Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Grow with us – Start your career at IU!

Are you an experienced manager in software development looking for a new professional challenge?

Then seize this opportunity and join us – IU International University – immediately, either full-time, at our location in Munich or remotely, as an "Engineering Manager (m/f/d)" and drive the development of our teams.

• Develop and maintain a healthy culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration through servant leadership.

• Develop a hiring plan and acquire new talent to further expand your teams, following the principle of "hire for attitude, train for skills."

• Enable your developers to achieve their best performance and support their professional growth by inspiring them to embrace new challenges and expand their skills.

• Ensure high team productivity and the delivery of business values to various stakeholders in close collaboration with our product and agile leaders.

• Ensure appropriate technical ownership in conjunction with your teams for solutions that meet business and user needs and ensure the implementation of best practices. 

• Foster an agile working environment, promoting open communication, adaptability, and iterative progress by leading and mentoring cross functional teams. 

• Provide delivery assurance to the business and manage risks and/or impediments.

• Advocate for continuous improvement and technical and operational excellence within the engineering community. Ensure clear measures are in place to drive performance, quality, usability and team output/outcomes.

• Several years of experience in shaping and leading large software development teams.

• Several years of experience in a technical leadership role.

• Experienced in delivering modern, scalable, performant solutions with high quality and usability.

• Experience in developing, coaching, and mentoring software developers.

• Empathy and strong social skills, as well as the ability to inspire your teams.

• Team player with strong organizational and communication skills in English.

• Excellent knowledge of and interest in modern technologies.

• Experience working in agile and multi-stakeholder environments with the ability to promote agile principles throughout the team. 

• Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we'll help you make it happen.

• Work from wherever you want …: Modern tools and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits. From time to time you will be required to attend collaboration sessions or department get togethers.

• You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.

• Take your knowledge to a new level: Benefit from a 100% discount on tuition fees for an IU combined degree in the tech sector and many other free training courses. There is always something new to learn.

• Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? How about a sabbatical?

Become part of software development department and lead one of our software development units at Germany's largest university with over 100,000 students! We're passionate, competitive, open to new technologies, and we live to develop anything that makes IU students and IU services better. Our vision is: "Everybody can access education to grow"

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now!

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Lutz at lutz.behler@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our “Culture Of Everyone” very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!