Engineering Manager - Backend (d/f/m)

Why us?

We believe that AI has the potential to revolutionize how cancer and other complex diseases are diagnosed and treated. Its impact, however, depends on high-quality data and a rigorous, transparent approach to model development. Our role is to make that possible.
Aignostics is a spin-off from one of Europe’s largest and most prestigious university hospitals (Charité), with employees in Berlin and New York. We have received over $50M in funding from leading investors and are a growing team of over 100 interdisciplinary professionals. We work with academic partners as well as leading global life sciences companies.
You will lead the Public API & Integrations team in our Backend Department, owning the APIs, user management, and workload scheduling systems that power our core B2B platform. As a hands-on Engineering Manager, you grow a high-performing team while ensuring the operational excellence and reliability that our enterprise customers in healthcare depend on.
This is a unique opportunity to join a fun, diverse, and growing team of 100+ software engineers, applied scientists, biologists, and pathologists to shape the next generation of cancer treatments. You will be part of a driven community that works in an agile, supportive, and interdisciplinary research environment where your results make a difference to patients. In our established startup, you have the opportunity to grow personally and technically, take on significant responsibilities, and benefit from a dynamic work environment.
At Aignostics, we believe that fighting cancer is a job for people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures. We value and celebrate diversity and inclusion and are committed to offering equal employment and promotion opportunities for all applicants and employees.

Where your expertise is needed

1. Effective stakeholder collaboration – Build trusting partnerships with product managers and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Navigate competing priorities and drive consensus across departments.
2. Planning and Delivery – Define quarterly and longer-term roadmaps that balance product goals while strengthening technical qualities. Drive execution of your team\’s roadmap ensuring on-time delivery and unblocking dependent teams.
3. Develop a high-performance team – Recruit top backend engineers and elevate team performance through coaching and development plans. Foster excellence through high standards in code reviews, doc writing, and well-grounded technical decisions.
4. Hands-on engineering – Review critical PRs to earn trust from engineers and peers while helping them grow. Write production code when needed to accelerate delivery, while maintaining focus on team enablement.
5. Ensure Operational Excellence – Own SLAs for B2B APIs and backing systems. Drive incident response and post-mortems to prevent recurring issues while continuously raising the bar within your team.

What we are looking for

• 7+ years of backend/data engineering experience – Deep hands-on expertise in Python, API design, and building distributed systems. Proven ability to make sound architectural decisions and guide technical choices that scale.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams – Track record of building and managing high-performing teams. Experience with hiring, performance management, and developing engineers\‘ careers.
• Strong engineering practices – Expert knowledge of agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and code review processes. Champion of testing, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Partnership and communication skills – Proven ability to collaborate with product managers and present to stakeholders from engineers to non-technical collaborators. Experience translating business requirements into technical roadmaps and resource plans.
• Cloud and distributed systems expertise – Hands-on experience with GCP or AWS, building scalable APIs, and data management systems. Strong focus on system reliability, security, and performance optimization.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Ideally, you also have:

• Developed software in a regulated environment applying a Quality Management System
• Executive communication skills – fluency presenting complex concepts to audiences from engineering teams to C-suite

Our offer

• Join a purpose-driven start up: We are working collectively to fight cancer and improve patient outcomes. Come help us make a difference!
• Cutting-edge AI research and development, with involvement of Charité, TU Berlin and our other partners
• Work with a welcoming, diverse and highly international team of colleagues
• Opportunity to take responsibility and grow your role within the startup
• Expand your skills by benefiting from our Learning & Development yearly budget of 1,000€ (plus 2 L&D days), language classes and internal development programs
• Mentoring program, you’ll learn from great experts
• Flexible working hours and teleworking policy
• Enjoy your well-deserved time off within our 30 paid vacations days per year
• We are family & pet friendly and support flexible parental leave options
• Pick a subsidized membership of your choice among public transport, sports and well-being
• Enjoy our social gatherings, lunches, and off-site events for a fun and inclusive work environment
• Optional company pension scheme