Engineering Manager (100%, m/f/d)
Team
LEASETEQ builds the orchestration brain for mid‑market car leasing and asset finance in the DACH region. Our platform automates the full contract lifecycle – from origination and credit decision through to end‑of‑term – using Flowable BPM as the core process engine on a modern, event‑driven microservices architecture. We are an AI‑first engineering team: agents, intelligent workflows and LLM‑augmented automation are how we build today, not items on a future roadmap. From our base in Switzerland and our subsidaries in Austria and Germany, you join a small, senior team where your decisions have visible impact on customers, partners and the future of our product.
Activities
At LEASETEQ you are the driver of our core engineering team in Berlin: you create clarity, keep delivery flowing and help a growing group of senior engineers do the best work of their careers. You combine facilitation, coaching and hands‑on decision‑making to shape how we build our fintech platform, working closely with our founders and with a strong development partner team in Southeast Asia. In this role you are not just “running Scrum” – you are a creator who co‑designs our ways of working, our AI‑first toolstack and, over time, the entire engineering organization.
Own and continuously improve all Scrum events (planning, reviews, retros, stand‑ups) for the core product team
Act as the bridge between Product Owner, engineering and Swiss leadership, turning product vision into executable roadmaps
Lead and coach a hybrid team of around 5 senior engineers plus a flexible SEA developer pool
Design async workflows, handover routines and working agreements with our Southeast Asia partners across time zones
Track and communicate engineering KPIs and delivery health, making issues visible early and proposing options
Support career development through regular feedback, 1:1s and growth paths for engineers
Champion AI‑first ways of working (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude, code‑analysis tools) and experiment with new productivity boosters
Facilitate effective hybrid collaboration (2–3 days in the office, rest remote)
Run everyday communication in German while switching to English for SEA coordination when needed
Requirements
5+ years experience as Scrum Master, Agile Coach or Engineering Manager in a product software environment
Proven track record managing distributed teams across time zones, ideally including Asia‑Pacific
Solid technical literacy: you understand modern web architectures, CI/CD and can talk shop with senior engineers
Scrum certification (CSM or PSM I/II or similar)
Confident using Jira and modern async collaboration tooling (e.g. Notion/Confluence, Slack/Teams, Miro)
Native or near‑native German skills for day‑to‑day team communication
Very good English for international collaboration
Experience in fintech, insurtech or enterprise SaaS is a strong plus
Mindset: servant leader, high ownership, low ego, curious about AI and automation, eager to build culture not just follow process
Why us
Real influence on team culture, engineering processes and how we scale the organization
Direct reporting line to the CTO and regular interaction with the founders
Hybrid setup with 2-3 days per week in our coworking office in Berlin (WeWork, Stresemannstrasse)
Competitive and fair salary: €80,000 - €100,000 gross per year, depending on experience and impact
10–15% annual bonus tied to company performance and clear OKRs
Tax‑free monthly benefit allowance of €50 that you can use for what you personally value
Sustainable mobility budget: subsidy for e‑bike leasing and app‑based car sharing (e.g. short‑term rentals instead of a company car) for occasional trips.
Additional health insurance covering dental and vision
Company pension plan with 20-25% employer top‑up and full protection under the statutory pension‑security scheme
Employer funded BU disability insurance from day one
Dedicated AI tooling budget (e.g. Cursor, Claude API, Copilot) so you can experiment and move fast
Our remote policy promises 4 weeks & worldwide
Modern apple devices