Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Several years of experience leading software engineers as a people manager, ideally in a product-led B2C or marketplace environment
• A strong technical foundation: you've worked as a senior engineer yourself and can still credibly engage on architecture, code, and technical trade-offs
• Comfort with our stack: we build in TypeScript across both backend and frontend, with some older services still in Java and Groovy
• A product mindset: you care about outcomes over output and know how to connect engineering work to user and business impact
• Experience growing engineers across levels – coaching, feedback, and performance management hold no secrets for you
• Pragmatism in balancing delivery speed, quality, and maintainability
• Fluent English (our company language); German is a plus

What the job involves

• We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Supply engineering team – the team that owns the talent side of our marketplace. Your team of 5-7 engineers builds the experience our Zenjobbers use to discover, book, and get paid for jobs, and the services that keep the supply side of the marketplace healthy
• You'll partner closely with your product counterpart. This is a player-coach role: we're looking for someone who leads through people but stays close enough to the code to guide architecture decisions, unblock the team, and keep the technical bar high
• Lead, coach, and grow a cross-functional team of full-stack engineers – owning their development, engagement, and performance
• Own delivery for the Supply domain: shape the roadmap with your product partner, break down complex initiatives, and ensure the team ships predictably and with quality
• Engage deeply with the product: question assumptions, challenge proposals, and bring ideas of your own – constructively, and always with the business impact in mind
• Embrace how AI keeps reshaping engineering as a craft: advocate for the increased autonomy these tools bring, and support your team by role-modelling their usage
• Stay hands-on: guide system design and architecture decisions, review code where it matters, and contribute when it accelerates the team
• Drive operational excellence – monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement of the team's engineering practices
• Hire and onboard engineers as the team evolves, and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives beyond your team
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and stakeholders across Product, Operations, and Marketing to align the supply side of the marketplace with company goals