About Working at envelio
Too easy is boring! Together, we are on a mission to drive forward the energy transition. We love what we do, and we are unafraid to dive in. We believe in taking ownership of our work and in continuously growing and evolving. In short: own it, love it, grow with it.
We are a humble team of coffee and maté lovers with over 20 nationalities. With our geek humor, our love for emojis and random facts is only natural. Over 130 envelians are already on board. Dive in and thrive!
Your Role
As Engineering Manager - QA & Software Release Management, you will build and lead a small engineering team. The team’s mission is to structure the outcomes of our continuous development process (including regular new builds and daily releases) and channel them into well-defined, high-quality software releases to enable an additional, versioned release scheme.
The deployment of these software releases into staging and productive environments is coordinated with our customers by you and your team. At the same time, the team will improve our QA processes and establish procedures to reduce the defect rate within our Product. Additionally, you will cooperate in a management team together with other Engineering Managers, as well as the Engineering Directors and VP Engineering.
How You Make an Impact
* In the beginning of your journey, you will build and design the general processes for the company regarding QA procedures and Software Release Management. Based on your designs, you will then build a small team to support you with this mission.
* You will coach, mentor and help your direct reports to grow as engineers through 1:1s, performance reviews and regular feedback.
* You will work closely with your team and other squads within the company to ensure high-quality software releases with thorough QA procedures to guarantee functional stability.
* You will coordinate software deployments of different versions for our customers with external technical stakeholders via different deployment stages such as staging and productive.
* You will monitor the resolution of software defects and vulnerabilities in different versions of the software and ensure mitigation within all relevant versions of the product.
* You will evolve the team by identifying and attracting talent during the recruiting process and shape the individual growth paths of your direct reports.
* You will shape engineering practices by contributing your ideas in technical or organizational projects in the department.
Your Profile
Perfection is a myth! We’re more interested in the human behind the screen, so think of these criteria as helpful directions — we're excited to see how your unique skills might fit in.
* You have a proven skillset to lead and manage a group of Software Engineers and are comfortable applying this for a wide range of engineer skill levels (from Junior to Staff Engineer).
* You have strong experience in QA and testing procedures for web application software and are knowledgeable in the area of Software Release Management.
* You have a strong track record of coordinating and communicating with external technical stakeholders, ideally in a security-critical environment or with large corporations.
* You are experienced in growing and forming a diverse team by recruiting and subsequent teambuilding.
* You have excellent communication skills and are motivated to coach Engineers on their personal and professional growth path.
* You are familiar with parts of our tech stack and are confident to work with it.
* You are business-fluent in German (Level C1/C2) and fluent in English (Level B2).
How we develop Software
* Agile working method with Kanban.
* Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery.
* Clean (and simple) Code.
* Code Reviews and Merge Requests.
* Modern web-based tools for documentation and organization.
* “You Code it – You Own it – You Run it” – Squad/Team Responsibility for certain functional areas of the product.
Our Tech Stack
* Python, incl. additional packages/frameworks e.g., FastAPI, Celery.
* PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB.
* RabbitMQ, Redis.
* Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes.
Your Benefits
* Join us fully remote or at our lovely office in Cologne in a hybrid working mode.
* Option for remote work from abroad (up to three months per year).
* State of the art technology and modern tech stack.
* Excellent hardware equipment (16-inch MacBooks, 2 screens at your workplace).
* 30 holidays + 3 corporate holidays.
* Support for your health through sports membership cooperations.
* Flexible use of a monthly mobility budget (e.g. Jobrad, public transport).
* Time and resources for individual growth.
* envelio pension plan.
* Regular company and team events.
What else?
* Dynamic and multinational team (already 19 nationalities).
* Tech, Trust and Eco characterize us as a company - We continuously focus on living our values in everyday life.
* Meaningful work which drives forward the energy transition and supports a sustainable future.
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