Head of Mail Transfer Development (f/m/d)

With our strong brands GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com and over 43 million active users, we are the leading email and communications platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. From this strong market position, services and apps are developed that simplify users' digital lives - from office tools and cloud solutions to personal ID management.

Your Tasks

For us and our customers, email is an integral part of daily routines and workflows. Whether on a smartphone, tablet, or PC, emails are ever-present. With our email clients, we aim to help our customers manage the daily flood of information. If you're curious about what the usage patterns of more than 43 million customers mean for systems and components in our mail backend, then you're in the right place. We build and operate everything needed to receive and appropriately sort over 25,000 emails per second for our customers.

• You enjoy taking on leadership responsibilities and thrive in a technically challenging environment.

• You like working in cross-functional teams and are skilled in handling various stakeholders and their requirements. You purposefully build networks, maintain them, and know how to establish valuable partnerships in the email industry, even beyond company boundaries.

• Your technical expertise in email protocols and security (SMTP, DKIM, SPF, DMARC), as well as your knowledge of network protocols and security standards (SSL/TLS, DANE, MTA-STS), is solid and comprehensive.

• You bring at least 5 years of professional experience from an email service provider, mailbox provider, or a similar security-focused company.
• You have hands-on experience in developing and scaling distributed systems and are well-versed in robust, resilient software architecture.

Your Profile

• You will take on both technical and disciplinary leadership of a software development team responsible for email reception and delivery.

• You will introduce new ideas for the development of your team and the associated cross-functional teams, actively shaping their future.

• You will manage and coordinate requirements with various departments across the company.

• You will stay informed about developments in the email industry by attending regular conferences and will identify technical innovations early or proactively help shape them.

Our Benefits

• Our corporate culture: No dress code, flat hierarchies, open and transparent communication
• Individual development opportunities: diverse training programmes, e-learning and internal communities, leadership training, language courses, mentoring
• Benefits and additional services: company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, discounts on own products, job ticket, company car, bike leasing, corporate benefits portal
• Attractive working conditions: 30 days holiday, hybrid working, full-time and part-time arrangements, free choice between Linux, Mac or Windows
• Social: team events, summer and winter parties, family and care service, sports and fitness programmes, subsidised canteen, free fruit and drinks, health courses
• Topics that are also important to us: Sustainability, diversity and our values and leadership principles - find out more on our website mail-and-media.com