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Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

voize - Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-20

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Voize is a YCombinator-funded healthtech company revolutionizing healthcare documentation through AI. Nurses use the voize app to speak their documentation into their smartphones, and the AI automatically generates correct entries—saving each nurse an average of 39 minutes per day while improving documentation quality. The company is already deployed at over 600 senior care homes and has grown 100% in the last 90 days, with customers saving over 3.5 million hours annually. As Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performing engineering team building products that thousands of care professionals rely on daily. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with a strong software engineering background—ideally a former Tech Lead or Staff/Senior Engineer who has made the transition into people management while staying deeply technical. Your responsibilities include: - Leading, hiring, and developing a high-performing engineering team through meaningful 1:1s, clear feedback, and growth paths - Staying hands-on in technical design, participating in architecture discussions, reviewing code and designs, and co-owning technical decisions - Fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture where engineers feel valued, empowered, and psychologically safe - Aligning technical direction with product and company strategy, working closely with Product and leadership - Ensuring high-quality, scalable, and reliable software delivery through best practices in testing, architecture, and code quality - Driving execution and maintaining momentum through planning, unblocking the team, and proactive risk management - Improving engineering processes, developer experience, tooling, and CI/CD workflows - Collaborating across ML, Product, Data, and GTM teams to align on technical and business needs The role is based in Berlin with hybrid flexibility and offers stock options, 30 days vacation plus birthday off, flexible working hours, learning platform access, Germany Ticket, Urban Sports Club membership, and the opportunity to make real impact in healthcare. REQUIREMENTS: - Strong software engineering background with proven experience building and shipping production systems, ideally as a Tech Lead or Staff/Senior Engineer - Hands-on technical capability: comfortable in deep technical discussions, challenging architecture, and keeping current with modern tooling - Proven people leadership experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role, with track record of hiring, coaching, giving tough feedback, and growing engineers - Strong track record building high-performing engineering teams - High energy, drive, and ownership; thrives in ambiguity and brings momentum - Experience in fast-moving scale-ups: moves quickly, prioritizes ruthlessly, comfortable with change - Experience building reliable, high-quality production systems with strong engineering practices (backend experience a plus; Kotlin and mobile a bonus) - Ability to drive technical strategy and connect it to business and product goals - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build strong cross-team relationships - Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, ML, CS, GTM) - Fluent in English (C1 level); German is a plus

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