Engineering Manager (f/m/d) Core Backend

About Working at envelio

Too easy is boring! Together, we are on a mission to drive forward the energy transition. We love what we do, and we are unafraid to dive in. We believe in taking ownership of our work and in continuously growing and evolving. In short: own it, love it, grow with it.

We are a humble team of coffee and maté lovers with over 20 nationalities. With our geek humor, our love for emojis and random facts is only natural. Over 130 envelians are already on board. Dive in and thrive!

Your Role

As Engineering Manager - Core Team (f/m/d) you will lead a backend-driven engineering squad (approx. 6 people). At its core, the squad owns the underlying data models and internal workflows of the Grid Hub - a digital twin of the electrical energy grid - enabling other squads to build efficient and scalable solution on top of it. Together with your team, you ensure the platform remains robust and consistent, ensuring long-term scaling and feature extension capabilities. You work in a management team together with other Engineering Managers, as well as the Engineering Director and VP Engineering.

How You Make an Impact

• You coach, mentor and help your direct reports to grow as engineers through 1:1s, performance reviews and regular feedback
• You work closely with the squad, Product Owner and further stakeholders and orchestrate the process of refining the product and technical roadmap
• You steer and monitor the delivery of software in the squad in an agile working environment and enable your squad to deliver software of high value in an efficient and consistent way
• You develop the squad by identifying and attracting talent during the recruiting process and shape the individual growth paths of your direct reports
• You incorporate your technical knowledge over code reviews and sparring on technical concepts
• You shape engineering practices by contributing your ideas in technical or organizational projects in the department

Your Profile

Perfection is a myth! We’re more interested in the human behind the screen, so think of these criteria as helpful directions — we're excited to see how your unique skills might fit in.

• You have a proven skillset to lead and manage a cross-functional group of Software Engineers and are comfortable to apply this for a wide range of engineer skill levels (from Junior to Staff Engineer)
• You have strong experience in the development of web applications and are familiar with all relevant domains, preferably in the design of core business workflows or database modelling
• You strive in complex environments and enjoy working on challenging technical problems, for example in the domains graph-theory, electrical engineering, business workflows or digital-twins
• You are experienced in growing and forming a diverse team by recruiting and subsequent teambuilding
• You have excellent communication skills and are motivated to coach Engineers on their personal and professional growth path
• You are familiar with parts of our tech stack and are confident to work with it
• You are business-fluent in English (Level C1/C2)

How we develop Software

• Agile working method with Kanban in cross-functional Squads
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
• Clean (and simple) Code
• Code Reviews and Merge Requests
• Modern web-based tools for documentation and organization
• “You Code it – You Own it – You Run it” – Squad Responsibility for certain functional areas of the product

Our Tech Stack

• Python, incl. additional packages/frameworks e.g., FastAPI, Celery
• PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
• RabbitMQ, Redis
• Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes

Your Benefits

• Join us fully remote or at our lovely office in Cologne in a hybrid working mode
• Option for remote work from abroad (up to three months per year) 
• State of the art technology and modern tech stack
• Excellent hardware equipment (16-inch MacBooks, 2 screens at your workplace)
• 30 holidays + 3 corporate holidays 
• Support for your health through sports membership cooperations 
• Flexible use of a monthly mobility budget (e.g. Jobrad, public transport)
• Time and resources for individual growth 
• envelio pension plan 
• Regular company and team events

 What else? 

• Dynamic and multinational team (already 19 nationalities)   
• Tech, Trust and Eco characterize us as a company - We continuously focus on living our values in everyday life
• Meaningful work which drives forward the energy transition and supports a sustainable future