Engineering Manager at TOPdesk Kaiserslautern leads one or two teams with a defined technical mission (front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform), providing both people and technical direction and owning what the teams ship. You set team-level technical direction within architectural guardrails, grow engineers into stronger practitioners, and own delivery and operational outcomes—creating the conditions for senior and staff engineers to provide technical leadership too. You operate agents yourself and lead our AI-native SDLC from the front. You report to your domain's senior engineering leader. The team sits within an approximately 170-strong engineering organisation across Delft, Budapest, and Kaiserslautern. What you’ll do: provide technical direction, set standards for your domain, and make key technical decisions while upholding quality, security, and stability; grow people by coaching and developing engineers and making tough talent decisions; own the delivery and the bar by owning roadmaps, delivery, and operational outcomes, while keeping review burden sustainable and aligning agent autonomy to risk; contribute to shared libraries of subagents, evals, and patterns; operate agents yourself and build subagents and evals your team reuses. Technical environment includes Claude Code as the primary agentic engineering environment, with engineers remaining accountable for problem framing, architecture, acceptance criteria, security, verification, and production outcomes. Your domain may be front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform; stack includes legacy Ja

Engineering Manager at TOPdesk Kaiserslautern leads one or two teams with a defined technical mission (front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform), providing both people and technical direction and owning what the teams ship. You set team-level technical direction within architectural guardrails, grow engineers into stronger practitioners, and own delivery and operational outcomes—creating the conditions for senior and staff engineers to provide technical leadership too. You operate agents yourself and lead our AI-native SDLC from the front. You report to your domain's senior engineering leader. The team sits within an approximately 170-strong engineering organisation across Delft, Budapest, and Kaiserslautern. What you’ll do: provide technical direction, set standards for your domain, and make key technical decisions while upholding quality, security, and stability; grow people by coaching and developing engineers and making tough talent decisions; own the delivery and the bar by owning roadmaps, delivery, and operational outcomes, while keeping review burden sustainable and aligning agent autonomy to risk; contribute to shared libraries of subagents, evals, and patterns; operate agents yourself and build subagents and evals your team reuses. Technical environment includes Claude Code as the primary agentic engineering environment, with engineers remaining accountable for problem framing, architecture, acceptance criteria, security, verification, and production outcomes. Your domain may be front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform; stack includes legacy Ja