Engineering Lead - Berlin, Deutschland - prosperity solutions

Beschreibung

We are looking for a seasoned
Engineering Lead (all genders)
anywhere in Germany (remote), to join our
Product & Engineering Team.

This position is full-time, which we define as four 8-hour work days (Mo-Thu), with
Fridays being at your own discretion (including not working at all).

We expect people to align with and live our company values.


Foreword
A word before you dive right in: We know how it feels Scanning countless job postings, cutting through the copy-pasted, meaningless, cliche and buzzword-ridden mumbo jumbo, desperately searching for that one thing that could somehow spark interest in a role:

• "Dynamic and flexible environment"_, _"sunny office",_ _"competitive salary"_, _"diverse and international team"_, _"democratising the access to X"_, _""we are a family_"
• have you ever heard stories of a toxic workplace, where this stuff hasn't been a part of the careers page anyway?

The Role

This is an opportunity for you, an ambitious and intrinsically motivated Software Engineer and Manager, to work in a small and value-driven company, with lots of individual responsibility, freedom and room to move the needle.

You will lead the Engineers on your team, as well as closely collaborate with Engineers, Designers, Product Managers and often enough Subject Matter Experts and Commercial, Business and Operational roles to get the full picture.

You are working directly with the Head of Engineering. We are using ShapeUp, so this role requires a product mindset. Code quality is measured by the impact its driving, not just by elegance, or raw performance.

We believe that every piece of software that is shipped to production is legacy software.

As such we won't try to convince you with claims about our ingenious, self-cooked, proprietary, million LOC platform, because we have none of that.

We handle production software, we handle the everyday struggle of imperfections, shortcuts and tradeoffs and we are happy about every line of code we can delete.

We need you to help us navigate this complexity and to show your team how to do it, by mentoring as well as leading by example.

In this role you will

• Have four to seven direct reports to manage and support them in their growth.
• Foster our engineering culture around simplicity, consistency, security, observability, stability and performance.
• Actively contribute code in the development cycle as an individual contributor. We want you to code.
• Learn our business domain and its problems, being an essential part of finding solutions and weighing design tradeoffs.

Requirements:


Hard Requirements

• Existing EU work permit
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Existing people management experience
• Professional experience building digital products

The Skills We Are Looking For

• Professional experience building a GraphQL API
• You are interested in new developments in your field, just as you like to look around you. Product Management and Product Design is interesting to you. You like to keep learning through crossfunctional collaboration with your peers.

We want you to be productive and comfortable with our codebase quickly, so we have defined this baseline.

In the end, we are convinced that an Engineering Lead with the mindset we are after will be able to learn any so-called hard skill, technology, or framework.

The Person We Are Looking For

• You are an empathetic leader practising radical candor.
• You deeply care about the people you are building software for and with.
• You have an appreciation for the written word, enabling calm, productive and asynchronous communication as well as constructive discussions around complex engineering problems.
• You know how to build things perfectly in theory, but you favour incremental, iterative and validated approaches backed by data.
• You understand that building products is a team sport. We value strong opinions and direction, but we need to pull together.
• You understand, align with and live our company values.

Benefits

Salary ranges

• L4

III:
90-100k

• L5: k

To avoid confusion or disappointment:
We have clear expectations for higher levels and the upper end of these salary bands. We will assess your seniority level during the interview process.

These are _our_ levels, so please don't expect having held a title previously is a guarantee for a certain level.

Bonus
We pay goal-based bonuses up to 10%, with a track-record of doing so since 2019.


Benefits

• 40€/month VWL Insurance Policy. Cash value 480€/year
• Up to 50€/month internet cost reimbursement. Net cash value 600€/year
• Personal development budget
• 4 day workweek/20% time
• 22 vacation days
• Flexible hours
• Remote in Germany + 90 days per year work from anywhere (Berlin time ±4h)

Process
Our standard hiring process for engineers consists of three rounds. No homework. No coding challenge (but pair programming).

As this role entail people manage