Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Founded in 2020, Superchat has become the platform of choice for 10,000+ businesses worldwide, from globally recognized brands like Allianz, Auto1, Enpal, Danone, and GASAG to the small businesses, dental practices, and one-person startups that need to look bigger than they are. Today, millions of messages flow through Superchat every single day.

We started as a unified inbox: one place for every channel a customer might pick, WhatsApp, email, SMS, Instagram. Then ChatGPT happened, and the second chapter began: AI agents that respond across chat, email, and voice at the quality of the best human teams.

We're 100 people, profitable, and have raised €18M in funding (last round 4.5 years ago, we've been growing on our own money since). Headquartered in Berlin.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one or more squads. You'll partner directly with the CTO to develop engineers, ship reliable software, and shape how our team works as we scale.

You bring 3–5+ years of people management experience in software engineering, ideally in B2B SaaS environments.

You have a track record of leading squads of 5-10 engineers through full product and delivery cycles.

You come from a strong technical background (former Senior Engineer or equivalent), read code comfortably, and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions.

Your former reports got promoted, took on broader scope, or grew into roles that better matched their strengths.

You have experience hiring engineers and successfully closing high-quality candidates.

You are comfortable having clear, honest, and sometimes difficult conversations when needed.

You are fluent in written and spoken English. You communicate clearly across engineering, product, and leadership teams and create alignment through strong written and verbal communication.

You treat engineering as a ticketing operation focused only on timelines and task tracking instead of product quality, technical health, and team growth. We need engineering leaders, not project coordinators.

You moved into management mainly to stop coding rather than because you genuinely enjoy leading, coaching, and developing people. This role requires a real interest in people leadership, not retreating from technical work.

You want to personally own architecture decisions alone instead of enabling strong technical ownership within engineering teams. Engineers own architecture decisions - you participate, challenge, and sponsor the right investments.

You are entering engineering management for the first time and have not yet experienced leading teams through performance, hiring, and scaling challenges. We’re looking for someone who has already managed engineering teams successfully.

You prefer fully remote work and don’t want to actively build relationships and culture in person with the team. We believe strong engineering leadership requires regular in-person collaboration and presence in Berlin.

• You run weekly or bi-weekly 1:1s with each of your direct reports to support growth, alignment, and execution
• You lead growth conversations and performance reviews - including development planning, quarterly check-ins, and calibration sessions with peers and the CTO
• You work closely with PMs and senior engineers on cycle planning, scoping, prioritization, dependencies, and team capacity
• You actively participate in architecture and tech debt discussions - challenging decisions, supporting strong technical direction, and sponsoring long-term investments
• You play a key role in hiring - from interviewing and feedback to debriefs and closing strong candidates
• You collaborate closely across squads with other Engineering Managers and the CTO to maintain alignment and execution quality
• You handle difficult conversations directly and thoughtfully - including performance issues, conflicts, and compensation discussions, with support from the CTO where needed

It’s important to us to create an environment where people genuinely enjoy spending time together - whether that’s through HYROX training, golfing, beer pong tournaments, running clubs, Warhammer, weekend activities, or whatever kind of community you’d like to help build here!