Engineering Manager (f/m/d)

Apaleo is the world's most open, API-first property management platform powering the next generation of hospitality operations. Apaleo Pay is the payments product that complements the property management platform. It runs as its own service, so the team owns what it builds and what it runs. The team is migrating Apaleo Pay to Adyen's newer platform and taking on more responsibility for payments, including security and resilience. This is a hybrid role in which the engineering manager spends at least 30% of their time as a hands-on engineer and joins the engineering leadership team.

Responsibilities

Help every engineer do their best work: build their skills, find their next step and grow without being forced down a single path; Build a team that works as one unit, where everyone feels included and heard; Earn the trust of experienced engineers and coach people at different stages of their careers; Work with the Product Manager to deliver real customer value: shape scope, estimate honestly and make sure work gets finished; Own the team's way of working and keep improving it; Help the team make technical decisions without over-analysis; Guide the team through the Adyen platform migration, with a strong focus on security and resilience; Lead hiring, onboarding and team composition as the team grows; Champion modern engineering practices: continuous delivery, DORA metrics, a blameless incident culture and an AI-driven development pipeline; Bring company-wide engineering initiatives into the team and bring the team's needs back out; Spend at least 30% of time as a hands-on engineer with your team and the rest leading people, delivery and process; Join the engineering leadership team

Requirements

Previous leadership experience; Empathy, genuine interest in people and the confidence to give and act upon feedback; Clear, target-oriented and appreciative communication; Professional English (C1); A solid grasp of digital product development principles: Agile, Lean, DevOps, continuous delivery and how an idea travels from customer insight to impact; Comfort with being both a leader and a builder, and clarity on how you balance the two; A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset and a love of learning; Use of AI in your own work and a view on how it changes engineering teams; Senior-level software engineering experience on a modern web technology stack; Experience with distributed systems, message-driven architecture and the cloud

Nice to have

Genuine interest in payments; Experience with payment service providers or fintech

Benefits

An International Team with colleagues from over 20 nationalities; 360° feedback reviews, an evolving career framework and an annual learning budget of €1,000+; Autonomy and ownership; Real impact in a fast-growing scale-up; Fair pay with competitive salaries guided by benchmarking data and recognition for performance and contribution; Flexible work from home, the office or a hybrid mix; 30 days of vacation and an EGYM Wellpass membership; Fully covered Deutschland Ticket for travel across Germany; Regular team dinners, company meetups and offsite events