The Role
As the Engineering Manager for Zenjobs Mobile & Martech Platform Team you will be at the forefront of enabling our Product & Engineering (P&E) teams to build and evolve the platform that powers all clientfacing experiences for our workers. This includes our Mobile apps our website and key Martech integrations.
Your mission is to make this platform accessible and effective for engineers across the organization while maintaining high technical standards. This is a handson leadership role where youll drive technical direction foster team development and strengthen crossfunctional alignment.
is on the mission to become the digital staffing platform delivering companies best staffing experience with the highest flexibility and reliability and workers the best choice and fair pay for side jobs. Our service is available in over 39 cities in Germany. Our growth financing round of $50 million (45 million) from February 2022 is helping us to scale our platform and add new databased automation features for our rapidly growing customer base
What Youll Do
Technical Leadership
- Drive the evolution of our clientfacing platform to ensure its accessible flexible and simple for all P&E teams to contribute.
- Define and uphold high standards for code quality technical design and performance especially around React and React Native development.
- Work with Product Managers to influence and prioritize the teams technical roadmap ensuring alignment with business needs.
Team Management
- Hire mentor and support engineers while fostering an inclusive environment that encourages learning growth and open collaboration.
- Ensure the teams goals align with Zenjobs broader business objectives supporting a resultsdriven mindset.
CrossTeam Collaboration
- Ensure the platforms documentation tools and processes support smooth crossfunctional contributions from other teams.
- Partner with the Marketing team to enhance integrations with tools like Adjust Braze and many others.
- Build strong connections with other teams to reduce technical silos unify development workflows and share best practices.
Platform Enablement and Support
- Drive efforts to make the Mobile platform selfservice by developing tools automation and clear processes that empower teams to contribute independently.
- Be a point of contact for teams leveraging the platform offering support and guidance where needed.
Who You Are
- Technically Proficient: Youre a frontend expert with solid experience in React and/or React Native (bonus points for deep expertise in both) and you have a strong appreciation for clean maintainable code.
- Experienced Engineering Manager: Youve spent a couple of years leading engineering teams ideally with a focus on frontend or mobile platforms. You understand the balance between technical leadership and team management and are comfortable guiding your team to achieve both quality and efficiency.
- OutcomeFocused: You ensure that engineering efforts are aligned with business impact prioritizing projects that support tangible outcomes.
- Effective Communicator: You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English ensuring clarity and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
Engineering at Zenjob
Our engineers from around the globe are building the services that power our platformfrom our mobile and web apps to our matching core and the digital document management system. Our engineering team works closely with Product to support every department and deliver value to our users. We embrace new technologies and strive for ownership simplicity stability scalability and security to build the future of work.
Our Tech Stack
Our platform runs on AWS Kubernetes Istio Terraform and Docker which allows us to scale efficiently. Microservices and backends are developed using Node.js Java and Spring Boot while our web frontend runs on React. Quality is ensured with tools like Playwright JUnit and other automated testing frameworks. We value an experimental mindset using A/B testing and constant user feedback to refine our products.
Bring Your whole Self to Zenjob
We know that diverse teams build better products and we strive to create an inclusive environment for everyone. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply and help us shape the future of work!
What we offer
- A supportive open and fun team that will have your back from day 1.
- Twentyeight days of vacation (increases based on tenure to up to 30 days) 1day special leave paid for charity work five days of paid educational leave and the option of unpaid leave.
- Hybrid work setup combining office & remote work (3 days from office 2 days home) flexible working hours bring your dog policy.
- Ongoing focus on your personal development (annual development budget of EUR 1000 mentoring opportunities continuous career conversations)
- Mental Health support via Likeminded
- Monthly 30 EUR subsidy on Urban Sports Club 25% discount on FitX gym membership
- Monthly 40 EUR credit for NAVIT a sustainable mobility solution spanning public transport bikesharing.
- Taxfree meal allowance (saving EUR 50 net per month!)
- Quarterly team get togethers budget for employees birthdays winter & summer parties plus regular cultural talks & events
If this sounds exciting to you then wed love to find out more about you! Apply and send in your application.
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