Hands-on Engineering Manager

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🕒 October 3

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 €85k - €100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Hackstack.

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2 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • B2B

Hackstack is an engineer-led open-source talent collective focused on strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty. It connects expert open-source, cloud, and infrastructure engineers (Kubernetes, NixOS, Rust, Go, eBPF, Terraform, WireGuard, Prometheus, ArgoCD, Cilium, GitOps, Zero Trust, WASM, etc. ) with European cloud providers, platform engineering teams, infrastructure companies, public-sector tech, and open-source organizations. The group emphasizes technical assessment over CV keywords, community-driven stewardship, ethical and sustainable relationships, and a Europe-first vision for resilient, sovereign digital infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead an engineering team both technically and organizationally • Establish clear priorities and responsibilities, and ensure effective execution • Make architectural decisions, conduct code reviews, develop technical concepts, and implement solutions hands-on • Translate business requirements into realistic technical plans • Provide transparent visibility into progress, risks, and dependencies • Work closely with Product, Business, and executive leadership • Represent Engineering in key discussions • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide constructive feedback, and support developers in their professional and personal growth • Structure development processes, release workflows, team rituals, and incident handling • Support hiring, team building, and the continued development of a productive engineering culture • Challenge requirements constructively and prioritize technical feasibility

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience • Experience leading or providing technical direction to developers, for example as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Senior Engineer with team responsibility, Founding Engineer, or in a comparable role • Willingness to continue working in a technical, hands-on capacity • Solid understanding of modern backend architectures, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and production-ready software development • Experience with Python or comparable backend technologies is a plus, but not required • Experience with AI-related products, automation, data-driven workflows, or modern AI integrations is an advantage • Clear, dependable, and understandable communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong decision-making skills and ownership of execution • Fluent German and English required

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of €85,000 to €100,000, with potential for higher compensation depending on seniority and impact • Fair bonus schemes • Established remote culture across Germany • Flexible structures • Teams of experienced senior engineers • Significant responsibility without unnecessary corporate bureaucracy • An environment where leadership and hands-on engineering go hand in hand