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Engineering Team Leader

Confidential company · Posted Jun 4, 2026

Public summary

This role involves leading a small engineering team of 3-5 engineers, managing team dynamics, and participating in product development. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, onboarding, and driving innovative automation workflows. The position supports a fully remote working environment and emphasizes diversity, equality and inclusion. Candidates should have prior experience managing engineering teams and strong backend development skills with a functional programming background. The company offers flexible work schedules, global team collaboration, and comprehensive benefits.

Location and work setup

Location
Germany
Remote status
Remote
German requirement signal
No German Required Detected
Detected job language
English

Salary

USD 75450.00 - 169700.00 year

Responsibilities

Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers including backend and frontend developers. Spend approximately 30% of time on management tasks and remain actively involved in product development. Participate in hiring and onboarding processes and support peers with recruitment. Act as team spokesperson managing dynamics, providing continuous feedback, career coaching, and fostering team growth. Redesign engineering workflows using autonomous agents to optimize execution and speed. Propose and implement agentic workflows end-to-end while ensuring quality through verification mechanisms.

Qualifications

Proven experience managing an engineering team of at least two people. Strong backend development expertise with knowledge of Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or other functional programming languages. Demonstrated ability in building production systems that are secure, reliable and scalable. Experience designing or adopting agentic or automation workflows and iteratively improving them. Excellent communication, organizational skills, and a people-first leadership approach. Commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, along with strong automation and AI capabilities.

Skills

team management backend development functional programming Elixir Phoenix Ruby automation workflows agentic workflows software architecture coaching hiring