Breuninger Engineering Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Build trust, clarity and accountability within the team, creating an environment where high-quality software can be delivered sustainably at a predictable pace.
• Combine engineering work with leadership responsibilities, foster collaboration and contribute directly to development when appropriate.
• 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 sustainably evolve technical standards and architectures.
• Strengthen team autonomy through clear decision-making boundaries, promote ownership and accelerate decisions while ensuring alignment with other teams and business objectives.
• Support team members’ interests and development, strengthen engagement, create opportunities for growth and encourage accountability.
• Coach engineers in their development; take responsibility for performance and hiring; and collaborate closely with Agile Coaches, Staff Engineers and Heads of Engineering to continuously develop the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience and intrinsic motivation to develop colleagues personally and technically, with the ability to move fluidly between context-dependent roles.
• Ability to recognize and shape team dynamics, listen actively, identify and constructively resolve tensions, and foster an open feedback and learning-from-mistakes culture.
• Several years of hands-on software engineering experience in complex system landscapes, ideally with Kotlin, Java and Spring Boot.
• In-depth software architecture knowledge, particularly Domain-driven Design, with experience applying it in production environments and establishing technical standards and actively 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, including their use in production environments.
• Openness to AI-supported engineering practices; practical experience in this area is an advantage.
• Clear, solution-oriented and focused communication, including on difficult topics; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide transparency around business-relevant decisions.
• Team-oriented approach to software engineering, with the ability to advocate for professional positions while remaining open and flexible to other views.
• Very good German language skills, at least at C1 level.

Skills

Experience

Several years of hands-on software engineering experience in complex system landscapes; leadership experience.

Benefits

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

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