Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

As an Engineering Manager at SAP LeanIX, you will lead and grow a two-pizza team of product-minded, cross-functional developers. Additionally, you contribute to build and continuously improve our Software-as-a-service product, supported by a Product Manager and UX Designer within your team. You will solve challenging enterprise architecture problems through scalable and resilient software built on a modern tech stack and micro service architecture. Combine your excellent technical skills with your leadership abilities and help us to stay one of the best engineering organizations in the world.

Your team is one of five teams in our Inventory Tribe that build the foundation of our product. Your team will focus on the central hub for accessing and editing the most important customer objects: the Fact Sheet Inventory. Your team empowers our customers to effectively search across our product in a unified way.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? Well, there are multiple reasons:

• We're on a strong growth trajectory, and being part of SAP gives us a stable and secure future that will allow us to accelerate.
• Our products are industry-leading with happy customers and an NPS of 70. Our culture of empowered product teams means we solve problems, not just implement features. We drive our efforts by listening to our customers and measuring how they use our products.
• We build it, we run it. We ensure that customers can rely on resilient, high-performing products. We stay ahead of problems through high levels of automation, alerting, SRE practices and On-Call. There is no dedicated operations department in place at LeanIX.
• We value continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing. We constantly iterate on our engineering practices and skills to build a software architecture that supports fun at work and long-term business success.
• We value open access to leadership, transparency and personal development. We've successfully enabled many software engineers to grow along with the company into engineering manager or technical lead positions. You'll continue that success story as we provide opportunities for you to grow.
• We value a healthy life balance and our employees make room for interests and relationships outside of work. We offer a hybrid work environment that provides a high degree of flexibility while still allowing for occasional meetings with colleagues in one of our offices.

WHAT IS WAITING FOR YOU?

Your main objective is to lead your product team and yourself:

• Drive growth and culture through 1:1s and team sessions
• Guide your team to continuous improvement and to make customer centricity part of their DNA
• Inspire them to collaborate, share knowledge and look beyond their team's boundaries
• Scale your team by leading the hiring efforts
• Learn and grow as a professional through leadership and buddy programs, training budgets and a strong community of leaders within and outside of Engineering

SAP LeanIX believes in hands-on managers, so you will also spend a considerable amount of your time to:

• Build the best possible product for our customers with a customer-first, outcome-oriented mindset
• Bring in senior engineering experience and a proven track record of problem-solving skills at scale
• Leverage your ability to continuously improve our software stack and developer experience through code
• Guide your team to closely align with Product Management and UX Design

Only a very small portion of your time will go into administrative topics such as approving expenses, vacations, travel, etc.

WHAT IS OUR STACK?

• Backend JVM microservices with latest Kotlin
• Frontends built with latest Angular
• Infrastructure based on Azure ecosystem
• Kubernetes and Docker
• API technologies with GraphQL
• Databases and Search with Redis, PostgreSQL, Lucence
• Event-driven architecture
• Modern CI/CD toolchains with Github Actions, Feature Toggling
• Monitoring and Alerting with Azure, Instana
• Product Usage Tracking with Amplitude, Azure Log Analytics

Further details can be found here.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for someone who likes to:

• Lead engineering teams according to our Engineering Values
• Solve problems at scale and deliver customer value in a SaaS product environment
• Continuously learn, be proactive and curious

Additionally:

• 5+ years of proven track record engineering experience along our technical stack
• Experience as leader of engineering teams
• Strong spoken and written communication skills in English
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in our Bonn office on a regular basis
• Kindly note: We are only accepting applications from candidates based in Germany

Bonus:

• Experience in building search engines
• Experience with AI-assisted search and retrieval
• Prior knowledge in the domain of Enterprise Architecture