Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

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

• Oversee performance management, including setting objectives, conducting formal reviews, handling promotion cases, and addressing challenging performance discussions.

• Take charge of the hiring process, from defining capability requirements to conducting interviews and making final hiring decisions.

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

• Guide engineers in their development towards senior individual contributor roles and technical leadership positions.

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

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

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

• Promote healthy operational practices, including a fair distribution of on-call responsibilities.

• Recognize capability gaps, performance risks, engagement concerns, and retention threats, and relay these to engineering leadership.

• Foster continuous improvement by transforming identified issues into measurable actions.

• Lead projects 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.

• At least 3 years of authentic line-management experience with software engineers.

• Proven ownership of one-on-one meetings, performance evaluations, career development, hiring processes, and performance management.

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

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

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

• Knowledge of modern cloud-native engineering environments, CI/CD, and software operations in production.

• Understanding of incidents, on-call protocols, observability, and production reliability.

• Familiarity with contemporary AI-enabled or LLM-based products and engineering environments.

• Proficient in using engineering metrics and delivery data to identify issues and guide management decisions.

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

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

• Fluent in English, with experience working effectively in distributed or international teams.

• Strong written and spoken English proficiency (C1+).

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

• Residing within the European Union and capable of working under a B2B contract.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work opportunity within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement.

• Over 20 days of paid time off.

• Provision of Apple equipment.

• Budget allocated for training and professional development.

• Senior engineering leadership position with significant ownership of personnel development and team effectiveness.

• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced engineers in building modern cloud and AI-enabled products.

• Work within an international and distributed engineering environment.

• Ample 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.