# Engineering Manager - Experience Above the Box (all genders)

**Company**: tonies GmbH
**Location**: Düsseldorf
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://tonies.jobs.personio.com/job/2802319?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

## Job Description

Join tonies, the globally leading interactive audio platform for children, as an Engineering Manager for our Above-the-Box value stream. You will lead a cross-functional team that owns the Tonies experiences end-to-end, from device through App and cloud, across every Toniebox generation and every device our products will run on.

## Key Responsibilities

- Team Leadership: Nurture the professional growth of your engineers and build a culture of inclusive mentorship, continuous learning, and high collaboration.

- Building & Scaling the Team: Grow the team as our roadmap grows, shaping the profiles we hire, onboarding and integrating external engineers, and ensuring critical knowledge stays with the team.

- End-to-End Ownership: Make your team genuinely accountable for its experiences , embedded, app, and cloud.

- Architectural Oversight: Oversee the structural integrity of the Above-the-Box implementations, ensuring a consistent user experience across multiple device generations.

- Interfaces & Dependencies: Define the application-level APIs your team needs from our platform teams and turn cross-team dependencies into clear, testable contracts.

- Product Sync & Strategy: Synchronise with Product Management to prioritise features and technical debt, ensuring that every engineering cycle directly fuels the overarching tonies product vision.

- Leading Through Change: Bring the team through transitions with a clear vision, identifying what needs to improve and driving those improvements together with your engineers.

- Technical Credibility & Hands-on Depth: Stay close enough to the code to run high-impact reviews, challenge architectural decisions, and step in on critical problems.

- Delivery Excellence: Manage the end-to-end delivery process, applying lean principles to streamline workflows and ensure stable, plannable, reliable releases.

## Requirements

- Leadership & Team Empowerment: Experience leading engineering teams, including specialists outside your own discipline.

- Technical Acumen & Hands-on Depth: Background as a software engineer with genuine full-stack breadth.

- Architectural Vision: Advocate for modular, flexibly extendable, loosely coupled architectures.

- Strategic Product Alignment: Act as the bridge between engineering and product strategy.

- The Toolbox: Solid experience with software platforms and their architecture, Linux, Git, GitLab, and CI/CD.

- Clean Design & Simplicity: Champion lean structures and solve complex problems with simple, elegant solutions.

- Work Style: Approach defined by agility, empathy, and creativity.

- Communication & Collaboration: Confident communication in professional English.

## Benefits

- Global Teamwork: Collaborate across departmental and country borders.

- Come as you are: Inclusive and diverse work environment.

- Mobility: Choose from various mobility options.

- Enhanced Security: Subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.

- Rest & Time Off: 30 days of paid annual leave plus three additional days off.

- Continuous Learning: Internal and external training opportunities and individual learning budget.

- Language Learning & Relaxation: Access to language learning and meditation apps.

- Discounts: Attractive discounts on tonies products.

## Skills

### Required
- Software Engineering
- Team Leadership
- Architecture
- Product Management
- Linux
- Git
- GitLab
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- German language
- Experience working with ODMs or hardware suppliers

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