<div class="content-intro"><p>Founded in 2017, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/refurbed-com">refurbed</a> is Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in <strong>23 European countries</strong> and having surpassed <strong>€2Bn in GMV</strong> — all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company and have been recognised as a <strong>Top DACH Employer </strong>by <strong>Kununu</strong> for three consecutive years.</p><p>Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.</p><p>If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here. We’re a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we’re remote-first).</p></div><p>We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (f/m/x) to lead our <strong>Platform</strong><strong>and</strong><strong>Data Engineering</strong> teams. These are supporting teams, their mission is to multiply the effectiveness of every product squad at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/refurbed-com">refurbed</a> by providing reliable infrastructure, shared services, clean data, and developer tooling. You will own the technical foundation that product teams build on, and ensure it is stable, scalable, and easy to work with.</p><p>Our platform technology stack includes Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ on the backend, with infrastructure running on Google Cloud Platform provisioned with Terraform, and orchestrated with Kubernetes. Our data platform is built with Python on top of BigQuery.</p><h3>WHO YOU ARE:</h3><h3>Leadership</h3><ul><li>You are a senior, trusted engineering leader with 8+ years of experience managing engineers in platform, infrastructure, or data teams</li><li>You have led teams where the customer is internal, you understand what it means to provide a service to other engineers and how to measure success in that context</li><li>You have a proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent, as well as manage performance with clarity and empathy</li><li>You lead with low ego, openness, and a belief in autonomy and empowerment, where engineers take ownership and collaborate effectively</li><li>You partner with product managers and engineering leaders to evolve Platform and Data Engineering as products</li><li>You establish feedback loops and metrics to understand developer experience, delivery friction, and engineering effectiveness, using those insights to guide investments</li></ul><h3>Technical experience</h3><ul><li>You have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, BigQuery), but AWS or Azure also relevant</li><li>You have experience designing and operating K