Engineering manager

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems. This role sits at the intersection of project management, engineering leadership, and platform development. The team (Evaluation Engines / Data processing engines) owns foundational components which are embedded into higher level workflow engines and tools. Examples are formula evaluation, data transformation according to predefined mapping, decision models, etc.

• You will manage and develop experienced engineers with significant ownership of their technical domains.
• You will be responsible for regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and team health.
• We expect you to create an environment where engineers can remain highly autonomous while having clear priorities, ownership, and accountability.
• You will be responsible for team capacity planning and hiring when needed.
• You will be working closely with Product Managers and department VP to define how the products look, what to build and in which order, what new exciting features we can bring to our customers.
• You will be responsible for working with Quality Engineering and Product Security teams to deliver high-quality products.
• At the same time in this AI era we expect you to embrace new tools to shift quality and security scans left.
• Own planning and operational execution across multiple engineering workstreams.
• Create visibility into priorities, dependencies, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Help the team turn broad technical direction into an executable roadmap.
• Identify and remove blockers before they significantly impact delivery.
• Balance new development, customer commitments, operational work, and technical debt.
• Define meaningful engineering metrics and use them to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Keep stakeholders informed about progress, risks, and trade-offs.
• Plan release and update cycles of the product.
• Maintain the product, be responsible for defects triaging and mitigation.
• You should be comfortable participating in technical discussions, reviewing designs and architecture proposals, understanding engineering trade-offs, and challenging assumptions when needed.
• Depending on your background and interests, you may also review code, contribute to tooling or prototypes, participate in incident investigation, or use automation and AI-assisted development to improve engineering workflows.

• Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management.
• Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers.
• A strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms.
• Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi-quarter engineering initiatives.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices.
• Experience managing technical debt alongside product and business priorities.
• Ability to understand complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Будет плюсом: Golang or Rust; understanding of WASM platform; Basic understanding of formal grammar, AST, compiler frontends; Observability and operational tooling; Open-source development; AI-assisted software development and automated code review; PostgreSQL or database infrastructure; Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure; Multi-repository development environments; Developer-facing APIs, SDKs, libraries, or integrations

• We also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.