Backend Engineering Manager

🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 Germany, Spain, +2 more countries – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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YAZIO

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Wellness

YAZIO is a health-focused mobile application that helps users manage their diets through calorie counting and intermittent fasting. With features like a user-friendly calorie counter, personalized meal planning, and integration with fitness trackers, the app aims to support individuals in losing weight, building muscle, and eating healthier. YAZIO offers a substantial recipe database tailored to personal preferences, automatic tracking of activities, and has garnered hundreds of thousands of positive user reviews. The app respects user data privacy, complying with GDPR regulations.

📋 Description

• Lead Yazio's Backend Team responsible for the API and AI features in the app • Own team rituals including stand-ups, refinements, sprint planning, retrospectives, and bi-weekly written syncs • Improve how the team works • Build relationships with squad leads and product managers so backend work is included in squad plans • Own the team's quarterly OKR roadmap and keep progress visible to dependent teams • Support engineers through 1:1s, development goals, and timely feedback • Address accountability issues early • Hire team members with the Talent Acquisition team • Monitor production issues and outages, route them to the right person, and ensure resolution • Collaborate with product squads including Monetization, Growth, Tracking Experience, Mobile Platform, Web, Internal Tools, and CRM

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading an engineering team with direct reports • Experience helping a team take on new responsibilities or change how it works • Several years of prior experience as a senior backend engineer • Comfort discussing system design, infrastructure, and technical trade-offs • Ability to coach engineers to make decisions and handle stakeholder conversations • Clear, friendly communication and calmness under pressure, including during outages • Ability to build strong relationships with leads and stakeholders • Strong product mindset • Experience leading a team supporting several product squads at the same time is a bonus • Experience with high-traffic consumer products is a bonus • Experience with backend engineers embedded in product squads is a bonus • Experience steering a business with KPIs and running A/B tests is a bonus • English as the company language • CV in English

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home • Option to join a co-working space • Ability to work abroad for several weeks per year • 30 vacation days • 5 child sick days • No overtime expectations; time off in lieu if overtime occurs • Fully covered company retreat • Team meetups and virtual coffee breaks • MacBook and monitor • €1,000 annual learning budget • Regular feedback and career development • Sunday Supplements and Nilo Health