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€130k-140k base + 15% annual bonus + equity (VSOPs)
Hybrid working from Berlin, flexible hours
Unlimited vacation, learning budget, home office allowance, Urban Sports Club membership
A well-funded technology company on a mission to change how data ownership works on the internet. They're building the trust and identity infrastructure that modern digital services increasingly need - privacy-first, decentralised, and genuinely differentiated in a space that's only getting more important.
Small, senior team. Serious technical culture. Berlin-based with a globally distributed engineering organisation.
This is a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager position leading a core platform team. You will own delivery, architecture direction, and the technical bar for a team of 7-12 engineers building distributed systems at the intersection of identity, privacy, and data ownership.
The key thing to understand about this role: it is not a coordination or programme management position. The expectation is that you stay technically close to the work. You will act as a quality gate between product intent and engineering execution - scoping ambiguity out before it reaches your team, catching architectural issues at the design stage, and running system design conversations rather than just sitting in them. If you've deliberately stayed hands-on as you've grown into leadership, this is the role for you.
Lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering on a high-scale, privacy-first platform - primarily TypeScript, Node.js and React
Own architecture decisions, ADRs, and the RFC process for your domain
Act as a technical filter upstream of your team - the person who catches the hard problems before they become expensive ones
Partner with Product and Design to shape technical vision and roadmap
Hire, grow and retain strong engineers, including building pathways to Staff and Principal level
Champion engineering excellence: clean architecture, CI/CD, TDD, observability and performance
Drive AI-assisted development practices and contribute to an agentic engineering culture
5+ years in engineering management, with experience leading through other EMs or senior engineers
Strong hands-on technical foundation in TypeScript, Node.js and cloud-native backend systems (AWS preferred)
Real system design depth - you can lead a system design session, not just participate in one
Experience operating distributed systems at meaningful scale in a production environment
Background in regulated, security-conscious or privacy-adjacent domains (identity, fintech, compliance) is a significant advantage
Startup or scale-up experience - comfortable with ambiguity and building from first principles
Familiarity with modern AI engineering tooling (Claude Code, LangChain, MCP or similar) is a strong signal
Based in Berlin or open to relocating
Berlin, Germany
Full Time
€130k-140k base + 15% annual bonus + equity (VSOPs)
Posted October 11, 2026
English