Engineering Manager Scheduling Team (x/f/m)

Set a new pulse for healthcare!We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Scheduling team in Berlin.Your mission will be to give practitioners their day back: reclaiming the admin time they spend creating and managing appointments, so care teams can focus on what matters. You will work in a feature team developing scheduling infrastructure and booking experiences, contributing directly to a platform that books billions of appointments a year for health professionals and patients across Europe.Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.What you'll doYour responsibilities include but are not limited to:Lead a team of 6 to 7 engineers of mixed seniority, owning delivery, quality and production health end to end — keeping engagement high and standards higherTogether with your product partner, define the mission and vision for your team and build a roadmap you can defend to stakeholdersTake part in architecture reviews and help shape the technical direction of the Scheduling stream, including the migration of core scheduling capabilities from the monolith into purpose-built servicesSet and uphold the security, reliability, performance and scalability standards required to remain the most trusted e-health SaaS in EuropePartner with Talent and People teams to recruit, develop and retain engineers through career conversations and feedback they can act onEmbed AI-assisted engineering into how your team works day to day, with a clear and honest view of where it helps and where it does notContinuously improve how the team operates — planning, on-call, bug backlog, incident follow-up — so the team spends its energy on what moves the needleWho you areBefore you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to <apply.You>'ll be a great fit if you:Have at least 6 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of engineering management experience, including leading a team of 5+ engineers through delivery, hiring and growthAre credible with senior backend engineers — distributed systems, data modelling, latency and throughput are conversations you can hold and challenge; you stay close enough to the code to review a pull request, without needing to be the one writing itHave hands-on experience modernising a large legacy system, ideally extracting services from a monolith, and know how to keep a team delivering while the ground movesAre an effective communicator who can translate company goals into team objectives, and who says the uncomfortable thing early rather than lateThink critically and objectively, with a solution-oriented approach that brings people with youIt would be fantastic if you:Have worked in a regulated industry such as healthcare or fintech, where privacy and data protection shape design decisionsHave navigated hyper-growth environments and understand the trade-offs they force on architecture and team organisationHave formed a considered view on AI coding assistants — their real benefits and their real shortcomingsLife at Doctolib TechOur solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.Our stack in this product area is Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React in the monolith, Kotlin for new services, with Postgres, Redis and Kafka underneath.We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.What we offerA Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policyCompany health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner AllianzCompany pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much moreEnrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowthFree mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.careSubsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports ClubA flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based modeAlongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefitFor caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological supportRelocation support in case of international mobilityAccess to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated trainingOur interview processRecruiter InterviewSystem Design InterviewBehavioral InterviewEngineering Manager CaseAt least one reference checkWe want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent. Learn more about our hiring process on our candidate experience page.Job detailsPermanent positionRuby on Rails, TypeScript, KotlinFull-timeLocation: BerlinHybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)Start date: as soon as possibleWe welcome everyoneAt Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or <disability.To> ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g., pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of!Your data privacyAll information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here: Germany | France | Italy | Netherlands. Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)<doctolib.com> for inquiries or to exercise your rights.