Engineering Manager (w/m/d)

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

📍 Location - Berlin / Belgrade

👥 Team: Cross-functional product team

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

Responsibilities

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

 

Technical Scope

• 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

• 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

About us

At AVIV, we are an equal opportunities employer and an organisation where everyone is welcomed to be their authentic selves. We strongly encourage individuals with visible and non visible disabilities, all educational backgrounds, people from minority backgrounds, those from the LGBTQIA+ community and parents and carers to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, or wish to discuss part time or flexible working requirements, please let us know.

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