Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Manage software engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, providing feedback, career guidance, and structured growth plans.

• Take ownership of performance management, which includes setting objectives, conducting formal reviews, managing promotion cases, and handling challenging performance discussions.

• Lead the hiring process by defining capability requirements, conducting interviews, and making final hiring decisions.

• Assist new engineers with a structured onboarding process and probationary support.

• Guide engineers towards advancing in their careers as senior individual contributors and in technical leadership roles.

• Utilize throughput, cycle time, DORA metrics, and incident trends to pinpoint issues related to personnel, capabilities, and staffing.

• Collaborate with technical leaders and engineering teams to ensure the availability of necessary skills, capacity, and support.

• Maintain technical involvement to challenge estimates, comprehend technical risks, and assess engineering practices.

• Promote healthy operational practices, including an equitable distribution of on-call duties.

• Identify gaps in capabilities, performance risks, engagement challenges, and retention concerns, conveying these to engineering leadership.

• Foster continuous improvement and translate identified issues into measurable actions.

• Lead initiatives focused on developer enablement, operational maturity, internal automation, security, or cloud efficiency.

• Contribute to the establishment of consistent engineering management standards across a distributed organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software engineering.

• More than 3 years of authentic line-management experience with software engineers.

• Proven track record in overseeing one-on-ones, performance evaluations, career development, hiring, and performance management.

• Experience in making tough personnel decisions, including managing underperformance and, when necessary, terminations.

• Demonstrated success in developing engineers into senior roles, technical leadership positions, or expanded responsibilities.

• Solid technical foundation to assess engineering quality and engage in discussions about architecture, cloud systems, delivery practices, and operational risks.

• Familiarity with modern cloud-native engineering environments, CI/CD practices, and production software operations.

• Understanding of incident management, on-call practices, observability, and production reliability.

• Experience with modern AI-enabled or LLM-based products and engineering environments.

• Ability to leverage engineering metrics and delivery data to identify challenges and guide management decisions.

• Capacity to balance empathy and support with clear expectations, accountability, and direct feedback.

• Excellent communication skills and confidence in collaborating with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

• Proficient in English and experienced in working effectively with distributed or international teams.

• Experience in regulated, high-availability, or enterprise environments like fintech, banking, telecommunications, or similar is highly regarded.

• Strong written and spoken English skills (C1+ level).

• Residing within the European Union and capable of engaging in a B2B contract.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work fully remotely within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement opportunity.

• More than 20 days of paid time off annually.

• Provision of Apple equipment.

• Access to a training and professional development budget.

• Opportunity to collaborate with seasoned engineers in developing modern cloud and AI-enabled products.

• Work in an international and distributed engineering environment.

• Significant opportunity to influence engineering practices beyond your immediate team.

• Chance to lead cross-functional initiatives with a visible impact on the organization.

• Collaborative atmosphere working alongside senior technical and engineering leadership.