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About the Role

Our mission involves constructing a cloud-native insurance infrastructure where human expertise and artificial intelligence synergize to develop, manage, and scale complex financial products. We aim to deliver a programmable, version-controlled architecture that empowers engineers and autonomous systems to operate with high efficiency and safety. In your capacity as an Engineering Manager (f/m/d/x), you will lead the development of our core platform and engineering culture, focusing on building high-performing, autonomous teams, fostering technical excellence, and aligning engineering execution with strategic business goals to drive the delivery of our next-generation financial infrastructure. This position represents a unique nexus of platform engineering, sophisticated domain modeling, and the next generation of AI-driven software development.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of software engineers working on distributed microservices in a fast-paced SaaS environment
Promote individual development and foster a healthy, inclusive team culture
Partner closely with Product, Team Lead, Delivery Manager, and other Engineering Managers to ensure alignment on priorities and roadmap delivery
Drive team delivery by designing and improving how the team plans, commits, and ships; facilitating planning with the Delivery Manager; unblocking the team and making delivery predictable
Coach, mentor, and support engineers in their growth through continuous feedback and structured development plans
Help shape and steward long-term engineering practices in collaboration with Staff Engineers and senior leadership
Contribute to hiring efforts, onboarding programs, and building a strong, diverse engineering organization
Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks in team workflows and improve communication with dependent teams

Requirements

Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams through coaching, feedback, and clear expectation-setting
Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals (software architecture, microservices, cloud-native systems) and the ability to support technical discussions
Experience with Agile delivery practices (Scrum or Kanban) and a track record of improving team effectiveness
A track record of changing how a team works, not just running the existing process, and the habit of knowing what to measure to assess change effectiveness
Ability to balance people leadership, delivery management, and long-term strategic thinking
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and collaborate with product-oriented stakeholders
A great passion for enabling others to succeed, building teams, and fostering a healthy engineering culture
Experience with Typescript, Python, or Go are a plus
Fluency in English, both written and spoken; German is a plus

Skills

Software architecture
Microservices
Cloud-native systems
Agile delivery practices
Scrum
Kanban
Typescript
Python
Go
English
German

Location

Berlin-Mitte
Remote

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Manager

Salary/Compensations

An attractive salary package based on your experience, qualifications and responsibilities

Benefits

30 days of holiday leave
Extra half-days off on 24 and 31 December
Personal training budget of at least €500
Internal development opportunities
Company subsidy for Urban Sports Club membership
Generously subsidised company pension scheme
VSOP programme
Modern hardware (Windows or iOS)
Weekly company lunches
Well-stocked snack bar

About the Company

EMIL Group is an Insurtech founded in Berlin in 2016, offering innovative SaaS-solutions for the insurance industry.
Our software enables insurers to master the shift into the digital age, thereby driving forward the insurance industry's technological disruption.
We are a team of experienced founders (e.g., WHU, Rocket Internet), insurance- (e.g., wefox), and software experts (e.g., Google, Amazon).