Engineering Manager Scheduling Team (x/f/m)

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Lead a team of 6 to 7 engineers of mixed seniority, owning delivery, quality and production health end to end — keeping engagement high and standards higher
• Together with your product partner, define the mission and vision for your team and build a roadmap you can defend to stakeholders
• Take part in architecture reviews and help shape the technical direction of the Scheduling stream, including the migration of core scheduling capabilities from the monolith into purpose-built services
• Set and uphold the security, reliability, performance and scalability standards required to remain the most trusted e-health SaaS in Europe
• Partner with Talent and People teams to recruit, develop and retain engineers through career conversations and feedback they can act on
• Embed AI-assisted engineering into how your team works day to day, with a clear and honest view of where it helps and where it does not
• Continuously improve how the team operates — planning, on-call, bug backlog, incident follow-up — so the team spends its energy on what moves the needle

Job details

• Permanent position
• Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Kotlin
• Full-time
• Location: Berlin
• Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)
• Start date: as soon as possible

Who you are

Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

You'll be a great fit if you

• Have at least 6 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of engineering management experience, including leading a team of 5+ engineers through delivery, hiring and growth
• Are credible with senior backend engineers — distributed systems, data modelling, latency and throughput are conversations you can hold and challenge; you stay close enough to the code to review a pull request, without needing to be the one writing it
• Have hands-on experience modernising a large legacy system, ideally extracting services from a monolith, and know how to keep a team delivering while the ground moves
• Are an effective communicator who can translate company goals into team objectives, and who says the uncomfortable thing early rather than late
• Think critically and objectively, with a solution-oriented approach that brings people with you

It would be fantastic if you

• Have worked in a regulated industry such as healthcare or fintech, where privacy and data protection shape design decisions
• Have navigated hyper-growth environments and understand the trade-offs they force on architecture and team organisation
• Have formed a considered view on AI coding assistants — their real benefits and their real shortcomings

What we offer

• A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib
• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz
• Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)
• The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much more
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club
• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode
• Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training