Team Manager Backend Engineering; gn

Team Manager Backend Engineering (gn) full-time/ part-time

Your job at DKV Mobility? As part of a leading European B2B platform for on-the-road payment solutions, you will work in an exciting environment. Our tasks are defined by our

Purpose:

To drive the transition towards an efficient and sustainable future of mobility. We offer you numerous opportunities to help shape the mobility of tomorrow in a dynamic and agile environment. Our approximately 2,700 employees throughout Europe are united by a common passion: to give their best every day for our customers in more than 50 countries. True to our claim:
You drive, we care. Become part of our diverse, dedicated and unique team!

• You define the technical architecture and strategic direction of our backend systems within your area of responsibility.
• You design, develop, and optimize APIs, services, integrations, and backend platforms.
• You drive key technical decisions related to scalability, performance, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• You ensure that technical solutions align with our enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• You establish and continuously evolve standards for API design, service ownership, observability, reliability, security, documentation, and lifecycle management.
• You drive automation, testing, CI/CD, and the continuous improvement of engineering productivity.
• You take end-to-end ownership of our backend services and ensure operational readiness through monitoring, incident management, and operational excellence.
• You provide technical leadership to backend engineers, coach experienced colleagues, and support the development of strong and sustainable engineering capabilities.

• You have several years of experience in software engineering and possess a deep understanding of modern backend technologies.
• You have successfully led technical teams and coached both backend engineers and experienced developers in their professional growth.
• You bring strong expertise in designing and developing distributed systems and modern software architectures.
• You have extensive experience with microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures.
• You understand security principles and consistently apply them when making architectural decisions and building scalable software solutions.
• You are familiar with modern approaches to observability, reliability, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• You can translate complex business requirements into scalable, high-performing, and future-proof technical solutions.
• You stand out through strong communication skills, leadership capabilities, and a collaborative approach when working with Product Management, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Security, and Operations teams.

We are looking forward to your application and to applicants who enrich our diverse culture! Regardless of age, gender, origin and sexual identity and orientation. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if equally qualified. This position can be full-time or part-time (min. 30h/week). DKV Mobility is looking for the best talents and knows that these are not always available on a full-time basis.

Many of our employees work part-time or in flexible working models. Please talk to us about the flexibility you need during the application process.

At DKV Mobility, we are team players - because we are only successful together! #teamofteams

How we do it? We keep adapting our products and business model to meet changing customer needs. That's how we stay mobile and master every challenge the future holds.

There are also many other good reasons to work at DKV Mobility. For example, we offer you comprehensive company health management, parent-child offices (from 2023) and support you in leasing your eBike through our partner Jobrad!

We stand for the compatibility of family and career! That's why we offer flexible working hours and family-friendly working time models. In addition, we rely on a balanced mix of on-site meetings and home office.

We offer you optimal conditions to familiarize yourself so that you can quickly find your way around and become a part of the team! To further your personal development, we offer you access to a modern learning environment - independent of time and location. This way you can also face the challenges of…