Breuninger Engineering Lead

Role & Responsibilities

• Provide embedded leadership within the team, fostering trust, clarity and accountability so it can deliver high-quality software sustainably at a predictable pace.
• Combine engineering expertise with people leadership, strengthen collaborative ways of working 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, continuously improve processes and time to market, and develop technical standards and architecture sustainably.
• Strengthen team autonomy through clear decision-making boundaries, encourage ownership and accelerate team decisions while maintaining 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 work closely with Agile Coaches, Staff Engineers and Heads of Engineering to continuously develop the engineering organisation.

Qualifications

• Prior leadership experience and intrinsic motivation to develop colleagues personally and technically, with the ability to shift between context-dependent roles.
• Ability to recognise and shape team dynamics, listen actively, identify and resolve tensions constructively, and foster an open feedback and learning-from-failure culture.
• Several years of hands-on software engineering experience in complex system landscapes, ideally with Kotlin, Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong 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), containerisation (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-supported engineering practices; practical experience in this area is an advantage.
• Clear, solution-oriented and purposeful communication, including on difficult topics; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide transparency around business-relevant decisions.
• A collaborative approach to software engineering, with the ability to advocate for technical positions while remaining open and flexible to other perspectives.
• Very good German skills at C1 level or higher.

Skills

Experience

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

Benefits

Voluntary holiday and Christmas bonuses; retirement savings contributions; 30% employee discount, including for a partner and covering dining and hairdressing; additional annual leave 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 annual leave available 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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