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Engineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)

CarOnSale49 open roles

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Berlin, Germany
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Your applicationOpen nowEngineering Manager – Auctions (m/w/d)CarOnSale · Berlin, Germany

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10.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. CarOnSale postings stay open a median of 12 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.0%1 day
  2. 4.0%3 days
  3. 10.1%7 days
  4. 15.8%14 days
  5. 34.0%30 days
This job: posted 5 hours ago

CarOnSale median: 12 days open

The posting

Thousands of dealers bid on our platform, and every bid runs through the system your team owns. Real-time auctions, every selling modality, seven engineers from mid-level to staff, and a dedicated Product Manager. You decide where it goes next.

Location: Central Berlin – hybrid, with 3 days in our office and 2 days from home.

About us

CarOnSale is the AI-powered platform for B2B used car trading in Europe. Over 40,000 buyers from more than 20 countries trade on our platform — and 85% of inventory is exclusive to us. We connect software, pricing intelligence, logistics and financing in one layer — as the operating system for an entire industry.

One Platform. One Profit Engine.

What you'll do

  • You lead the TRX team: real-time auctioning and the selling modalities at the core of our platform. Seven engineers across backend, web and mobile, working with a dedicated Product Manager, across European and Brazilian time zones.
  • You own the team's technical direction. You set the strategy for the auction domain, tie it to OKRs, and make the architecture calls with the team.
  • You own delivery and quality. You run the delivery method, decide which testing layers carry which risks, and make sure what ships holds up under live auctions.
  • You own the team's technical metrics: what is tracked, what alerts, and what happens when it fires.
  • You build the team. You hire, level, grow, and when needed, manage people out.
  • You run the people processes: onboarding, growth plans, a regular feedback cadence, and mentoring across levels.
  • You balance product and engineering. You say no to engineering work in business terms and no to product work in risk terms, and you can defend the call either way.
  • You push AI adoption in the team and use AI tooling in your own work.

What you bring

  • 8+ years as a software engineer in individual contributor roles before moving into management. You don't need to code day to day, but you have coded heavily and still think in architecture and design.
  • 2+ years managing engineers as their line manager, with performance and hiring responsibility. Tech lead time does not count here.
  • Depth in distributed systems: services, concurrency, data consistency.
  • A team you assembled yourself, not only one you inherited: people you hired, levelled and grew.
  • A delivery methodology you have run, whether Scrum, Kanban or one you shaped, plus a clear view of testing layers and how to apply them.
  • A technical strategy you owned for a team or a domain, tied to OKRs or another form of technical governance.
  • An AI-first way of working: you use tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot every day and have driven adoption in a team.
  • English at C1 level or above — it is our working language.

Nice to have

  • Real-time or event-driven systems under real load
  • Object-oriented and domain-driven design
  • Experience under more than one delivery methodology, and a view on how they compare
  • A team taken through a monolith-to-services migration or its aftermath, or a team you stabilised
  • Managing a team distributed across time zones
  • A background in marketplaces, auctions, automotive, payments or trading
  • Our stack: TypeScript and NestJS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Angular on web, Flutter on mobile
  • German

What we offer

  • Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 days remote – plus 25 "Work from Anywhere" days per year
  • 28 days annual leave
  • 2× annual career & development conversations
  • Company pension with 20% employer contribution
  • Fully paid Deutschlandticket (public transport)
  • FitX membership or Urban Sports Club subsidy
  • Virtual stock options — share in the upside
  • Modern IT setup for your day-to-day work
  • Structured onboarding with buddy programme and social events
  • Lived diversity: active women's network, meditation & prayer room

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