Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

From point-of-sale systems and delivery software to eCommerce platforms and mobile assistants. As an engineering hub, we do offer a wide range of solutions to digitize our wholesale business! It’s also here where we share know-how, ideas and our passion for technology. We try to understand the user by getting ourselves involved in product discoveries. Meeting METRO customers and employees helps us see their challenges and code with them in mind. Your Responsibilities:  -Holistic leadership: Recruit, lead, develop and coach software engineers who work in multiple different product teams. Support your teams become (or stay) empowered products teams by solving customer problems rather than implementing a backlog -Strategy and culture: Discuss and help define the tech strategy for products you are technically responsible for. Work closely together with other engineering managers and directors in defining and implementing our overall engineering strategy and culture. Partner with other tech and business leaders in the company to drive the success of our digital products -Bar raiser: Engage as a participant in technical discussions and decision making together with your engineers and architects Required key competencies and qualifications: -You have experience with leading and developing people and a track record as an accomplished leader. You have great people skills and can manage a diverse collection of engineering professionals -You have excellent communication skills and can communicate effectively with people from a wide range of experiences and professional backgrounds -You are or have been an accomplished engineer in your past career and as a non-manager have to experience technically mentoring junior engineers -You feel very comfortable with our tech setup (experience with a variety of modern programming languages, continuous delivery, NoSQL databases, DevOps/SRE, and public clouds (GCP))