Engineering Manager, Traffic Event Detection

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional teams in the development of the Traffic Events Detection product

• Oversee daily team operations, project management, and sprint planning

• Execute intricate, high-impact projects while providing technical guidance and mentorship

• Implement best practices for on-call operations

• Create features that cater to both internal and external customer requirements

• Recruit, retain, mentor, and nurture team members

• Align objectives of the company, product, and team with stakeholders

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape long-term business strategies

• Set, monitor, and refine operational metrics

• Define and advocate for engineering best practices across Mapbox

• Encourage collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decision-making

• Develop systems utilizing high-scale backend services, data pipelines, and AI Agentic workflows to detect, validate, and provide live road updates

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical engineering experience

• Over 5 years of experience in people management

• Proven experience managing remote engineering teams and achieving product and business results

• Extensive knowledge and experience in creating scalable web services and data pipelines in AWS

• Familiarity with monitoring, metrics, triage, customer issue resolution, continuous improvement, interfaces, documentation, test coverage, and code reviews

• Experience leading cross-functional teams consisting of 5 or more individuals

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Aptitude for hiring, retaining, mentoring, and developing a diverse engineering workforce

• Capability to guide product strategy and execution

• Customer-oriented mindset

• Legally authorized to work in the country of application

🏝️ Benefits

• Supportive health care coverage

• Parental leave provisions

• Flexibility to accommodate personal needs

• Educational and learning opportunities

• Hybrid and remote work options

• Tailored private health, dental, and income protection plans aligned with regional statutory benefits

• Family care policies including maternity and paternity leave

• Contributions to a Lifestyle Spending Account for health, wellness, and personal development

• Mental health support available for employees and their dependents

• Paid time off, company holidays, and generous absence policies

• Dedicated paid time for volunteering in addition to standard PTO