Engineering Manager, Core Platform | Remote | Europe

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have directly led engineers in a growing product or platform organization.
• 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• 🧠 Platform and systems thinking: You think deeply about correctness, reliability, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability in foundational engineering systems.
• ⚙️ Hands-on software engineering background: You have strong engineering experience and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• 🛠️ Technical depth in modern software systems: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team without becoming the critical path.
• 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: You collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and engineering stakeholders to align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and clarity.
• 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to scale teams, systems, and ways of working with intention.

Nice-to-haves

• 🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.
• 🧰 Workflow, orchestration, or developer tools experience: You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS products.
• 🌍 Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts, backward compatibility, and community expectations.
• 📈 Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale, complexity, or reliability requirements.
• 🧱 Frontend platform experience: You’re familiar with complex frontend systems such as canvas-based products, collaborative applications, plugin systems, micro-frontends, or web workers.
• 🗄️ Backend platform experience: You’ve worked on distributed systems, event-driven patterns, queues, retries, idempotency, data-intensive services, or durable execution patterns.
• ☁️ Multi-deployment awareness: You understand the complexity of building software that runs across both cloud and self-hosted environments.
• 🔭 Observability mindset: You care about operability, instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and helping teams build systems they can confidently run.