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Senior Engineering Manager

You lead and develop engineers and engineering leads, structure teams, own delivery across projects and releases, improve engineering processes, manage performance and hiring, align engineering plans with product priorities, maintain technical standards, oversee infrastructure and reliability practices, and track engineering metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineers and engineering leads
  • Structure engineering teams and define ownership
  • Own engineering execution across projects and releases
  • Track progress, blockers, dependencies, risks, and timelines
  • Build and improve planning, estimation, development, testing, release, retrospective, and incident-management processes
  • Identify and remove engineering bottlenecks
  • Manage 1:1s, performance reviews, development plans, feedback cycles, and performance improvement
  • Partner on workforce planning, hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and offboarding
  • Translate product priorities into engineering plans
  • Maintain standards for architecture, code quality, scalability, security, reliability, technical debt, and maintainability
  • Ensure effective CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability practices
  • Track delivery, quality, reliability, capacity, and performance metrics

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
  • Experience managing Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, or multiple engineering teams
  • Software architecture
  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • System reliability
  • Engineering processes
  • Team structures
  • Software delivery
  • Hiring
  • Onboarding
  • Performance management
  • Employee development
  • Technical debt management
  • Agile software development
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Analytical skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Advanced English (C1)

Benefits

  • 24 days annual leave
  • Public holidays
  • Health insurance
  • Performance-based incentives

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