Engineering Delivery Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Enhance visibility into the efforts, ownership, and delivery risks of external engineering teams.

• Create realistic and transparent delivery plans aligned with business priorities.

• Recognize delays early and investigate their root causes.

• Question weak plans, unrealistic estimates, ambiguous ownership, and superficial status updates.

• Confirm that reported progress accurately reflects actual engineering output.

• Enhance planning and forecasting through evidence-based delivery methods.

• Monitor quality metrics such as escaped bugs, rework, release readiness, and quality gates.

• Manage dependencies, obstacles, and escalation processes across teams.

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

• Identify delivery and quality challenges stemming from team setup, skill deficiencies, allocation, leadership, or unclear requirements.

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

• Develop vendor and team delivery scorecards.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proven track record of managing delivery across multiple external teams, vendors, or distributed partners.

• Experience supervising engineering teams, vendors, or delivery groups of approximately 20–35 individuals.

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

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

• Ability to develop delivery reporting and analysis while identifying reporting gaps.

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

• Experience in risk and dependency management.

• Exceptional communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

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

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

• Experience in developing vendor scorecards or delivery performance frameworks is advantageous.

• Familiarity with implementing Definition of Ready/Done, release checklists, or quality gates is a plus.

• Professional English communication skills; resumes must be submitted in English.

• Availability within approximately ±4 hours of Central European Time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first culture: work from any location globally, no relocation necessary.

• Flexible hours: performance is assessed based on outcomes rather than hours spent at a desk.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Budget for learning and development, including courses, books, conferences, and certifications.

• Compensation based on performance.

• Small, experienced, and collaborative team.

• Opportunity to develop products utilized by millions across over 160 countries.