Job description
Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m)
Company Overview
Join us on our journey: To drive the smart and sustainable energy future, we are looking for a Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m) to oversee strategic tech initiatives from development through to successful execution.
We are an energy trader and market leader for trading flexible energy systems in Europe. Beyond AI-powered trading, Entrix provides innovative solutions for long-term revenue security and grid-supportive battery operation. With our full-service package, we support customers throughout every project phase – from technical design and integration, to continuous optimization, all the way to 24/7 operational support. That includes adapting to changing market conditions and unlocking new revenue opportunities.
Entrix is active in Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, with offices in Munich, Warsaw, Milan, and Madrid.
Key Responsibilities
Technical leadership
- Set direction and strategy for your team while ensuring individual contributors own the design and delivery of their work.
- Be a technically deep sounding board: engage directly in design discussions, review proposals, and give specific, high quality feedback that sharpens your engineers' decisions.
- Establish a culture of engineering excellence and ownership with a high bar for quality, reliability, and speed.
AI Champion
- AI assisted engineering and set the standard for how tools like Claude are used in daily development.
- Define and drive the team's AI strategy: identify where AI creates real leverage in our products and workflows, and turn that into measurable outcomes.
People
- Coach and grow your engineers, owning their technical development, performance, and career progression.
- Work closely with recruiters and the leadership team to attract and hire high potential candidates.
Organization and delivery
- Find knowledge and skill gaps on the team and actively close them through coaching, hiring, and structural changes.
- Improve processes to increase speed and effectiveness of delivery, without adding bureaucracy.
- Partner with executives and leads on decision making, program management, and execution.
- Track complex dependencies across internal and external teams and keep delivery on course.
Requirements / Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related tech field
- 5+ years working experience in software development and 2+ years of leadership experience, ideally in backend development and cloud platforms
- Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams
- Strong proficiency in backend development: object-oriented programming (e.g. Python), cloud (e.g. AWS), virtualization and containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g. CDK), workflow orchestration (e.g. WS step functions), Observability (e.g. Datadog, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Grafana)
- A leadership style built on ownership: you enable engineers to own design and delivery rather than owning it for them.
- Hands on experience with AI coding tools such as Claude, and a clear point of view on integrating them into engineering workflows.
- Experience in strategic technical cross team coordination and leadership
- Ability to identify and track complex dependencies across multiple internal and external teams
Skills to Set You Apart
- Energy Trading Experience
- A track record of defining and rolling out an AI adoption strategy for an engineering team.
This role may not be a fit for you if…
- You haven’t worked in a start-up environment
- You believe the manager should own the architecture and make the technical calls. Here, that is the engineers' job.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive Compensation Package: Including salary, benefits and options
- Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc.
- Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership
- Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy to your public transport ticket
- Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers
- Work Equipment: Mac Book or Windows Laptop and ergonomic workplace
- Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.
Location
Munich, Germany (Office-first work setup)
Employment Type
Full-Time, indefinite term
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Entrix, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.
How to Apply
Your contact person is Carolin Starke ([email protected]). We are looking forward to receiving your application!
