Head of Mail Transfer Development (f/m/d)
1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE | IT Software Development | Karlsruhe | Permanent | Full-time | Management roles | Reference ID: 215
- 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.
Our benefits
Lived corporate culture
Transparency, open communication and short decision-making processes
Wide range of further training
E-learning, seminars, conferences and mentoring
Renowned TEC-Campus
Conferences, lecture series, courses, open source projects, community meetings, user groups
Active health care
Sports and fitness classes, lectures, discounts at fitness and health centers, fresh fruit and drinks for free
Mobility
Generous subsidy for job bike leasing and the job ticket
Flexible working models
Home office, mobile office, flexible working hours, trust-based working time arrangements
Financial benefits
Company pension scheme, discounts on our products and various leisure activities
Legendary events
Summer and winter parties, additional workshops and team events
- 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 in detail
- 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
We are brand. With GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com and over 43 million active users, we are the leading email and communication platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We are future. Our services and apps simplify digital life from cloud storage to news and ID management.
You are at home. Your digital passion finds a professional home with us. Your strength makes us stronger, your expertise complements our ideas, your success becomes visible. Together we shape the digital future.
Diversity enriches. Different cultures, nationalities, genders, age groups, sexual orientations and religions as well as people with disabilities - we desire diversity and encourage it. Because only teams that reflect all facets of society offer the best framework conditions for creativity and make a company productive and distinctive. We value diversity and welcome all applications.
Apply now
We look forward to receiving your application, including your salary expectations and the reference number given above. Please use our online application form. If you have any questions about the position or the application process, please send us an email.
1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE
Recruiting & Candidate Management
Brauerstraße 48
D-76135 Karlsruhe
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