Software Engineering Manager (d/f/m)

Location: Munich, Germany

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Short Facts

• Employment Type: Full‐Time, indefinite term
• Salary Range: €115,000 – €135,000 per year gross (depending on seniority level)
• Office‐first work setup
• Language Requirement: C1 level English

Your Responsibilities

• Technical leadership
  • Set direction and strategy for the team while ensuring individual contributors own the design and delivery of their work.
  • Engage directly in design discussions, review proposals, and give specific, high‐quality feedback that sharpens engineers’ decisions.
  • Establish a culture of engineering excellence and ownership with a high bar for quality, reliability, and speed.
• AI
  • Champion AI‐assisted engineering and set the standard for how tools like Claude are used in daily development.
  • Define and drive the team’s AI strategy: identify where AI creates real leverage in products and workflows, and turn that into measurable outcomes.
• People
  • Coach and grow engineers, owning their technical development, performance, and career progression.
  • Work closely with recruiters and leadership to attract and hire high‐potential candidates.
• Organization and delivery
  • Find knowledge and skill gaps on the team and actively close them through coaching, hiring, and structural changes.
  • Improve processes to increase speed and effectiveness of delivery, without adding bureaucracy.
  • Partner with executives and leads on decision making, program management, and execution.
  • Track complex dependencies across internal and external teams and keep delivery on course.
  • Shape the company’s culture.

Your Profile

• Mandatory Requirements
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related tech field.
  • 5+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of leadership experience, ideally in backend development and cloud platforms.
  • Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and developing high‐performing engineering teams.
  • Strong proficiency in backend development: object‐oriented programming (e.g., Python), cloud (e.g., AWS), virtualization and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g., CDK), workflow orchestration (e.g., Step Functions), observability (e.g., Datadog, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Grafana).
  • A leadership style built on ownership: enabling engineers to own design and delivery rather than doing it for them.
  • Hands‐on experience with AI coding tools such as Claude and a clear point of view on integrating them into engineering workflows.
  • Experience in strategic technical cross‐team coordination and leadership.
  • Ability to identify and track complex dependencies across multiple internal and external teams.
• Skills to Set You Apart
  • Energy trading experience.
  • A track record of defining and rolling out an AI adoption strategy for an engineering team.
• This role may not be a fit for you if...
  • You haven’t worked in a start‐up environment.
  • You believe the manager should own the architecture and make the technical calls; here, that is the engineers’ job.

Your Benefits

• Competitive compensation package: salary, benefits, and options.
• Professional development: annual budget of €3,000 for coaching, trainings, books, etc.
• Health & sports subsidy: company‐subsidised sports facilities membership.
• Public transportation subsidy: monthly subsidy for a public transport ticket.
• Lunch/Dinner allowance vouchers: digital meal vouchers on working days.
• Work equipment: MacBook or Windows laptop and ergonomic workplace.

At Entrix, we are committed to diversity – of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Contact in our People Team

Carolin Starke – carolin.starke.ext@entrixenergy.com