Engineering Manager – Foundations & Enablement

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

📋 Description

• Lead and provide support to a cross-functional Foundations & Enablement engineering team.

• Balance the team's technical roadmap with prioritized demands from various product teams.

• Transparently communicate roadmap and prioritization trade-offs.

• Maintain and enhance engineering-wide standards for security, tooling, CI/CD, and developer experience.

• Collaborate with the Infrastructure team on shared platform issues.

• Mentor and guide team members while fostering an environment of active coaching.

• Support technical decision-making and ensure efficient processes and delivery.

• Establish delivery estimates, track progress, navigate obstacles, and resolve blockers.

• Oversee recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, set goals, evaluate performance, and provide ongoing feedback.

• Encourage documentation, knowledge sharing, and open lines of communication within engineering.

• Cultivate a culture of empathy, openness, and positivity in the workplace.

• Enhance processes in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including at least 2 years in engineering leadership.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• Proficient in both frontend and backend engineering operations.

• Practical experience with scalability, reliability, observability, and security principles.

• Experience managing platform, DevOps, security, or developer-tooling initiatives.

• Knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and problem-solving techniques.

• Capability to guide senior and staff engineers.

• Familiarity with testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines.

• Working knowledge of incident response practices.

• Proven track record of leading teams to execute tasks, resolve blockers, and meet delivery commitments.

• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Experience in negotiating priorities among multiple teams.

• Confidence, attention to detail, and high levels of motivation.

• Familiarity with AI tools and the ability to utilize them judiciously with critical thinking.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly stipend for remote work (covering home internet and electricity expenses).

• Initial home office equipment package (laptop, keyboard, monitor, etc.).

• Upgrade for home office equipment (furniture, ear plugs, etc.) or a membership to a local co-working space after onboarding.

• Sick leave benefits.

• Parental leave.

• 25 days of annual leave plus local national holidays.

• Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and materials.

• VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan).

• Annual international team-building trip.

• Quarterly and monthly online gatherings.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Opportunity for remote work or funded Storyblok co-working space.