Breuninger Engineering Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Build a trusting team environment that enables sustainable delivery of high-quality software at a predictable pace.
• Combine engineering with leadership, foster collaboration, and remain willing to contribute directly to development.
• Partner with the Product Owner to take responsibility for delivery, direction, and quality; maintain focus, reduce context switching, improve processes and time to market, and develop technical standards and architectures sustainably.
• Strengthen team autonomy through clear decision-making boundaries, encourage ownership, accelerate team decisions, and ensure alignment with other teams and business objectives.
• Support team members’ interests and development, strengthen engagement, create opportunities for growth, and foster accountability.
• Coach engineers in their development; take responsibility for performance and hiring; and work closely with Agile Coaches, Staff Engineers, and Heads of Engineering to develop the engineering organization continuously.

Qualifications

• Previous leadership experience and intrinsic motivation to develop colleagues personally and technically, with the ability to shift between context-dependent roles.
• Ability to recognize and shape team dynamics, listen actively, identify and resolve tensions constructively, and foster an open feedback and learning-from-mistakes culture.
• Several years of practical software engineering experience in complex system landscapes, ideally with Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot.
• Sound software architecture knowledge, particularly Domain-driven Design, with experience applying it in production environments and establishing technical standards and advancing architecture decisions in previous roles.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL and their use in production environments.
• Openness to AI-assisted engineering practices; practical experience in this area is preferred.
• Clear, solution-oriented, and purposeful communication, including on challenging topics; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide transparency on business-relevant decisions.
• A team-oriented approach to software engineering, with the ability to advocate for professional positions while remaining open and flexible to other perspectives.
• Very good German language skills, at least C1 level.

Skills

Experience

Several years of practical software engineering experience in complex system landscapes; previous leadership experience.

Benefits

Voluntary holiday and Christmas bonuses; contributions to retirement provision; 30% employee discount, including for a partner and covering restaurants and hairdressing; additional vacation days from the fifth year; a subsidy for an Urban Sports membership; training and leadership programmes; workation of up to 30 calendar days per year in selected European countries; additional vacation days through salary conversion, with a sabbatical option; and the option to lease a bicycle or e-bike through Company Bike. Benefit availability may vary by role and area of assignment.

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