Engineering Manager

Accountabilities

• Own engineering delivery, ensuring teams ship high-quality software predictably while maintaining clear commitments, priorities, and standards.


• Lead, coach, and develop engineers through meaningful one-to-ones, career development, feedback, performance management, and thoughtful team practices.


• Own engineering hiring, including defining the hiring bar, conducting interviews, assessing candidates, and setting new hires up for success.


• Partner closely with Product as an equal contributor, shaping roadmaps, negotiating scope, challenging requirements when appropriate, and protecting teams from unnecessary delivery churn.


• Help the team increase its effectiveness with AI-led engineering by improving how engineers use AI agents, sharing successful practices, removing friction, and evolving development workflows.


• Contribute to the evolution toward more autonomous AI-agent workflows, helping establish appropriate guardrails, harnesses, review standards, and engineering practices.


• Stay technically involved for approximately one day per week through code reviews, architecture discussions, or selected engineering work.


• Engage directly with customers, including freight forwarders and airlines, to understand problems firsthand and bring engineers closer to real-world user needs.


• Improve team systems and processes by identifying delivery bottlenecks, strengthening workflows, and using data to drive operational improvements.


• Help establish consistent engineering practices across distributed teams while maintaining a high bar for technical quality and customer impact.

• Proven experience managing software engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, team development, and predictable delivery.


• Strong backend engineering background with solid architecture instincts and sufficient technical depth to contribute credibly to engineering decisions.


• Demonstrated delivery experience, with a track record of shipping meaningful products or features against defined timelines and an ability to explain both successes and setbacks.


• Experience building and scaling teams, including assessing candidates for potential, closing senior hires, and creating effective onboarding experiences.


• Genuine interest in AI-led software development and willingness to use AI engineering tools directly rather than managing the practice from the outside.


• Strong systems thinking and the ability to diagnose organizational or delivery problems and improve the underlying process rather than simply increasing effort.


• Strong partnership skills with Product and the ability to jointly shape what should be built, why it matters, and when it should be delivered.


• Customer orientation and willingness to engage directly with users and bring engineering teams into those conversations.


• Excellent written and verbal English, with the ability to communicate clearly in a remote-first environment.


• Strong judgment, ownership, and comfort making decisions with incomplete information.


• Low-ego leadership style, openness to feedback, and willingness to change course when new information warrants it.


• Experience with Python 3, Flask, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Kubernetes, and GCP is a plus.


• Familiarity with Vue.js, distributed teams across multiple countries, or introducing new ways of working is advantageous.

• Equity eligibility as part of the overall compensation package.


• Company-provided Claude Code and other AI tools required for the role.


• €650 one-time home office budget.


• Choice of MacBook or Dell laptop, provided before the start date.


• Access to coworking spaces through a dedicated partner network.


• 24 paid vacation days in addition to local public holidays and special leave.


• Two company-wide offsites each year, plus team trips.


• Permanent full-time employment.


• Remote-first working environment across approved European-time-zone hiring locations.


• Regular opportunities to meet colleagues in person, including company-wide gatherings twice a year.


• Visa support is currently available in Germany.


• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI-enabled software engineering and help shape emerging development practices.

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