Engineering Manager - Experience Above the Box (all genders)

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.