Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m)

#### **Short Facts** **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. * Location: Munich, Germany * Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term * Salary Range: € 115.000 - 135.000 per year gross depending on the seniority level * Office-first work setup * Language Requirement: C1 Level English #### **Your 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. * Shape the company's culture #### **Your Profile** **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 int