Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)

&lt;p&gt;Thousands of dealers bid on our platform, and every bid runs through the system your team owns. Real-time auctions, every selling modality, seven engineers from mid-level to staff, and a dedicated Product Manager. You decide where it goes next.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; Central Berlin – hybrid, with 3 days in our office and 2 days from home.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;About us&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;CarOnSale is the AI-powered platform for B2B used car trading in Europe. Over 40,000 buyers from more than 20 countries trade on our platform — and 85% of inventory is exclusive to us. We connect software, pricing intelligence, logistics and financing in one layer — as the operating system for an entire industry.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;One Platform. One Profit Engine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3&gt;What you&#39;ll do&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;You lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and the selling modalities at the core of our platform. Seven engineers across backend, web and mobile, working with a dedicated Product Manager, across European and Brazilian time zones.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You own the team&#39;s technical direction. You set the strategy for the auction domain, tie it to OKRs, and make the architecture calls with the team.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You own delivery and quality. You run the delivery method, decide which testing layers carry which risks, and make sure what ships holds up under live auctions.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You own the team&#39;s technical metrics: what is tracked, what alerts, and what happens when it fires.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You build the team. You hire, level, grow, and when needed, manage people out.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You run the people processes: onboarding, growth plans, a regular feedback cadence, and mentoring across levels.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You balance product and engineering. You say no to engineering work in business terms and no to product work in risk terms, and you can defend the call either way.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;You push AI adoption in the team and use AI tooling in your own work.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h3&gt;What you bring&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;8+ years as a software engineer in individual contributor roles before moving into management. You don&#39;t need to code day to day, but you have coded heavily and still think in architecture and design.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;2+ years managing engineers as their line manager, with performance and hiring responsibility. Tech lead time does not count here.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Depth in distributed systems: services, concurrency, data consistency.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A team you assembled yourself, not only one you inherited: people you hired, levelled and grew.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A delivery methodology you have run, whether Scrum, Kanban or one you shaped, plus a clear view of testing layers and how to apply them.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A technical strategy you owned for a team or a domain, tied to OKRs or another form of technical governance.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;An AI-first way of working: you use tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot every day and have driven adoption in a team.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;English at C1 level or above — it is our working language.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice to have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Real-time or event-driven systems under real load&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Object-oriented and domain-driven design&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Experience under more than one delivery methodology, and a view on how they compare&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A team taken through a monolith-to-services migration or its aftermath, or a team you stabilised&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Managing a team distributed across time zones&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A background in marketplaces, auctions, automotive, payments or trading&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Our stack: TypeScript and NestJS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Angular on web, Flutter on mobile&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;German&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h3&gt;What we offer&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote – plus 25 &quot;Work from Anywhere&quot; days per year&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;28 days annual leave&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;2× annual career &amp;amp; development conversations&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Company pension with 20% employer contribution&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Fully paid Deutschlandticket (public transport)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;FitX membership or Urban Sports Club subsidy&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Virtual stock options — share in the upside&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Modern IT setup for your day-to-day work&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Structured onboarding with buddy programme and social events&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Lived diversity: active women&#39;s network, meditation &amp;amp; prayer room&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apply now — your CV is enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;<p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>