Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

As an Engineering Manager (m/f/d), you will lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams responsible for customer-facing products and internal platforms.

About Redcare Pharmacy

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• As Europe’s No.1 e-pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation.
• We strive to create a healthy, collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision “Until every human has their health”.
• If you’re seeking a career that offers purpose and aligns with your values, join us and begin your #Redcareer today.
• Our teams build and operate cloud-native, microservice-based applications following a “you build it, you run it” approach.
• Cross-functional product teams have end-to-end ownership and use modern engineering practices, automation, observability, and data to continuously improve their products and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop multiple engineering teams, fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish a clear engineering agenda based on an understanding of the teams’ strengths, challenges, and opportunities.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape priorities and balance customer value, business needs, delivery commitments, and technical excellence.
• Create clarity around priorities and ownership, proactively manage risks, communicate them early, and ensure reliable follow-through on commitments.
• Support engineers through regular feedback, career development, mentoring, and performance management.
• Provide technical direction, help teams address root causes, and steer them towards simple, maintainable solutions without acting as an individual contributor.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and stakeholders, addressing conflicts constructively and driving cross-team initiatives.
• Use data and measurable outcomes to improve delivery, reliability, cost efficiency, team effectiveness, and customer impact.
• You will provide clear direction, empower teams to take ownership, and ensure that engineering priorities translate into reliable delivery and measurable impact.
• Working closely with Product and business stakeholders, you will help shape solutions that create customer and business value.

Requirements

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams in a product-oriented environment.
• A strong track record of creating direction, driving execution, and achieving measurable outcomes.
• A passion for coaching, mentoring, and helping engineers grow.
• Sufficient technical depth to recognize what good looks like, challenge constructively, and guide teams towards sound decisions.
• A proactive, structured leadership style with strong ownership and follow-through.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust and effective partnerships across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Business.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, modern software engineering practices, and agile product development.
• Experience in e-commerce is a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits: Sports: Stay healthy.
• Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life.
• Anonymous and free of charge.
• We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time.
• Grow!
• We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)

Work from Home

If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.