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Head of Engineering - Berlin - AWIN AG｜Meet.jobs

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83k - 107k EUR Annually

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    Job description

    With twenty years of experience, our network offers a global community of people, technology and business intelligence insights. No matter what type of partner, level of service, or tools your business needs, Awin provides solutions to drive sustainable growth.

    Part of the Axel Springer and United Internet Groups, with ShareASale, Awin’s global affiliate network is powered by 15 offices worldwide, over 1,000 employees, 230,000 contributing publishers and 16,500 advertisers.

    Connecting businesses with customers around the world across the retail, telecommunications, travel and finance verticals, Awin generated €10.9 billion in revenue for its advertisers and €806 million for its publishers in the last financial year.

     

    Purpose of Position

    Awin's Product Development department is responsible for all stages of the product lifecycle - from ideation to market release, ongoing operation and continuous improvement. With our main locations being Berlin, London and Hanover, this department is 90 people strong.

    As Head of Engineering - Berlin you are responsible for overseeing and managing all operations within the Berlin engineering centre consisting of 4 (soon 5) engineering teams. You will liaise and collaborate closely with your peers - the London and Hanover Heads of Engineering and the Berlin Head of Product. This job is a senior role within the Product Development team and will report to the Director of Engineering.

    We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in managing and growing technical teams with a track record of delivering technical projects. You are a passionate and innovative technologist with a proactive quality-first mindset, keen to make an impact and drive our people, technology and agile practices forward. We value fresh perspectives, continuous personal growth, diversity and a healthy work-life balance. For example: We're currently trialling a 4-day-week at full salary, and flexible remote working comes by default with a home office budget.

    Key Tasks

    • Managing 4-5 engineering teams, providing guidance, support & mentoring
    • Championing modern engineering culture, collaboration, the use of best practices and ensuring the implementation of latest technologies in an architecturally sound way
    • Line management and personnel development for Lead Engineers and their teams, fostering an open feedback culture, continuous improvements and development of high-performing, multi-skilled engineering teams
    • Liaising with business and technical stakeholders across the company as well as external partners
    • Close coordination and cooperation with Product leadership and other Engineering centres
    • Drive the hiring process for the Engineering centre and support recruitement across the wider department
    • Reviewing technical approaches, facilitating technical thought leadership with support from our Architecture team to build new products, improve existing ones and help shape development best practices
    • Hands on support where needed, ranging from managing escalations, supporting the teams to meet release dates, resolve incidents to addressing technical and interpersonal challenge
     

    Skills & Expertise

    To be successful you will need to meet the below requirements:

    • Extensive experience in growing, leading, managing and guiding a technical team of 20+ people (including experience managing other managers)
    • Experience in working with cross-functional teams including Product teams and Business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions that create user value, constantly balancing technical and business needs in a pragmatic way
    • Experience in influencing and driving business and technical strategies
    • Well versed with people management tasks including recruitement, personnel development, giving feedback and solving interpersonal conflicts – passionate to apply these to foster personal and professional growth in the team
    • Experience with setting and delivering on goals both for yourself and your teams, KPI driven and able to prioritise to achieve outcomes
    • Experience working in a fast-moving environment, dealing with ambiguity and change
    • Technical background and experience with software design of performant and large scale systems that meet business needs without over-engineering
    • Strong knowledge of agile development processes and current best practices
    • Collaborative attitude and superb organizational skills, a problem solving mindset and the ability to make strategic decisions – combined with the motivation to make an impact
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills, fluent in English

    Although not required, we would be excited if you had experience with some of the below:

    • Experience with growth in organisations, scaling from start-up to enterprise
    • Experience in delivering transformational projects and programmes of work, process and change management
    • Experience working in the digital marketing space
    • Hands-on experience with our current tech stack (Java, SpringBoot, AWS, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Docker, Angular, Microservice architecture, REST APIs)
    • Experience working on subscription or high-volume transactional systems
    • Experience refactoring legacy applications

    You will be expected to have an understanding of what affiliate marketing is and what we do in the industry for any role within Awin.

     

    Our Offer

    • With staff wellbeing at the forefront of our minds, we have shifted to a 4-day week on a trial basis, offering our employees the opportunity to spend time with family and friends, focus on a long-fostered passion, or take up personal studies
    • Flexible working hours
    • Numerous training opportunities to nurture self-development
    • Say thank you to colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer programme
    • 2 paid days off per year, during working hours to volunteer with a community organization

    Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

    Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

    AWIN AG