Engineering Manager - Europe Remote (m/f/x)

commercetools - we are:

• The competitive sort: We didn’t become the fastest growing, highest ever valued SaaS software company in digital commerce with nearly 100% year-over-year growth by sitting on the sidelines.
• Inspired: Continually exploring what’s possible — the innovators of headless commerce, the visionaries behind MACH — our patented tech has radically disrupted the world of enterprise ecommerce software - and we are just getting started. 
• Valued: Smart, strong, passionate individuals hailing from over 50 countries across the globe, speaking over 43 languages, and collectively embracing diversity, encouraging inclusion, and fostering a culture of caring.
• Driven: We push the limits, technology, and ourselves to retain the trust of some of the world’s leading and fastest growing brands every single day.

The Opportunity:

Team work is the most essential ingredient of our culture, as an Engineering Manager you will complement one of our tech teams in our goal to strive for self-organisation. Following our leadership culture, you will facilitate them to drive decisions. You act according to our simple principle: We are people not resources.

Here is what our teams do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwAITJkozr8

Please note that for this role, we can currently offer full-remote work for candidates based in the European Union and in the United Kingdom.

Your Mission:

• Your team’s health is your first priority
• Work with amazing people on a 1:1 level
• Support your team members in their personal development and growth
• Knowing the landscape of the team’s domain to support and consult in personal and team related questions
• Budget and personal responsibility for engineering roles within your team
• You live and breath for our tech vision and consult the engineers accordingly
• You actively develop with your team
• You can count on your working environment - Engineering Managers of other teams, Tech Leads, Agile Coaches, HR Business Partner and the CTO

What you need to succeed:

• Leading people in a tech environment
• Passion for teamwork
• An excellent level of soft skills - most importantly empathy
• Comfortable raising issues to drive changes
• Great self-assessment mastery
• Applied experience in software development and understanding of software architecture
• Being comfortable with managing backend and frontend development with a tech stack of Scala, React running on k8s using MongoDB and Elasticsearch
• Passion for software design and architecture with a heart in automation
• Experience working within an Agile environment with focus on the customer view
• Mentality to share and the aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn about leadership, new technologies and concepts
• Fluent English to work in an international environment
• Experience in working with Continuous Integration systems ensuring software quality and allowing automatic releasing
• General experience within the e-commerce space (nice to have)

Tech at commercetools:

We Are Open Source And Innovative By Design

🚀 We make rapid progress by being early adopters of React, Scala, and GraphQL

📋 We share & contribute to the open source community: https://github.com/sangria-graphql

⚙️ We <3 Automation and Machine Learning

We care about your Growth and Well-being

☀️ Remote Work: Up to 60 days/year from a country different from your base country  

💻 Open Learning & Development Budget

📚 ct Academy: Regular internal training sessions

⌚️ Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated employees

🚀 Mindset & Growth: A diverse, creative workspace with an international culture & learning environment

Are you ready? Come grow with us!

🔍 Are you looking for something else? Check out our Career Page and our Website for more information.

We are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.

commercetools celebrates being a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If your professional profile aligns with our specific hiring requirements and company culture, then we encourage you to apply. We will assess your competencies, future potential, approach to learning and self-development and passion, and not your age, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, genetics, or disability.