Breuninger Engineering Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Creates a trusting team environment that enables the sustainable delivery of high-quality software at a predictable pace.
• Combines engineering work with leadership responsibility, supports collaborative teamwork, and remains willing to contribute directly to development.
• Partners with the Product Owner to share responsibility for delivery, direction, and quality; maintains focus, reduces context switching, and continuously improves processes and time to market.
• Treats technical quality as a business driver and sustainably develops standards and architectures.
• Strengthens team autonomy through clear decision-making boundaries, promotes ownership, accelerates team decisions, and ensures alignment with other teams and business objectives.
• Supports team members’ interests and development, strengthens engagement, creates opportunities for growth, and encourages accountability.
• Guides engineers’ development and holds performance and hiring responsibilities.
• Works closely with Agile Coaches, Staff Engineers, and Heads of Engineering to continuously develop the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Has prior leadership experience and is intrinsically motivated to develop colleagues personally and technically, while adapting readily to context-dependent roles.
• Can recognize and shape team dynamics; listens actively, identifies and constructively resolves tensions, and fosters an open feedback and learning-from-errors culture.
• Has several years of hands-on software engineering experience in complex system landscapes, ideally with Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot.
• Has in-depth software architecture knowledge, particularly Domain-driven Design, has applied it in production environments, and has established technical standards and actively advanced architecture decisions in previous roles.
• Knows cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and modern CI/CD practices.
• Has experience with databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL in production environments.
• Is open to AI-assisted engineering practices and ideally has practical experience in this area.
• Communicates clearly, constructively, and with purpose, including on difficult topics; can explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide transparency around business-relevant decisions.
• Understands software engineering as a team effort, advocates for professional positions, and remains open and flexible toward differing opinions.
• Has very good German skills, at least CEFR level C1.

Skills

Experience

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

Benefits

Voluntary vacation and Christmas bonuses; pension contributions; 30% employee discount, including for a partner and covering dining 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 and a sabbatical option; leasing a preferred bicycle or e-bike through Company Bike.

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