Senior Engineering Manager, sofatutor
€75-95k
Online tutor platform
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Online tutor platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
€75-95k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To support young people throughout the world with the best learning content – on a unique platform.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading 5+ engineers, including full people leadership responsibility
- A track record of hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers – coaching, feedback cycles, growth frameworks
- Solid hands-on experience in larger web development projects; Ruby on Rails and/or JavaScript experience is a plus
- Enough technical depth to lead architecture discussions and hold your own on code quality
- Very good understanding of software development processes, testing, deployment, and modern delivery culture
- Genuine enthusiasm for AI in engineering and the pragmatism to make it work in practice
What the job involves
- You'll lead the engineering team at the heart of sofatutor's core product – a learning platform used by over a million students, parents, and teachers across the German-speaking market
- This is a hands-on leadership role inside a cross-functional unit: you work directly with a Senior Product Lead, Content Leads, and a Staff Engineer, owning both the people and the delivery
- Your team: 10 full-stack engineers (frontend, backend, one mobile)
- Your context: a product that matters, a strong and experienced leadership group, and real room to shape how engineering works here
- Own the structure, leadership, and further development of the Engineers in the team, with a clear focus on outcomes, quality, and sustainable delivery
- You coach Engineers (technically & personally), set up growth plans, and establish effective feedback and performance routines
- You strengthen a collaborative, motivating team culture with ownership, psychological safety, and a high-quality orientation
- You work closely with Product, Design, Content, and Technical Leaders on roadmap, prioritization, and implementation—and translate goals into realistic plans
- You continuously refine workflows, agile rituals, and quality standards (e.g., DoR/DoD, release processes, incident learnings)
- You ensure that technical decisions, dependencies, and risks are transparent—and actively steer towards solutions
- You have experience in hiring, designing onboarding processes, and the professional development of Software Engineers
- You build structures that enable scaling (e.g., role/leveling clarity, clear responsibilities, knowledge management)
- Help your team adopt AI responsibly: the right tools, at the right stage of the development cycle, with clear ownership of what gets shipped
- 40h/week
Our take
All students flourish when they can learn at their own pace, but this can be difficult to achieve in a traditional classroom. This is what sofatutor is setting out to address with its online tuition platform.
The company offers students at school and university one-on-one online learning support in 15 subjects, ranging from Mathematics to Latin. The main draw for students is the platform's flexibility and its unique 12 minute lesson format. Compared to traditional private tuition, sofatutor is faster, more convenient and cheaper.
In the fiercely competitive online tuition space, sofatutor finds an edge over rivals such as Tutorfair and MyTutor with its innovative learning materials, interface and class formats. Its strong product has certainly cemented sofatutor in the space, as it looks to further grow its team and operations into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2018
$3.6m
LATE VC
Aug 2014
$4.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $7.7m
Company benefits
- Corporate benefits: Shopping platform with attractive offers from all areas of lie
- Future bens: Discounts for sustainable and future-oriented brands
- Mindsurance: Tools to strengthen mental health
- BVG: Berlin public transport or "Deutschlandticket" at a discounted price
- Swapfiets: Bicycle subscription for many German cities
- Fitness: Choose between FitX, Fitness First, or Urban Sports Club
Company HQ
Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Stephen Bayer
(Founder & MD)Is a founding member and chair of Edtech Founders Club. Is also an Initiator at Art Market 101 and iddb.school, a digital education initiative.
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