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About the Role

Freenow by Lyft is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team focused on scaling a new product vertical. The role involves modernizing the taxi industry by transforming offline fleets into digital businesses, aligning the team with strategy, and driving efficient feature delivery. The goal is to foster technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous development to maximize business impact across all Freenow markets through innovation.

Responsibilities

Lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions within quarterly goals and company strategy.
Continuously improve engineering processes for predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus.
Inspire innovation to disrupt incumbents.
Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members.
Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence.
Lead technical decision-making for support systems in collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals.
Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions.
Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans.
Align team activities with business priorities, ensuring efficient execution and adapting plans as needed.
Act as the main engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers.
Build strong relationships to ensure transparency, challenge product decisions, and jointly maximize business impact.
Foster a team culture based on trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback.
Ensure diverse perspectives are heard, encourage curiosity, and build a resilient and motivated team.
Own incident response processes for support technology.
Ensure alerting and monitoring are in place, bugs are addressed quickly, and technical debt is managed proactively.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles.
At least 2 years in a leadership or management position.
Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices.
Experience with scaling zero to one products.
Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills.
Delivery/project management and agile methodology fluency.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Growth mindset, data-driven decision-making, and bias for action.

Skills

Java
Kotlin
AWS
Docker
Git
Kafka
ElasticSearch

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles
At least 2 years in a leadership or management position

Education Level

Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related technical field)

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements
LinkedIn Learning
Sabbatical & special leave policies
WeRoad partnership
Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
Short term EU work policy
Mobility Credit
Health Insurance
Employee assistance program

About the Company

Freenow is the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities.
Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.
Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.
Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe.
Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.

Equal Opportunity

FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.