Engineering Manager (f/m/x)

Department: Development

Employment Type: Permanent employee

Schedule: Full-time

Seniority: Experienced

Location: Hamburg

This is a company built for growth.

At exmox, you’ll work on real systems on a big scale. We build high-performing consumer products used by millions, operating in a highly competitive, global mobile gaming ecosystem.

Our products are data-driven by design - powered by event-driven architectures, complex business logic, and fast feedback loops. Decisions are informed by data, experimentation, and measurable impact, not gut feeling.

We’re scaling fast and building one of the most exciting innovations in mobile gaming: rewarded user acquisition. That means evolving architecture, and problems that don’t have textbook answers.

As Engineering Manager (f/m/x), you lead from the front setting the pace for technical excellence, ownership, and delivery. You build and grow a strong team, raise the bar through coaching and clear expectations, and create an environment where great engineers thrive.You stay close to the technology and drive key technical decisions: architecture, system design, and critical implementation work when it matters. You work tightly with Product, Data, and Design to turn ambitious goals into execution that’s fast, scalable, and reliable.

This role is for someone who wants to build high-performing teams and systems, taking pride in shipping results that perform reliably at scale. If you’re energized by complex systems, high traffic, data-driven decisions, and tackling challenging problems, we want to hear from you. 

What You’ll Own

• Team leadership & culture
  You lead a cross-functional engineering team, providing both disciplinary and technical leadership. You mentor engineers, support their development, and help shape team structure and growth. You foster a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement, championing agile practices and efficient delivery processes.

• Hands-on engineering & technical direction
  You actively contribute to system design, critical code paths, and technical problem solving. You translate product and business requirements into clear technical direction, guiding your team to deliver high-quality solutions across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.

• Reliability, performance & scalability
  You own the reliability, security, and performance of services running on a globally distributed cloud platform (AWS, Kubernetes). You monitor and optimize services and infrastructure with a focus on scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence, while driving expansion into new regions and evolving architectures as the platform scales.

• Cross-functional collaboration & delivery
  You collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Engineering, and BI teams to deliver solutions aligned with business goals. You encourage teamwork and shared ownership to consistently meet project milestones while maintaining technical excellence.

• Proven engineering & leadership experience
  Several years of experience building and shipping production systems as a software engineer, with demonstrated success leading engineers and owning both delivery and team development.

• Hands-on technical expertise
  Comfort staying close to technical details while operating at a system and product level. Experience across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, with hands-on experience building and operating cloud-based services in production. Practical experience with modern web and service technologies such as Python, Golang, JavaScript, FastAPI, and Vue.js.

• Distributed systems & data-driven mindset
  Experience running distributed systems at scale in production and working in data-driven product teams that leverage metrics and experimentation to guide decisions.

• Collaboration & problem-solving
  Strong collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems and turn them into concrete solutions. Comfortable working in fast-changing environments and solving problems without textbook answers.

• Motivation & ownership
  You are motivated to build high-quality systems while growing strong, effective engineering teams.

• Nice to have
  Experience with mobile technologies such as Flutter or React Native
  Experience working in consumer products or gaming-related environments

• Ambitious people, real ownership. You’ll work with driven, entrepreneurial people who care deeply about what they deliver, challenge each other openly, and own outcomes together.

• We’re playing at the top, but we’re not done. Our apps rank in the top 5 of their categories. We’re determined to push further, compete harder, and earn the number one spot.

• You own your own growth. Growth doesn’t happen by accident. At exmox, learning is built into the work - through responsibility, feedback, and real challenges. 

• Perks that help you focus on what matters. Transport subsidy, learning budget, wellness and gym, workation, bi-weekly team lunches, and more. The perks are great - but the real reason people join and stay is the challenge, the people, and the drive to win together.

Please note: this is not a remote only position, we offer you a flexible hybrid model here in Hamburg, Germany - working from home on Mondays & Fridays, coming to the office on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday!