Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

at  Hive Technologies GmbH

THE POSITION

At Hive, we’re building the leading operations platform for independent commerce and we are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team.
Your work will impact hundreds of commerce brands and millions of end customers across our merchant-facing product (“Hive App”), our end customer offering (“Customer Portal” and “Delivery Promise”), and our Warehouse Management Software.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Lead and mentor a high-performance engineering team, providing regular feedback, supporting professional growth, and ensuring effective onboarding of new members.
• Oversee project planning, estimations, and resource management, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to define project scopes, deliverables, and prioritize the technical backlog, including technical debt and improvements.
• Maintain high standards of code quality and software craftsmanship, ensuring adherence to architectural decisions and best practices throughout development.
• Manage the successful deployment of software releases, ensuring quality, reliability, and monitoring critical systems with observability practices.
• Lead incident response efforts, ensuring timely issue resolution and conducting post-incident analyses to prevent future occurrences.
• Actively participate in recruitment and retention efforts, focusing on career growth opportunities, fostering a positive team environment, and maintaining high employee engagement (eNPS).

You’ve led teams before. You have experience managing engineering teams, driving complex projects to completion, and balancing technical leadership with people management. Ideally, you’ve worked as an Engineering Manager for 3+ years, or in a technical leadership role with a similar scope.

• You’re strategic and hands-on. You can zoom in and out of problems, from high-level planning to technical details. You’re able to make architectural decisions while keeping an eye on the overall business impact.
• You care about technical excellence. You uphold high standards of code quality and software craftsmanship, ensuring your team delivers well-tested, maintainable solutions that can scale. Architecture and best practices matter to you.
• You prioritize delivery. You understand that shipping reliable, high-quality software is essential, but you also know how to balance timelines and trade-offs. You’re experienced in overseeing software releases, ensuring operational success and stability.
• Mentor at heart. You enjoy guiding and coaching engineers, helping them grow in their careers, and creating a collaborative and high-performance team environment. You believe in providing regular, constructive feedback to help people thrive