Job description
Engineering Manager / Team Lead - all genders welcome
Company Overview
Sykell is at the forefront of the circular economy, driving innovation in packaging systems that eliminate single-use waste. Our mission is to make reusables effortless for consumers and scalable for businesses. We work with major retailers, brands, and logistics providers to build technology that tracks, manages, and optimizes reusable packaging across supply chains.
Job Summary
We’re now looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our core development teams. This is a dual-focus role: you’ll be leading a team of engineers while also engaging directly with clients to help them implement and scale our solution. If you’re excited by clean tech, circular logistics, and building real-world systems that create environmental impact, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and drive development on our core platform (Go, TypeScript/React, AWS) – you make the architectural calls and you make them count.
- Continuously develop and improve our award-winning ERP system – a product making waves globally, with plenty more to build and conquer.
- Lead and mentor an international team of 3 engineers – creating an environment where people take ownership and do their best work.
- Be the technical point of contact for internal and external stakeholders – building trust on both sides.
- Collaborate closely with design, ops, and leadership to ship features that work.
Requirements / Qualifications
- You have a proven track record of actively building and running SaaS products in production – from early stage to what happens after go-live.
- You bring deep experience in Go, TypeScript/React, and AWS – making architectural decisions and backing them up in code. Senior backend experience with Go as a primary language is a strong plus.
- You understand how systems are composed – backend, frontend, data, automations, infrastructure – and can navigate across all of them.
- You have experience leading and mentoring engineers – and you know that growing people is what makes a team truly thrive.
- You love diving in and getting things done – you build, you test, you iterate, and you thrive on seeing things come to life.
- You communicate with confidence – translating complex technical thinking into clear, compelling language for any audience, internal or external.
Preferred Qualifications
- You’ve built ERP systems before.
- You have a background in sustainability or the circular economy.
- You have worked with Flutter.
Location
Germany (Remote)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Salary: 85K EUR/yr - 95K EUR/yr
- Flexible hours and flexible location.
Equal Opportunity Statement
we know great teams are diverse teams – we welcome everyone, regardless of background, identity or experience.
