Senior Engineering Manager, Driving Software
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Director or Senior Engineering Manager at Vay leading teams for core remote driving software. Overseeing platform delivery and hardware evaluation for driverless fleet technology.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and scale the Platform and Media engineering teams, owning the delivery of core real time platform and media systems
- Define and drive modern software engineering practices, ensuring high quality, reliability, and predictable delivery
- Partner with technical leads to shape roadmaps, priorities, and long term technical direction
- Review designs and guide architectural decisions for performance and safety critical systems
- Build, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, feedback, and career growth
- Own hiring for your teams in close collaboration with Talent
- Stay hands on where it adds the most value, contributing up to 25% of the time
- Collaborate closely with product, program, and cross functional teams to drive alignment and execution
Requirements:
- You have led multiple high performing engineering teams of 5 to 10 engineers, with a proven track record of scaling and developing teams
- You are passionate about improving engineering productivity and enabling other teams across the organisation
- You bring strong proficiency in C++ and Linux, with experience working close to the system in performance critical environments
- You have worked on embedded or real time systems where reliability, latency, and resource constraints are critical to success
- You are a clear and effective communicator, comfortable aligning stakeholders and driving decisions across teams and levels
- You operate with a high sense of urgency and ownership in fast moving environments
- Nice to have: Experience working with Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Nice to have: Experience with hardware or compute platform evaluation and selection
Benefits:
- ESOP stock options: A stake in Vay’s future - not just a salary
- Unlimited Paid Vacation Days
- Subsidised Deutschland ticket (Berlin)
- Subsidised Urban Sports Club or FitX Membership
- All Vay team members receive 30% off their Vay rides
- Exclusive external discounts
- €350 Home office budget
- Relocation financial assistance when relocating to Berlin
- Fully funded German Lessons
- Regular team events throughout the year




















