Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Engineering Lead (w/m/d)

About VALUE AG

VALUE AG is Germany's largest independent full-service provider in the real estate valuation industry. With our business units, we cover the entire value chain of real estate valuations for all asset classes and support our clients as a competent partner. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hypoport SE, a network of technology service providers in the FinTech, PropTech, and InsurTech sectors.

We invite you to help shape our company and write your own VALUE story with us. Transformation, future orientation, and dynamism are as much a part of our DNA as trust and appreciation.

Do you love good software architecture? So do we. As an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Engineering Lead (w/m/d), you can expect an environment where technical excellence, stable platforms, and modern engineering standards make the difference. You will set the technical course, make clear architectural decisions, and elevate our engineering mindset to the next level – with pragmatism, clarity, and genuine enjoyment of good software.

Work Location: Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Lübeck, or remote throughout Germany – you decide where you work best.

What You Will Work On - Your Responsibilities:

Architecture & Modernization

• Concept, development, and scaling of our core systems (C#/.NET, MS SQL) towards resilient, containerized services on Linux/Kubernetes.
• Targeted reduction of internal technical complexity and strengthening of stability, resilience, and maintainability to increase long-term productivity.
• Making well-founded architectural and platform decisions and further developing technical standards (modularization, interfaces, security, Infrastructure as Code).
• Early integration of non-functional requirements such as observability, performance, scalability, security, and deployment in scoping.

Software Delivery

• Technical support for Product Managers in discovery and prioritization processes, and clear explanation of complex technical contexts.
• Expansion and optimization of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) and establishment of Clean Code, code reviews, and automated tests (unit & system tests) with a clear Shift-Left mindset.
• Increasing development speed (Time-to-Market) through measurably shorter development cycles, more frequent and reliable deployments – with the goal of being able to release productively at any time.
• Sustainable quality improvement in software development, measured, among other things, by how rarely productive features need to be rolled back or improved.
• Establishment of AI/LLM-supported development in everyday engineering (e.g., Copilot-assisted coding, test generation, knowledge building) to create real added value in the team.

Documentation & Knowledge Building

• Active knowledge building instead of siloed knowledge: Taking responsibility for ensuring that knowledge is accessible team-wide and not tied to individuals.
• Building structured, understandable, and up-to-date process and system documentation that makes relevant architectures, decisions, and processes transparent.
• Development and establishment of practical best practice guides, technical standards, and guidelines with a focus on quality and efficiency.

Enablement & Leadership

• Disciplinary leadership and coaching of developers in the areas of architecture, clean code, systems thinking, and container and deployment responsibility.
• Empowering the team to make independent decisions within clear guardrails; in case of doubt, you make the decision.
• Fast and effective onboarding of new team members through clear structures, good documentation, and systematic knowledge transfer.
• Promoting continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and constructive communication. We lead with empathy.
• Strengthening ownership for stability and production operations.

What You Bring - Your Profile:

Innovation & Technological Foresight

• Experience in integrating new technologies and digital solutions to strengthen processes and competitiveness.
• Sound understanding of the application possibilities and limitations of AI in a corporate context.
• Experience in AI/LLM-supported development and ideally in integrating AI-based features.

Sound Development Expertise

• Several years of experience in C#/.NET or comparable programming languages, as well as in the technical leadership of developers.
• Confident handling of scalable database systems (MS SQL, PostgreSQL) and modern backend architectures (modular services).
• Ideally, experience with Angular (v15+) and RabbitMQ.
• Basic openness to new technologies.

Architecture, Platform & Infrastructure as Code

• Practical experience with Docker/Kubernetes, fully automated deployments, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Sound knowledge in cutting, scaling, and orchestrating services.

Delivery Excellence & Quality Orientation

• Routine in handling Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automated tests (unit & system tests).
• High quality standards without a quick-fix mentality – with pragmatism and a holistic product understanding.

Product & Business Understanding

• Product-oriented approach and ability to translate discovery results into clear, structured technical solutions.
• Communicating complex technical issues in an audience-appropriate manner – including to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize requirements structurally and comprehensibly based on (business) impact and effort.

Leadership Skills & Language

• Open, clear, and inspiring leadership – especially during change phases.
• English at least C1 (team), German at least B2 (stakeholders).

What We Offer You:

• Feelgood: Events such as team events, summer parties, and regular offsites strengthen team cohesion and ensure cross-location exchange.
• Office Benefits: Our offices feature height-adjustable desks, stability balls, free drinks & snacks, and much more. You can even bring your dog.
• Quality Time: We offer 30 vacation days per year for our full-time employees. We also have internal special leave policies and the option for flexible vacation. Additionally, we enable mobile working according to our policy.
• Be a Part of Us - From Day 1: Look forward to comprehensive onboarding on various topics, a welcome event, and an open-minded team. You will be supported by a buddy during your onboarding period.
• On Top: You benefit from Hypoport advantages, e.g., discounts in 300 online shops, prescription safety glasses, special conditions for a JobRad (company bike scheme), and much more.

Have We Sparked Your Interest?

We look forward to receiving your comprehensive application documents, including your earliest possible start date and salary expectations.

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion or belief, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.

Feel free to apply online, and if you have any questions, you can contact Laura.

Laura Grande

Talent Acquisition Partner for the Hypoport Network

Hypoport hub SE www.hypoport.de