Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

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

• Oversee performance management within the team, including setting objectives, conducting formal evaluations, handling promotion cases, and navigating challenging performance discussions.

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

• Facilitate the onboarding and probation processes for new engineers through structured support.

• Guide engineers in their development towards senior individual contributor and technical leadership career paths.

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

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

• Challenge project estimates, assess technical risks, and evaluate engineering practices.

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

• Identify gaps in capabilities, performance risks, engagement issues, and retention risks, and communicate these to engineering leadership.

• Drive continuous improvement and translate identified challenges into measurable actions.

• Lead initiatives focused on engineering effectiveness, such as 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 genuine line-management experience with software engineers.

• Proven track record of overseeing one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, career development, hiring processes, and performance management.

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

• A demonstrated history of 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 risk.

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

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

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

• Experience in utilizing engineering metrics and delivery data to identify issues and inform management decisions.

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

• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work across engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.

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

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work within the European Union.

• Long-term B2B engagement.

• More than 20 days of paid time off.

• Apple equipment provided.

• Budget allocated for training and professional development.

• Senior engineering leadership role that offers significant ownership of personnel development and team effectiveness.

• Opportunity to collaborate with experienced engineers in building 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 that have a visible impact on the organization.

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