Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Herogen (Tech Foundations)

We are on the lookout for a Senior Manager Engineering (Herogen - Tech Foundation) to join the Herogen team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences and build the Future of Software Delivery.

As a member of the Tech Foundation Team youll support Delivery Heros rapid innovation and growth. Youll work on foundational systems that enable faster feature development security and reliability across our global engineering community. Every enhancement you make will contribute to our teams ability to build scale and deliver quality featuresultimately impacting millions of users worldwide.

The Herogen team is building and scaling Delivery Heros fully autonomous software delivery agent designed to independently solve engineering tickets without human intervention. Launched in early 2026 the platform rapidly exceeded its initial targets and is now focused on expanding its impact across the organization. As part of the Agentic Engineering initiative the team is driving one of the most disruptive advancements in software development by enabling AI-driven engineering at scale. This role will focus on increasing the complexity quality and volume of work Herogen can autonomously deliver directly contributing to Delivery Heros innovation strategy and the goal of having 20% of merged pull requests generated autonomously by 2026.

What you will do

• Scale User Base and Adoption: Implement native integration with brand environments enforce conventions and build features like co-authoring to allow Herogen to be invoked on human-generated pull requests.

• Drive Workflow Integration: Integrate Herogen with Slack and other core engineering workflow tools to ease execution triggering and accelerate platform usage.

• Increase Ticket Scope: Expand Herogens capabilities to handle a wider array of complex tasks including operations spanning several repositories.

• Expand Agent Skills: Advance specialized agent capabilities utilizing tools such as Open Application Model (OAM) and Open Telemetry.

• Improve Code Quality: Enhance the Agent Council with specialized capabilities (e.g. reliability) and integrate multiple development sources to improve the quality of generated code building adoption and system trust.

• Optimize Environments: Provide a robust build environment and runtime support across backend mobile and web to allow testing code fully while building sophisticated Context Scrapers for sources like Slack and GitHub to provide deep architectural context.

Qualifications :

• High-Performance Engineering Leadership: A proven senior leadership track record with 5 years of experience leading and nurturing engineering teams within a fast-paced high-innovation environment.

• Strategic Stakeholder Management & Product Integration: A robust product-oriented mindset to partner closely with product counterparts while championing technical excellence paired with the ability to navigate and influence senior organizational stakeholders.

• High-Bar Quality Engineering & Agentic Design: Deep commitment to software quality and reliability with hands-on experience implementing quality gates (e.g. Codacy) alongside deep expertise in building scaling and hardening autonomous or semi-autonomous software agents.

• System Integration & Pipeline Design: Proven experience integrating complex development tools across decentralized environments and developing data ingestion/processing pipelines to provide agents with architectural context.

• Scalability & Performance Mindset: A proactive engineering focus on optimizing performance removing unexpected dependencies or obstacles and scaling overall system capacity to dramatically increase autonomous pull request volumes.

• Ownership & Leadership: A self-driven approach to owning a complex autonomous systemcontinually driving improvements in code intelligence while thriving on pushing the boundaries of what automated software delivery can achieve.

Additional Information :

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after happy and healthy is always on the menu. Because if youre in good shape then were in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 Educational Budget Language Courses Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups Meditation Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it well help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan Sabbatical Bank  Public Transportation Ticket Discount Life & Accident Insurance Corporate Pension Plan

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers Food Vouchers Corporate Discounts. Courses.

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Ready to join our team If youre excited to grow collaborate and be part of the worlds leading delivery platform wed love to hear from you. Apply today!

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time