Engineering Manager

About the role

At Aviv, you will work on a

large-scale real estate platform

serving

50\+ million monthly visits

across B2C and B2B journeys.

As part of Aviv, our mission is to

unlock everyone’s perfect place

, and technology is at the core of how we deliver on that at scale. This is an opportunity to lead a team in a

product-driven, international environment

, shaping architecture, engineering culture, and delivery practices.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers across domains while solving complex data, performance, and distributed systems challenges.

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager with a strong technical background and leadership skills to lead a cross-functional team. You will be responsible for team performance, predictable delivery, and engineering quality while contributing to architecture and code when needed.

You will report to the Head of Engineering / Engineering director and work closely with Product, Design, and Analytics to deliver business impact.

In this role you will:

Team Leadership \& People Management

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team (4-9 people), providing context, focus, and clear goals
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; run performance reviews and continuous feedback cycles
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence
• Hold the team accountable for outcomes, quality, and delivery predictability

Delivery \& Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery: planning, prioritisation, decomposition, and dependency management
• Manage risks, remove blockers, and ensure on-time or ahead-of-schedule execution
• Drive roadmap and OKRs together with Product and stakeholders
• Communicate plans, progress, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders

Technical Leadership (Hands-On up to \~40%)

• Contribute to architecture, prototypes, and critical code paths when needed
• Validate technical solutions: service design, integrations, data models, contracts, reliability
• Ensure technical initiatives are aligned with the product roadmap and appropriately prioritized

Engineering Excellence

• Establish and improve engineering practices in line with corporate standards: code reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, observability, incident management
• Ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems using Clean Architecture principles
• Drive performance, profiling, and cost-efficiency improvements
• Promote AI-agent-driven development and modern developer productivity practices

What you will bring

• Strong system design and delivery experience
• Experience working with modern architectures (e.g., event-driven systems, queues/streams, caching, rate limiting, service integrations)
• Solid understanding of data modeling, performance optimisation, and reliability principles
• Experience with cloud environments and infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS or comparable platforms, CI/CD, containerisation)
• Familiarity with observability, incident management, and operational excellence practices
• Our current primary stack includes Node.js, TypeScript, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, SNS/SQS, DynamoDB, ECS/Fargate), GitHub, Docker, CircleCI, and Terraform

Qualifications

• 5\+ years of software engineering experience
• 2\+ years of people management experience with responsibility for team outcomes and delivery
• Proven ownership of team performance, people development, and predictable delivery
• Strong experience designing scalable services and distributed systems
• Experience building pragmatic processes that improve quality without bureaucracy
• Hands-on experience with modern development tooling and AI-assisted workflows
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills in English (German is a plus)
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly master new technical domains and deep dive into diverse stacks, from web to native applications

📍 Location: Germany (Berlin)

👥 Team: Cross-functional product team

🧑 💻 Role type: Hands-on (engineering contribution \+ people leadership)