Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Manage a team of software engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, career development opportunities, and structured growth plans.

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

• Lead the recruitment process by determining capability requirements, participating in interviews, and making final hiring decisions.

• Assist new engineers with a structured onboarding process and probation evaluation.

• Guide engineers towards senior individual contributor roles and technical leadership career paths.

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

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

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

• Promote healthy operational practices, including the appropriate distribution of on-call responsibilities.

• Identify capability gaps, performance risks, engagement challenges, and retention issues, communicating these to engineering leadership.

• Foster continuous improvement by transforming identified challenges into actionable steps with measurable results.

• Spearhead initiatives aimed at enhancing developer enablement, operational maturity, internal automation, security, or cloud efficiency.

• Contribute to establishing consistent engineering management standards across a distributed organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

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

• Proven ownership of one-on-ones, performance evaluations, career development, recruitment, and performance management.

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

• A successful track record of advancing engineers into more senior roles, technical leadership positions, or areas of expanded responsibility.

• Strong technical background to assess engineering quality and engage in discussions surrounding architecture, cloud systems, delivery practices, and operational risk.

• Familiarity with contemporary cloud-native engineering environments, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and production software operations.

• A working knowledge of incidents, on-call practices, observability, and production reliability.

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

• Experience 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 and confidence in collaborating with engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

• Proficiency in English with experience working effectively within distributed or international teams.

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

• Reside within the European Union and be able to work on a B2B contract.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement.

• More than 20 days of paid time off.

• Provision of Apple equipment.

• Budget for training and professional development.

• Senior engineering leadership position with significant influence over team development and effectiveness.

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

• Work in an international and distributed engineering environment.

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

• Opportunity to lead cross-functional initiatives that have a visible impact on the organization.

• A collaborative atmosphere working alongside senior technical and engineering leadership.