Engineering Manager: Lead SaaS API & Modern Auth Platform

At ablefy, we believe that passion can turn into a career for anyone! With our cloud-based SaaS platform solution, ablefy.io, we offer an easy and efficient way for everyone to create and sell digital products and online courses. More than 70,000 entrepreneurs have already placed their trust in our expertise!

Our story began in 2015, and for the first five years, we grew organically, becoming a profitable company with a team of around 60 employees. Then, in September 2021, we raised $38 million in series A funding led by Target Global, with participation from Partech Ventures and Avid Ventures. Since then, we've doubled in size!

Since then, our company size, products, features, and services have doubled and we have become Germany's No. 1 platform for coaches, consultants, speakers, and service providers. We continue to grow to this day – that's why we're looking for you.

Our mission; to build software that empowers everyone to start, run and grow a successful digital business - borderless, is supported by our high performance principles that are crucial to our success:

• Radical Collaboration
• Constructive confrontation
• Evolving expertise
• Empathetic leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

At ablefy, we embrace our differences, as they are our greatest strength. We recognize that everyone has a unique perspective based on their experiences, identities, and thought processes, and we strive to create an inclusive environment for all. Discrimination based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other aspect that makes you unique is not tolerated  aim to make growth accessible to everyone!

We know that no candidate checks every single box, and that’s okay! If you’re excited about this role and think you can bring something valuable to our team, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t meet every requirement. We’d love to hear from you!

AI at ablefy

As an AI-first company, we put intelligent technology at the heart of everything we do. AI is part of how we build, learn, and grow together. It helps us work smarter, move faster, and focus on creating real impact. We believe the strongest results come from combining thoughtful technology with curious, driven people — and we’re excited to shape what’s next, together.

What You'll Build

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be both a technical guide and a people leader. Your primary mission is to build the new, scalable payments and e-commerce services platform that will serve as the core engine for our 70,000+ entrepreneurs.

We are sitting on a 9-year-old, successful Ruby on Rails monolith, and this role is about building our future. This means you will be defining the strategy for how our new services will interact with, and decouple from, our existing monolith. You'll be building the bridge to our future as a true SaaS-first company.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading & Guiding Your Team: You'll hire, mentor, and support a dedicated team of engineers. You're not just a manager; you're a guide who can help your team navigate the complex technical problems of building new services around a mature monolith.
• Owning the API & Decoupling Strategy: You will spearhead the architecture and delivery of our new, public-facing API. This includes defining the "strangler fig" or other patterns for safely exposing and decoupling logic from our core RoR application.
• Building a Modern Auth System: You'll be central to the discussion and implementation of a new, secure authentication and authorization layer. You'll be thinking about scopes, policy management, and secure token handling from day one.
• Championing SaaS Principles: You will ensure everything your team builds is scalable, secure, and designed for a multi-tenant SaaS environment, even as it interfaces with our legacy systems.
• Delivering Value: You'll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery for your team, managing the technical roadmap and balancing immediate business goals (like Black Friday deliverables) with the long-term architectural vision.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who "understands this domain" and is excited…