
Engineering Manager - Invoicing (All Genders)
zooplus SE
Posted about 12 hours ago
Job Description
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join Invoicing team in the Finance domain. You will lead a cross-functional product team of highly skilled software engineers, balancing people leadership, delivery accountability, and technical stewardship. You create an environment where teams do their best work, deliver reliably, and continuously improve, while staying aligned with business and technology goals.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow people: Coach, mentor, and develop engineers through regular feedback, 1:1s, and clear growth plans; hire and retain a strong, balanced team.
- Own delivery: Take accountability for the team’s commitments by setting clear goals, managing risks, and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.
- Champion technical excellence: Guide architectural decisions, promote best practices, and ensure solutions are robust, maintainable, and fit for purpose.
- Remove obstacles: Act as a servant leader, clearing blockers and improving team effectiveness.
- Collaborate and influence: Work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders, contributing to shared standards, processes, and long-term technical direction.
- Stay hands-on when needed: Step into technical discussions or delivery support to help the team succeed.
- Change & Transformation: Lead AI driven transformation initiatives
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software development, including hands-on engineering roles.
- Proven track record of leading, developing, and supporting software engineers in a people management role.
- Strong engineering and system design fundamentals, with the ability to guide architecture and technical decision-making.
- Able to work effectively with product, design, and other stakeholders in a cross-functional, distributed environment.
- Comfortable owning results, prioritising effectively, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
- Strong proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin with a solid understanding of DevOps practices.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, openness to feedback, and the ability to make thoughtful, sometimes bold decisions.
- Proven ability to lead change in quickly evolving environment
- Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance team productivity and development speed
Additional Information
Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.
Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.
At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.
#LI-Hybrid
Job details
zooplus SE
Retail
About
We are zooplus. With over 25 years of exclusive focus on online retail in pet supplies, we are a trailblazer in the industry. Every day, we go the extra mile to meet the unique needs of pets, delivering exceptional value to our customers with an ever-expanding range of nutritional and lifestyle products, proprietary premium food and accessory brands, expert advice, convenient services, and loyalty programs. Our commitment to innovation drives us as a team to lead the industry and set new standards for personalized, convenient shopping, consistently exceeding our customers' expectations. This dedication has made us the number one choice for over 11 million customers in 30 countries across Europe. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, zooplus employs over 1,200 people across Europe.
Company Details
Key Team Members

Frank Altrichter

Lionel Desclée

Adrien Motte

Krzysztof Danhofer
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