Engineering Manager – Commerce Core (m/f/d)

You’re passionate about building robust, scalable commerce products and believe great platforms are created by empowered teams with strong technical ownership. You think in systems, care deeply about product quality, and love helping engineers grow while delivering meaningful impact for customers, partners, and the open-source community. Shopware is an international, leading open commerce platform for ambitious companies in digital commerce. With an API-first approach, maximum flexibility, and a strong community, we create future-oriented e-commerce solutions. Our 450 employees across Europe share a passion for innovation, openness, and team spirit. The Commerce Core unit builds and maintains the open-source Shopware eCommerce platform at the heart of our product. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of the teams within Commerce Core. In this role, you’ll combine people leadership, technical guidance, and product collaboration to help your team deliver high-quality platform capabilities, maintain core commerce functionality, and continuously improve the foundations that thousands of merchants, developers, and partners rely on every day. This position can be filled on-site, hybrid, but also full-remote within Germany or specific European countries where we are registered. Your work location will be agreed upon in advance and forms the basis of your employment contract. These are your tasks: Team Leadership & Ownership You lead, coach, and support a software engineering team within the Commerce Core unit. You foster an open, trust-based, and feedback-driven team culture where engineers can do their best work. You work closely with Product Management to shape your team’s roadmap in alignment with Shopware’s product and platform strategy. You help your team balance product delivery, technical quality, maintenance, and long-term platform evolution. You collaborate closely with other teams in Shopware including but not limited to other Commerce Core teams, Cloud teams, QA, Design, DevRel, and Partner-facing teams. Product & Platform Delivery You take ownership of your team’s delivery outcomes and ensure reliable execution of roadmap initiatives. You help maintain and evolve key areas of the Shopware platform, ensuring they remain scalable, extensible, and robust. You guide technical decision-making and support engineers in finding pragmatic, sustainable solutions. You contribute hands-on where needed while enabling your team to take strong ownership of implementation and quality. You ensure that platform changes are built with merchants, partners, extension developers, and long-term maintainability in mind. Technical Excellence & Engineering Practices You drive continuous improvement in architecture, code quality, testing standards, and operational reliability. You help reduce technical debt and ensure your team contributes to a stable and future-ready commerce platform. You support strong engineering practices around planning, delivery, reviews, documentation, observability, and incident learning. You act as a sparring partner for engineers and help translate complex technical topics into clear decisions and priorities. You promote consistency and collaboration across teams working on shared platform capabilities. People Development & Collaboration You mentor engineers, support career growth, and provide regular feedback through 1:1s and development conversations. You help the team grow through hiring, onboarding, capability building, and clear role expectations. You create an environment where ownership, accountability, and collaboration are actively encouraged. You work with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and the wider Shopware ecosystem to align priorities and manage dependencies. You represent your team’s work clearly and transparently across the Commerce Core unit. Expected Impact First 12 Months You build a clear understanding of your team’s domain, responsibilities, and current