Engineering Delivery Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Enhance transparency regarding the work, ownership, and delivery risks of external teams.

• Ensure that delivery plans are realistic, transparent, aligned with business priorities, and monitored effectively.

• Identify teams that are lagging behind and diagnose the root causes of delays.

• Challenge inadequate plans, unrealistic estimates, unclear ownership, and superficial status updates.

• Confirm that reported progress accurately reflects actual engineering output.

• Elevate planning and forecasting discipline by utilizing evidence-based delivery methods.

• Collaborate with QA and engineering leads to monitor escaped bugs, rework, release readiness, Definition of Ready/Done, and quality gates.

• Track dependencies across teams, ensure that blockers are managed and resolved, and conduct fact-based escalations.

• Evaluate the composition of external teams, role coverage, seniority mix, ownership areas, and capability gaps.

• Identify delivery and quality challenges resulting from team setup, ownership, skills, allocation, technical leadership, or requirements.

• Ensure that external teams adhere to company delivery protocols, documentation standards, engineering guidelines, quality gates, and reporting practices.

• Develop vendor/team delivery scorecards.

• Establish escalation processes for repeated missed commitments or quality concerns.

• Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating issues into business impacts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software delivery, technical/engineering delivery management, technical program management, or engineering leadership.

• Demonstrated experience managing delivery across multiple external teams, vendors, or distributed partners.

• Experience overseeing delivery across engineering teams, vendors, or delivery groups comprising approximately 20–35 individuals.

• Familiarity with various business models or product environments is a significant advantage.

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, agile delivery, estimation, release planning, QA workflows, and engineering team dynamics.

• Ability to create delivery reporting and analysis while identifying gaps obscured by reporting.

• Proficiency with delivery metrics such as planned vs. actual, cycle time, throughput, escaped bugs, rework, blocked work, and predictability.

• Experience in risk and dependency management.

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Practical experience with tools such as Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Linear, or Azure DevOps.

• Experience in multi-product SaaS environments and organizations reliant on external engineering partners is a plus.

• Familiarity with building vendor scorecards or delivery performance frameworks is advantageous.

• Experience in implementing Definition of Ready/Done, release checklists, or quality gates is beneficial.

• Resume must be submitted in English.

• Must be located within a ±4 hour range of the Central European Time zone.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first: work from anywhere globally, with no relocation required.

• Flexible working hours.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Learning and development budget for courses, books, conferences, and certifications.

• Performance-based compensation.

• Join a small, senior, collaborative team.

• Opportunity to create products used by millions of people across over 160 countries.