Engineering Manager (1-year maternity cover)

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join us in Berlin or remotely to cover for maternity leave. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will support five engineers distributed across two teams.

The Journey team works on products that allow users to experience and increase their individual and collective climate impact on Ecosia enjoyably. They also enable other teams to deliver their own features behind a user account (synchronize settings, store chat history, etc).

The Lifecycle and Marketing team works on understanding the Ecosia user journey (acquisition, activation, etc). It connects users with content and products across different channels (in-product communication, emails, landing pages, etc).

As their people manager, you will enable your engineers to grow professionally, deliver great impact, and be empowered to manage their own tasks effectively. You will assist your team in maintaining operational excellence, supporting their technical decisions, and managing internal and external stakeholder expectations.

You will enrich our equitable, inclusive, curious, and fun Engineering culture with your Product and Engineering management peers. Join us to contribute greatly to our planet!

• Work alongside the team to overcome technical challenges, ensuring operational excellence, and leveraging your skills to find innovative solutions.

• Ensure the seamless execution and timely delivery of projects and experiments.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across teams to implement cross-team initiatives.

• Enable your team to be professionally capable by removing roadblocks, facilitating decisions, resolving conflicts, improving processes, and providing assistance.

• Hold regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth conversations to plan and support career development, including coaching and mentoring.

• Review team's performance, ensuring compensation and evaluation are fair and equitable.

• Inspire an atmosphere of continuous improvement and ensure that engineers continue to learn and share knowledge and insights across teams.

• Co-create a collaborative and inclusive culture in line with our company values.

• You enjoy developing and growing people and have a documented history of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring engineers with different profiles and backgrounds.

• You possess an experienced background in designing and shipping software to production, showcasing the ability to effectively guide the team in initiatives through the whole life cycle (from problem space to monitoring in production).

• You are comfortable navigating the technical stack, including cloud and infrastructure-as-code.

• You acknowledge diversity and understand the importance of creating an inclusive workplace (crucial!).

• You have a bias towards action and pragmatism, both in your own work and in your enablement of others

• Talent Partner call (⏱️ 45')

• Management call (⏱️ 60')

• Technical conversation - system design (⏱️ 1h15')

• Product call (⏱️ 45-60')

What if your job made a real difference in the climate crisis? Join Ecosia and help plant millions of trees where people and ecosystems need them most.

• We are a diverse team, committed to equality, equity, and inclusion, with members from various backgrounds: sexual orientations, genders, ages, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical and mental disabilities, family structures, and religions.

• We offer you the opportunity to balance work with other parts of your life: flexible working hours, 30 vacation days per year (based on a five-day workweek), designated Focus Times, and remote work options. (Note: Not applicable to freelance contracts; different labor laws may apply in other countries.)

• Our green benefits program - including subsidized public transport cards and bike inspection services - supports your sustainable living choices in Berlin. (Availability may vary by location; not applicable to freelance contracts.)

• We support your professional growth through learning times, hack days, online and physical libraries, and continuous feedback. (Not applicable to freelance contracts.)

110 (November 2025): our departments include Engineering (incl. Platform and QA), Product (incl. Design), Trees, Operations (incl. Marketing, B2B & BI), and People.

We are a remote-friendly company with one office in Berlin-Wedding. People come to the office or work from home per their wishes and/or circumstances. Some roles require presence in the office at least from time to time. Company language: English. The Talent Partner will tell you more.