Engineering Manager, Blacklane
Marketplace
Offers virtual stock options
Carbon-neutral global chauffeur service
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Carbon-neutral global chauffeur service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers virtual stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make top-quality service convenient and accessible worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, ideally with previous hands-on software engineering experience and a background as a backend engineer
- Experience managing and growing teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Deep understanding of auction systems, marketplaces, or ride-hailing platforms, with a focus on driving tailored and attractive offers
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams and active engagement in decision-making
- Decisive and confident in handling complex situations
- Passionate about fostering team growth, with a proven track record of mentoring and supporting individual development
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical strategy and leading the evolution of our auction and offer management systems
- You will lead a team of talented engineers, fostering their growth while driving innovation and delivery excellence in a data-driven, collaborative environment
- Define the technical strategy and oversee the evolution of our auction system to ensure tailored and attractive offers for our chauffeurs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Product, Pricing, and Data—to ensure our systems align with business goals and customer needs
- Leverage your background in marketplace or ride-hailing technologies to drive innovation and scalability within the team
- Guide the team in setting and achieving clear goals, ensuring high-quality feature development and system reliability
- Implement efficient workflows and agile methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Make decisive and informed decisions, balancing quality, timelines, and business requirements
- Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team, guiding them to solve problems proactively and collaboratively
- Encourage professional growth, providing constructive feedback and development opportunities for team members
- Address challenges within the team confidently, including handling difficult situations and making tough decisions when necessary
- Foster a collaborative and communicative team culture, ensuring alignment across functions and proactive problem-solving
Our take
Business transport for frequent travellers can be a difficult process. The pain of booking systems, invoicing, and inconsistent quality of services are issues travellers regularly face, hindering business operations and causing unnecessary delays. Chauffeurs also experience empty cars due to non-optimised booking processes.
Blacklane aims at the higher end of the market, targeting corporate workers, executives and those who have the means to pay extra for higher levels of service when they travel. Through a booking system available on the company's website and in-app, Blacklane provides a reliable high-end service with inclusive pricing and on-call customer support. Blacklane also works for chauffeurs, filling empty seats to optimise services.
The company is also environmentally conscious, operating as a carbon-neutral company since 2017. The company offers electric vehicle rides in more than 30 of its 300 operational cities, and by 2025, aims for 75 percent of all rides to be in EVs. With substantial funding from Mercedes Benz in 2022, it seems set to meet these objectives.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$62.4m
SERIES G
Mar 2021
$26m
LATE VC
Total funding: $165.7m
Company benefits
- Personal development plan & budget for online courses, conferences, and books
- Monthly 1:1 feedback chats with our C-level team members
- Employee stock option plan
- Flexible working hours & hybrid remote model
- Friday evening drinks at the office & twice-a-year department events
Company values
- Be reliable: Provide a service that customers can rely on. Be someone your colleagues can count on. Work only with reliable chauffeurs that we trust. Earn trust and keep it
- Break new ground: Look for ways to improve. Encourage curiosity. Learn quickly from mistakes and grow from the experience. Aim to be better every day. Seek to create an amazing service, be the industry leader, and exceed guests’ expectations.
- Care: Care about our guests. Care about our crew of chauffeurs and each other. Care about making our product and service exceptional. Care about our community and how we give back
- Go the extra mile: Look beyond what is required. Be proactive to go beyond guests’ expectations. If you see that something could be better, take the initiative to improve it.
- Act with integrity: Act in a fair and honest manner. Strive to always do the right thing for our guests, chauffeurs, and each other. Treat everyone with the same high level of respect — just as you would like to be treated
Company HQ
Schöneberg, Berlin, BE
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Leadership
Dr. Jens Wohltorf
(CEO)A director of the competence center next generation services for DAI-Labor and principal leader at the Boston Consulting Group.
Frank Steuer
(Member of the Board)CTO at SemperLink and co-founder and CTO at Firstfon Ltd.
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