Engineering Manager

koppla is building the next-gen collaborative scheduling platform for construction , helping project managers keep projects on time by identifying delays and disruptions before they impact timelines.

We are looking for a people-focussed Engineering Manager to lead and develop our engineering team. We have a team of high-performing, driven and product-minded engineers across all seniority levels who care deeply about what they build and how they grow. Partnering closely with our VP Product and our CEO, your main responsibility will be developing our team (~10 engineers) and ensure we keep shipping a high
-quality product. You will not lead our technical decision making, but be a key contributor to it.

Compensation: €100k-130k + 45% of your base salary in equity on top

Location:

Berlin (Hybrid, 3+ days/week in office); open for candidates willing to relocate to Berlin

At koppla, we're a fun and ambitious team on a mission to help the construction industry build more efficiently. We're already partnering with top construction companies and delivering impressive results for our customers (multi-months speed-ups discovered through koppla). Our ambitions are backed by leading VCs (Earlybird, Newion) and industry angels as we tackle a billion-dollar opportunity problem in an under digitized and underserved market.

Our culture is core to who we are and we've built one we're genuinely proud of. We are not looking for hypergrowth - we believe in hiring slowly to create an environment of few but very high-performing team members that build a truly great product (similar to Netflix , Ashby or Linear ).

You'll be the dedicated people leader for our engineers across all seniority levels - actively developing our high-performing, driven team, sharpening how we work, and making sure great people stay and grow.

• Lead and develop our engineering team. Run regular 1:1s, give direct and actionable feedback and own career development across the full seniority spectrum - from an early junior finding their footing to an aspiring staff engineer. This is the core of the role.
• Improve delivery, processes, and purposeful AI adoption. Adopt our existing processes, challenge and support the senior engineers in operational excellence, and identify where AI genuinely improves how we work and what we ship (e.g., reducing rework, sharpening code review, accelerating problem-solving).
• Hands‑on‑guidance. Maintain enough proximity to the codebase and technical discussions to support junior engineers on code quality and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions with the senior engineers (while not having to be the decision‑maker).
• Eliminate silos. You treat Product and Engineering as a single team, not two functions that coordinate. You bring engineers closer to product and product closer to engineering in how the team plans, decides, and ships, working hand in hand with Product, Design, and UX Research. You ensure context is shared and no critical knowledge sits with just one person.
• Hiring. You’ll be deeply involved in engineering hiring:
  You help close current open roles, assess technical talent, and keep raising the bar as the team grows.

• Frontend:
  Typescript, Vue 3, Tailwind, Netlify, GH Actions
• Backend:
  Typescript, AWS, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, REST, Websockets, Terraform, GH Actions

You're an experienced hands‑on people manager with a strong engineering background and a people first mindset who gets more energy from developing others than from solving things yourself.

• Prior engineering management experience in a startup. You've managed engineers as an engineering manager (or similar) before, preferably in a Seed/Series A/B or similar…