Spreadshirt Group is made up of several small to medium-sized businesses. These businesses need support to build cutting-edge services to empower the overall business. We have therefore created a new position and are looking for you as an Engineering Manager with experience in building, managing and motivating high-performing cross-functional development teams. Your mission will be to deliver an easy-to-use platform service portfolio for Spreadshirt Applications to be reused across business units and make them accessible to other divisions of the group wherever beneficial. These services should live up to a standard apt to live up to an individual business' need. In this position you will report directly to our CTO and will be responsible for a team of 20 to 25 employees.

Engineering Manager (f/m/d) Platform in LeipzigSNGießerstraße 2704229Germany

Department: IT
Employment type: full time

Your tasks

  • You will be part of the IT Leadership Team and will take over the disciplinary leadership of our Tech Employees and be responsible for their personal development
  • You will shape our development agenda and manage the engineers within their department in pertinent teams by keeping up the flexibility to form ad-hoc teams for special initiatives
  • You will steer and enhance communication and collaboration between DEV teams within and across all departments, the Product Owners and the stakeholders
  • You will ensure an efficient implementation of the department’s prioritized technical deliverables
  • You will identify opportunities and risks for delivering platform services and applications, including opportunities for technical innovation, assessment of obstacles and technical hurdles to foster business success
  • You will identify technology trends and evaluate their adoptability within Spreadshirt

Your profile

  • You have gained several years of management experience, and ideally, you already gained leadership experience within an international e-commerce company
  • You have excellent communication skills, solution orientation and sense of responsibility as well as a strong sense of initiative
  • You have a very good technical understanding of highly distributed architectures
  • You are experienced in defining and conducting technical renovation and transformation-initiatives
  • You have a good understanding of enterprise-architecture integration, good understanding of data analytics, understanding of IT security and the willingness to drive IT compliance forward
  • You feel comfortable in an international company and speak English fluently, German is a plus

We offer

  • An open and colourful company culture with flexible working hours
  • Great work with friendly colleagues in international teams, flat hierarchies and a lot of room for your ideas
  • Professional development by job and taking part in conferences or external trainings
  • Bright and friendly offices, a huge kitchen area for mutual lunch breaks, terraced roofs and a lot more
  • A feel-good factor thanks to free fruit baskets, water dispensers and coffee vendors
  • Get more insights into the life at Spreadshirt on kununu and in this interview with our CTO

About Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is the self-expression global e-commerce company. It empowers people to express themselves through creating, discovering, and selling clothing and accessories with messages they want the world to hear. Companies like Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube enable self-expression in the digital world but people don’t have the same opportunities in the real world where the need still exists. Spreadshirt’s three approaches – create your own, marketplace and shops – provide limitless opportunity for on-person self-expression. Founded in 2002, Spreadshirt is available in 12 languages, operates five global production sites and ships to over 170 countries. In 2018, it hit global revenue of $123 million, printed more than 5.5 million items, and had over 100,000 selling partners.

Contact

Silvia Lauterbach

Recruiting Specialist
+49 (0)341 59400-5249

We look forward to receiving your application in English or German and by e-mail: jobs@spreadshirt.net. Please state reference number V00-1050 and don't forget to let us know about salary expectations and your earliest starting date.

P.S.: We are not too keen on super straight CVs, extreme adaptive capacities and yea-sayer qualities. What we want are characters full of ideas and drive — no matter how old you are, where you come from and whatever your preferences. Show us what you've got!

We would like to fill this position without support of staffing agencies.

This job offer was posted on 2019-11-14. .

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