About your tasks:
- Shape Retail Media & Marketplace: Set the engineering direction across both domains, deciding where the platforms should converge to create the most value for brands, sellers and Redcare.
- Lead and grow the organisation: Develop your Engineering Managers and their teams, shaping the organisation as the domains evolve while creating an environment with clear ownership and autonomy.
- Drive engineering excellence: Own delivery, reliability, architecture and technical debt, continuously raising engineering maturity and enabling teams to move quickly without compromising quality.
- Turn technology into commercial impact: Co-own roadmaps with Product and Commercial, connecting engineering priorities to outcomes such as take rate, advertiser ROAS, seller economics and contribution margin.
- Own strategic partnerships: Lead engineering relationships with external platforms, integrators and agencies, including build/buy/partner decisions, integrations, SLAs and vendor performance.
About you:
- You have 3+ years of experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers or leads and have successfully led organisations through significant change, such as merging domains, introducing new scope or replacing a platform.
- You have led development of commercial B2B platforms such as a marketplace, retail media, ad tech, payments or a seller/partner platform, with experience across high-traffic and transactional systems.
- You combine strong technical judgement with commercial thinking, connecting engineering decisions to business outcomes and confidently partnering with senior Product and Commercial stakeholders.
- You care deeply about engineering excellence, can demonstrate measurable improvements you have driven, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, external partners and competing priorities. Strong English communication skills are essential.
About your benefits:
In order to provide you with the best possible support for your individual needs - whether it‘s living a healthy life, having enough time for your family, or developing your skills - we offer a wide range of different, site-specific 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.
- 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.
- Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
- Vacation: 30 days paid vacation per annum (plus another day on Rosenmontag) and the option to take unpaid vacation of up to 10 days (after one year working with us).
- Corporate pension plan: We offer a company pension scheme and have a dedicated external consultant to offer you the best guidance and advice.