QUICK FACTS:

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LOCATION: Munich, Germany - hybrid

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OUR TECH STACK: ”Classic” Software Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Terraform ”Modern” AI Stack: Leading LLM models, observability/evaluation tooling (Langsmith), graph RAG & vector databases

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EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time

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START DATE: asap

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🚀 What WE do at Tendos

We are Tendos, a Munich-based startup, offering agentic workforce for white-collar jobs in construction. Our AI-first solution streamlines and automates tendering and quoting related workflows in the construction industry. Tendos is freeing inside sales teams from tedious manual tasks while unlocking new revenue potential. Take the unique opportunity and join one of the hottest early-stage start-ups to redefine workflows with AI in the biggest industry in the world!

🚀 The role

This is the first engineering management role at Tendos. You would lead the whole engineering team - today it reports directly to a founder. You report to our CTO and take over people management and delivery. The team builds with coding agents every day and ships 100+ releases a week. It is a high-functioning team: you are here to make a strong team stronger, not to turn one around.

🥇 What YOU will do at Tendos

• Hold the team. You run the engineering meetings, you know where things stand, and you are genuinely close to every engineer.
• Grow each engineer — technically and in their career. A specific plan per person that they have bought into, including for engineers who are technically deeper than you are.
• Carry real weight in hiring. Define the missing profile, build the brief, run the process and make the call - including the no-hire call on someone who looks strong on paper.
• Establish how an AI-first engineering team works. Coding agents have moved the bottleneck from writing code to review, testing and planning. You build the practices that fit that: where human review is needed, how we keep quality at 100+ releases a week, and how we plan when building is cheap. Lightweight, and designed with the team.
• Make commitments predictable. Slips on customer work get flagged weeks ahead with options, rather than discovered at the deadline.
• Stay in the work. You do not need to write production code daily, but you need to be in it often enough to hold a first-hand opinion about it.

💪🏼 What we are looking for

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our engineering team through its next phase. You will shape how the team grows and works as we build an agentic workforce for our customers' white-collar work in construction.

• Five to seven years in software, at least two of them managing engineers at a SaaS product company.
• You have managed engineers through a period of growth - and can say what broke. What stopped working at what size, and the smallest thing you did about it.