Do you want to use your passion and talent to make consumption more sustainable?
We're Europe's fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, empowering customers to acquire items up to 40% cheaper while making a substantial impact on reducing CO2 emissions compared to buying new devices.
Since our launch in February 2017, we grew to more than 300 employees and expanded across the European region. Throughout this journey, we've successfully concluded three substantial funding rounds, selling hundreds of thousands of products. Thanks to our team's efforts, we were recognized as the Top Employer in the DACH region (2023 and 2024) by Kununu and secured the title of an ACM Preferred Employer (2023).
Do you want to use your passion and talent to make consumption more sustainable?
We're Europe's fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, empowering customers to acquire items up to 40% cheaper while making a substantial impact on reducing CO₂ emissions compared to buying new devices.Since our launch in February 2017, we've grown to over 300 employees and expanded across Europe. Throughout this journey, we've successfully concluded three substantial funding rounds and sold hundreds of thousands of products. Thanks to our team's efforts, we were recognized as the Top Employer in the DACH region (2023 and 2024) by Kununu and secured the title of an ACM Preferred Employer (2023 and 2024).
For our Engineering team, we are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (f/m/x) with a solid background in solid background in designing and implementing backend services. Our tech-stack consists of Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, GCP/Kubernetes in the backend and Vue.js, Alpine.js, Tailwind in the frontend.
About the squad: the Delivery & Satisfaction squad manages all post-purchase logic exposed in a customer area.
WHO YOU ARE
- Engineering Leadership & Team Building
- Strong and accepted leader with 5+ years of experience with managing senior backend engineers.
- Proven ability to grow teams, build relationships, earn trust and retain strong engineering leaders while managing performance effectively.
- Technical Expertise & System Design
- Deep knowledge designing and implementing backend services.
- Significant experience in designing robust, high-scale systems by encouraging engineers to develop generic, scalable solutions.
- Solid understanding of SQL and relational database design.
- Experience in software development using the Go programming language.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
- Experience working with remote, multi-functional teams to deliver complex, cross-domain solutions.
- Skilled in collaborating with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and address critical challenges.
- Engineering Culture
- Ability to maintain a strong engineering culture focused on reliability while aligning with business priorities.
- Ability to work autonomously with focus on achieving objectives.
- Fosters collaboration across teams, ensures that every engineer feels ownership of their work.
- Empowers engineers to contribute ideas, make decisions, and take responsibility for delivering quality solutions.
- Seeks and provides feedback, enables knowledge sharing, and strive to adopt modern tools and practices.
- Rejects blaming culture, treats mistakes as learning opportunities, driving constant improvement.
- Educational Background
- Formal education in Computer Science or a related field.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Technical Leadership & Quality of Delivery
- Provide insights to squad members and other engineering and business stakeholders.
- Regularly review code submissions and participate technical design discussions.
- Build and maintain our main APIs and backend services related to squad scope topics.
- Collaborate on Feature Development
- Work closely with Product, Business and Engineering leadership to design and develop new features that enhance the user experience for our customers.
- Facilitates collaboration within the team, identifies and solves blockers and conflicts between people, detects possible problems early.
- Contribute to company and squad planning, defining roadmaps, and short-, mid-, and long-term squad strategy.
- Communication & People management
- Be active member or drive internal squad meetings.
- Conducts frequent 1-1s to keep your team happy and healthy.
- Empower your directs to unlock their potential and support theirs personal and professional growth.
- Actively inform your manager and engineering leadership about squad initiatives and its status, and proactively surface problems.
WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:
Our Culture and Values:
- Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
- We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
- You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
- No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!
Personal & Professional Development:
- You can take unlimited number of trainings we are offering you through LinkedIn learning.
- We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
- We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.
Flexibility:
- We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
- We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
- You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops
…and much more! See https://careers.refurbed.com/ for further insights!
