Engineering Manager

Your role in the team

• Manage and support engineers across the Customer Success and Delivery & Returns teams, ensuring they have a clear mission, and healthy processes.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, mentor engineers, and support their personal and professional growth.
• Build psychological safety, enable ownership, and help team members unlock their potential.
• Facilitate technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design decisions to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Ensure your teams produce high-quality engineering outcomes by promoting best practices and establishing clear quality standards.
• Occasionally contribute to code reviews or smaller technical tasks when needed—while keeping your focus on team impact, not hands-on development.
• Work closely with Product and cross-functional partners to define goals, shape roadmaps, and ensure predictable execution.
• Identify and resolve blockers, surface risks early, and maintain a productive environment where teams can move quickly with clarity.
• Contribute to company and squad-level planning, influencing both short- and long-term strategies.
• Maintain strong communication loops with your manager, engineering leadership, and stakeholders.
• Communicate progress transparently, celebrate achievements, and ensure business partners know what to expect and when.
• Strengthen the engineering culture through feedback, knowledge sharing, documentation, and leading by example.
• Encourage experimentation, learning, and adoption of modern tools and practices.
• Promote collaboration across engineering teams to solve cross-domain challenges.

Technologies and skills

• PostgreSQL
• Go
• Redis
• Google Cloud Platform
• RabbitMQ
• gRPC
• SQL
• Kubernetes

Our expectations:

Qualifications

• You have a proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent, as well as manage performance with clarity and empathy.
• You lead with low ego, openness, and a belief in autonomy and empowerment, where engineers take ownership and collaborate effectively.
• You have a solid understanding of backend systems, distributed architectures, and how scalable services are designed, enabling you to actively participate in architectural discussions and guide teams toward sound decisions.
• You rely on strong collaboration with senior and staff-level engineers and architects, ensuring that solutions are well-reasoned, maintainable, and aligned with broader technical direction.
• You understand SQL, relational database concepts, and modern backend practices well enough to provide context, make informed decisions, and remove ambiguity.
• While you are not expected to be hands-on day to day, you feel confident reviewing high-level designs, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring that the team ships robust, thoughtful solutions.
• You thrive in remote, distributed, and cross-functional environments, partnering effectively with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders.
• You ask the right questions, identify risks, challenge assumptions, and help engineers balance long-term quality with pragmatic delivery.
• You influence through clarity and context rather than authority, building alignment across teams and domains.
• You cultivate a culture focused on ownership and reliability.
• You promote modern engineering practices, clear processes, and effective ways of working that enable predictable delivery.
• You foster transparency, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, while rejecting a blame culture. Mistakes are learning opportunities.
• You are self-directed, aligned with objectives, and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
• Excellent English skills and based in a European time zone.

Experience

• You are a strong, trusted engineering leader with 4+ years of experience managing senior backend and frontend engineers.

Education

• A degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) that provides a strong foundation for system-level thinking.

Benefits

• Workation