiding overengineering
Why Join Us?
- Build and shape a developer platform at scale impacting multiple engineering teams
- Work in a company where developer experience is a strategic priority
- Combine technical depth with leadership influence in a truly hybrid role
- Join a culture that values ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Authorized to work in Germany
