Senior Engineering Manager, Core Commerce Services (m/f/d)

About your tasks:

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team through people management, mentoring and hiring.
• Define the technical vision, architecture and roadmap for the Core Commerce Services domain.
• Drive the design and delivery of scalable services and platform capabilities, including our headless checkout.
• Establish clear domain boundaries, APIs and integration patterns using domain-driven design principles.
• Collaborate with Product and adjacent engineering teams, including Payments, while balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Ensure operational excellence through secure, scalable, resilient and observable systems.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

About you:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager.
• Strong background in backend engineering and large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in defining software architecture, APIs, event-driven systems and domain-driven design.
• Track record of building and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience with e-commerce platforms, core business services or high-volume transactional systems.
• Strong technical judgment combined with empathetic leadership and excellent stakeholder management.
• Ability to balance customer, business and technical priorities while making sound architectural decisions.
• Interest in emerging AI-powered and agentic commerce technologies.

About your benefits:

In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
• Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
• Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
• Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
• Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
• And many more :)