Software Engineering Manager

AutoSync builds software that helps automotive dealerships simplify operations, improve marketing, and drive sales. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the full-stack engineering team responsible for our Activix (CRM) Platform and related services. You will combine people leadership with hands-on technical credibility and strong delivery management. You can guide engineers through design, review, and troubleshooting while building a team that makes sound decisions and delivers independently. Part of AutoScout24 group. Team: Activix CRM.

Responsibilities

Take ownership and get things done, turning ambiguous goals into practical next steps and tracking actions to completion; Lead and develop people, setting clear expectations, providing feedback, supporting career development, and hiring and onboarding engineers; Plan and manage delivery with Product, UX, Data, and adjacent teams, including facilitating Scrum ceremonies, assessing capacity, tracking progress, managing dependencies and risks, and reporting status; Build sustainable ways of working, matching work in progress to capacity and protecting time for technical improvement and mentoring; Provide credible technical leadership by participating in design and code reviews, investigating difficult issues, and balancing delivery speed with maintainability, performance, and security; Solve technical and delivery problems with curiosity and creativity, bringing options with trade-offs and recommendations; Own engineering and operational health, including service ownership, standards for testing, observability, accessibility, security, privacy, release readiness, service-level objectives, and incident response; Lead practical AI adoption across discovery, implementation, testing, review, and documentation, requiring validation and accountable human decisions on merges and releases; Improve team effectiveness using customer outcomes, delivery flow, software quality, reliability, and team health

Requirements

At least five years of engineering leadership experience, with evidence of developing people, building effective teams, and delivering software products; Experience with hiring, coaching, career development, and constructive performance management; Examples of personally moving difficult work forward, resolving blockers, and completing agreed actions; Strong software engineering background and experience building and operating scalable, public-facing web applications; Ability to explain architecture and code-level trade-offs, contribute to design and code reviews, and troubleshoot across applications, integrations, and cloud infrastructure; Practical experience combining Scrum Master responsibilities with project management skills; Examples of investigating unfamiliar problems and recommending workable paths; Experience using AI-assisted engineering workflows and helping others adopt them; Clear communication, empathetic coaching, and inclusive leadership; Hands-on experience building and troubleshooting Laravel applications and services, including API design, authentication, background jobs, and application architecture; Experience with Vue web applications, including component design, state management, testing, and the Vite build toolchain; Practical experience with PostgreSQL or comparable relational databases, Redis caching and queues, APIs, and event-driven integrations; Working knowledge of React Native and React, iOS and Android delivery, API integration, authentication, and push notifications; Experience guiding cloud deployments and CI/CD, with working knowledge of Docker, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, and GitHub Actions; Working knowledge of automated testing, search indexing, identity, and observability, including PHPUnit, Vitest, Playwright, Jest, Appium, Auth0, and Sentry