Engineering Manager

Introduction

PowerUs is building the ultimate career platform for skilled bluecollar workers. Our platform helps workers find jobs they love and guide them in their professional journey from apprenticeship until retirement. On the other hand we help companies hire skilled workers faster so they can complete their projects especially in the renewable energy sector such as solar and wind energy. Qualified workers are the most important missing link in the energy transition towards renewable energy.

With the help of our platform users can enter these new and exciting industries and earn up to 50% more. We have just raised 24 million in our Series B financing round! Backed by our investors such as Eurazeo General Catalyst Headline and HV Capital as well as successful business angels such as Max Viessmann the founders of Personio and Mario Gtze we can truly commit to our mission of a more sustainable future.

Job Mission

As the Engineering Manager on our Company Squad you will be a technical leader and a people manager. While your work will be primarily handsoff youll bring deep technical experience organisational awareness and decisionmaking skills to make the team more autonomous more productive and to operate with higher morale. Company Squad manage the B2B side of our business and focus solely on making hiring companies successful. Whether these are smaller regional businesses or huge national and multinational corporations Company Squad offer the tools processes integrations and analytics to make them happy.

What Youll Do

• Lead and manage a team of full stack engineers providing mentoring guidance and technical oversight in driving the delivery of projects that create customer impact.
• Collaborate with Product Management and stakeholders across the business to deliver software that meets our strategic goals.
• Help to drive the future technical direction of the squad.
• Build a culture of technical innovation and craftsmanship operational excellence product understanding and business awareness.
• Develop a robust engineering team through identifying skill and experience needs recruitment onboarding coaching and finding opportunities for professional development.
• Influence work priorities outside your team through sponsoring the right technical solutions for problems that span multiple products and services.
• Manage and optimise the teams productivity and morale.
• Identify and tackle problems have difficult conversations where necessary act as tiebreaker and decisionmaker to ensure your team and the company move forward.

What Were Looking For

• You have at 6 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of management experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• Strong technical background as a software engineer developing large scale endtoend software solutions.
• Enjoy approaching complex topics with an open mind and eye for simplicity.
• Have a passion for people supporting and coaching your engineers without micromanaging.
• Apply the same care to customer experience and product quality as you do to technical topics and be able to foster that in others.
• Ability to quickly build relationships with stakeholders and work in a solutionoriented way.
• Ability to build highperforming and selfdriving teams that are able to balance speed quality and risk.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including Employee Stock Options.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely across Germany or from our vibrant office in Berlin with an impressive roof terrace
• Plus unlimited drinks and snacks to keep you fueled throughout the day.
• 30 days of vacation to ensure you have time to recharge.
• Annual budget for L&D via LOTARO to support your professional growth.
• Mobility flat rate of 50/month for sharing services like cars scooters and public transport for employees based in Germany.
• Discounts for Urban Sports Club or Gym Pass to keep you active and healthy for employees based in Germany.
• Join an earlystage fastgrowing startup backed by Tier1 investors.
• Make a significant impact on company strategy from day one and collaborate directly with the founders.

As an equal opportunity employer we proudly welcome applications from people of all races ethnicities disability statuses ages religions gender identities and sexual orientations. We encourage you to apply even if you dont think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the role and our mission. Nobody checks every box and were looking for team members who are genuinely excited to join PowerUs! We look forward to receiving your application!