Your Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 3 engineers responsible for emnify’s mission-critical mobile core services. This team ensures the connectivity, scalability, and reliability of our core network infrastructure, powering customer devices across 500+ mobile networks worldwide.

Together with your team, you will design, implement, and operate emnify’s mobile core, which includes essential 3GPP components such as SIGTRAN, Diameter routers, HLR/HSS, AuC, and SMSC. These services enable secure authentication, signaling, and messaging for devices using an emnify SIM card across 500+ networks.

To achieve this, you will work with Java, Go, Erlang, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Grafana, Prometheus, and microservices architectures, ensuring the scalability and resilience of our core network.

You will foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture while guiding technical decision-making, team growth, and cross-functional collaboration.

Location: Germany-wide or Poland-wide (monthly travel to Berlin required). If relocation, then Berlin or Würzburg.

Your Impact

• Team Leadership & Development: Hire, coach, and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, trust, and accountability.
• Technical & Architectural Oversight: Guide key technical decisions while ensuring scalable and resilient systems.
• Operational Excellence: Balance long-term improvements with day-to-day operational needs, including on-call responsibilities.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with product, data, and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Strategic Growth & Roadmap Execution: Support roadmap planning and drive technical initiatives to scale the platform.

Your Skills

• Effective Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts, align stakeholders, and foster team-wide transparency.
• Technical Competency: Experience in mobile core networks (SS7, SIGTRAN, Diameter, HLR/HSS, SMSC) and cloud-based solutions (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Adaptability & Problem-Solving: Balance hands-on involvement with leadership responsibilities, making data-driven decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Accountability & Tactical Execution: Strong engineering leadership with a track record of driving high-performance teams and operational excellence.
• Relationship Building & Team Development: Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers, ensuring both individual and team growth.