Engineering Manager – Strategic Fleet Planning (m/f/d)
HybridLisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Job Summary
Own delivery of Strategic Fleet Planning end-to-end: partner with Product, Data Science, and Business stakeholders to turn fleet strategy into shipped software that changes how SIXT buys and deploys vehicles. Lead and grow a colocated engineering team in Portugal, pushing their agentic and full-stack practice forward by coaching engineers on technical maturity and empowering them to own technical decisions. Pick up a rotating portfolio of other high-impact engineering work across SIXT's tech stack as priorities shift, helping decide what's next without waiting to be told. Operate as a real product partner: challenge low-value asks, co-own the backlog, and know the business impact of the last three things your team shipped. Deliver even when roadmaps shift under you, never hiding behind the line between IT and the business.
Required Qualifications
- Experience building, leading, and growing software engineering teams
- Proven track record of shipping decision-support, planning, or optimization systems beyond standard CRUD applications
- Hands-on production experience in Java or Golang on AWS
- Comfort with Postgres and event-driven systems like Kafka
- Ability to navigate legacy PHP/Oracle environments when needed
- Experience running your own AI-assisted engineering workflow
- Ability to iterate on AI-assisted engineering workflows actively
- Ability to assess agent-generated output for genuine engineering judgment
- Experience successfully pushing backend-minded engineers toward full-stack ownership
- Ability to know what it takes to get engineers comfortable owning UI
- Ability to flex communication style fluently — precise and technical with engineers, sharp and business-focused with stakeholders who think in P&L
- Ability to build trust with distributed or remote stakeholders across time zones
- Ability to treat feedback — given or received — as fuel, not friction
- Experience leading and growing a colocated engineering team in Portugal
- Experience pushing agentic and full-stack practice forward
- Experience coaching engineers on the technical and AI-maturity curve
- Experience empowering engineers to own technical decisions
- Experience holding teams to outcomes, not ticket count or how much code an agent produced
- Experience partnering on shared projects and owning cross-cutting initiatives — AI adoption, security — as a group, not a solo assignment
- Experience operating as a real product partner
- Experience challenging low-value asks
- Experience co-owning the backlog
- Experience knowing the business impact of the last three things your team shipped
- Experience delivering even when roadmaps shift under you
- Experience not hiding behind the line between IT and the business
- Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Business stakeholders to turn fleet strategy into shipped software
- Experience working daily alongside Product, Data Science, and fellow engineering teams
- Experience working inside SIXT's Revenue Management organization
Desired Qualifications
- Experience shipping decision-support, planning, or optimization systems beyond standard CRUD applications (ideally)
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