Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)

<p>Thousands of dealers bid on our platform, and every bid runs through the system your team owns. Real-time auctions, every selling modality, seven engineers from mid-level to staff, and a dedicated Product Manager. You decide where it goes next.</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Central Berlin – hybrid, with 3 days in our office and 2 days from home.</p> <h3>About us</h3> <p>CarOnSale is the AI-powered platform for B2B used car trading in Europe. Over 40,000 buyers from more than 20 countries trade on our platform — and 85% of inventory is exclusive to us. We connect software, pricing intelligence, logistics and financing in one layer — as the operating system for an entire industry.</p> <p><strong><em>One Platform. One Profit Engine.</em></strong></p> <h3>What you'll do</h3> <ul> <li>You lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and the selling modalities at the core of our platform. Seven engineers across backend, web and mobile, working with a dedicated Product Manager, across European and Brazilian time zones.</li> <li>You own the team's technical direction. You set the strategy for the auction domain, tie it to OKRs, and make the architecture calls with the team.</li> <li>You own delivery and quality. You run the delivery method, decide which testing layers carry which risks, and make sure what ships holds up under live auctions.</li> <li>You own the team's technical metrics: what is tracked, what alerts, and what happens when it fires.</li> <li>You build the team. You hire, level, grow, and when needed, manage people out.</li> <li>You run the people processes: onboarding, growth plans, a regular feedback cadence, and mentoring across levels.</li> <li>You balance product and engineering. You say no to engineering work in business terms and no to product work in risk terms, and you can defend the call either way.</li> <li>You push AI adoption in the team and use AI tooling in your own work.</li> </ul> <h3>What you bring</h3> <ul> <li>8+ years as a software engineer in individual contributor roles before moving into management. You don't need to code day to day, but you have coded heavily and still think in architecture and design.</li> <li>2+ years managing engineers as their line manager, with performance and hiring responsibility. Tech lead time does not count here.</li> <li>Depth in distributed systems: services, concurrency, data consistency.</li> <li>A team you assembled yourself, not only one you inherited: people you hired, levelled and grew.</li> <li>A delivery methodology you have run, whether Scrum, Kanban or one you shaped, plus a clear view of testing layers and how to apply them.</li> <li>A technical strategy you owned for a team or a domain, tied to OKRs or another form of technical governance.</li> <li>An AI-first way of working: you use tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot every day and have driven adoption in a team.</li> <li>English at C1 level or above — it is our working language.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Real-time or event-driven systems under real load</li> <li>Object-oriented and domain-driven design</li> <li>Experience under more than one delivery methodology, and a view on how they compare</li> <li>A team taken through a monolith-to-services migration or its aftermath, or a team you stabilised</li> <li>Managing a team distributed across time zones</li> <li>A background in marketplaces, auctions, automotive, payments or trading</li> <li>Our stack: TypeScript and NestJS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Angular on web, Flutter on mobile</li> <li>German</li> </ul> <h3>What we offer</h3> <ul> <li>Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote – plus 25 "Work from Anywhere" days per year</li> <li>28 days annual leave</li> <li>2× annual career &amp; development conversations</li> <li>Company pension with 20% employer contribution</li> <li>Fully paid Deutschlandticket (public transport)</li> <li>FitX membership or Urban Sports Club subsidy</li> <li>Virtual stock options — share in the upside</li> <li>Modern IT setup for your day-to-day work</li> <li>Structured onboarding with buddy programme and social events</li> <li>Lived diversity: active women's network, meditation &amp; prayer room</li> </ul> <p><strong>Apply now — your CV is enough.</strong></p>

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