Your Tasks

• Primary liaison role between Product teams and the Platform, ensuring seamless integration, translation of product needs into platform capabilities, and alignment of skills and capacity with business priorities
• Line management and mentorship of an engineering team, including professional development planning, regular performance reviews, and effective performance management
• Leadership of recruitment activities, including hiring, onboarding, and offboarding, in collaboration with HR/Recruiting, as well as management of third-party partnerships and talent sourcing efforts
• Technical advisory support for engineers on solution design, architectural patterns, and technical backlog prioritization, with an emphasis on adherence to platform standards and best practices
• Contribution to strategic platform direction, encompassing budgeting, resource planning, and long-term investment decisions for talent and technology
• Relationship building and cross-functional collaboration across product teams and the broader technology organization
• Creation of a psychologically safe environment that promotes open feedback, continuous learning, and team empowerment, supported by role modeling of desired behaviors
• Identification and removal of organizational and interpersonal obstacles to ensure effective and efficient team execution

Your Profile

• Proven experience in engineering leadership, preferably within a product- or platform-oriented context; bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience required
• Strong commitment to people development, with demonstrated expertise in mentoring, performance management (including IDPs and feedback processes), and high-trust team building
• Comprehensive understanding of the recruitment lifecycle, including talent identification, interviewing, and scaling of engineering teams
• Solid technical foundation with the ability to provide architectural guidance; knowledge of Full Stack technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Go) considered advantageous
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or comparable cloud environments, or a strong motivation for skill acquisition in this area
• Proficiency in agile methodologies and cross-functional collaboration practices
• Exceptional communication ability combined with empathy and relationship-building competence to drive effective solutions
• Strategic mindset, self-motivation, and hands-on approach with a strong impact orientation

About Us

MediaMarktSaturn Technology is working to make Europe’s number-one consumer electronics retailer the technology leader in its industry. To this end, several hundred developers, UX designers and system architects using state-of-the-art technology work hand in hand with business owners in agile teams to develop customer-focused technology solutions for more than 6 million customers every day in 11 countries.

The Subscription & Services Platform Team consists of backend and frontend engineers that are working on several product teams in the area of Contracts, Subscriptions, Service Products and Executions.

The best solutions come from bringing together diverse perspectives. Embracing diversity is key to achieving our vision of becoming the Experience Champion. We value inclusion, foster equal opportunity, and welcome you to be part of our team.