Engineering Manager

❗️ Important: This is an On-Site Position in Lisbon❗️

This is an on-site position based at our office in the Lisbon Metropolitan area. Remote or hybrid arrangements are not available once you join the team.

Are you ready for an international move? We are looking for candidates who are either already based in Lisbon or are eager to relocate to Portugal. To make your transition smooth, we provide full relocation support and visa sponsorship for successful international candidates.

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⚡ We are looking for a highly experienced Engineering Manager to join our teams in Lisbon. With over 10 years of experience, you will lead the backend technologies and direct the delivery of several products. This role is focused on high-level technical leadership, managing senior talent, and ensuring engineering excellence across scalable, high-load systems.

🎯 Your Mission: Lead and develop backend engineering teams while owning the delivery of several products and the technical direction of the platform. You will ensure consistent delivery, foster a strong engineering culture, and manage team leads to continuously improve architecture, processes, and performance.

✅ Responsibilities:
• Direct and own the delivery of several products.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding processes, hiring and managing talent while supporting individual and team growth.
• Manage team leads and senior engineers through regular one-to-one sessions, feedback cycles, performance evaluations, and individual development plans.
• Lead or co-lead agile processes and Scrum or Kanban ceremonies, ensuring adherence to agile principles and best practices.
• Lead platform and product development without frequent involvement in writing or reviewing code.
• Improve platform and product quality by identifying technical debt, recurring issues, and architectural or process gaps.
• Manage team resources, balancing workloads, rotating people when necessary, and ensuring sustainable delivery.
• Drive the adoption of modern technologies and innovations to continuously evolve the company’s engineering capabilities.
• Define, improve, and enforce engineering standards and guidelines, ensuring domain knowledge is properly documented.
• Contribute to and lead engineering initiatives beyond the scope of the direct team, positively impacting the wider engineering organization.

✅ Requirements:
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional backend development experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineers and team leads, or senior technical profiles.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers, cloud-based development, infrastructure and system design, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with building and maintaining high-load systems.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of data structures, coding patterns, and algorithms.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, message brokers, third-party integrations, code and peer reviews, CI/CD, secure development practices, information security, and test-driven development.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Experience with Node.js (nice to have).
• Strong analytical, leadership, communication, and feedback skills.
• Fluency in English.

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:
🧑🏻‍💻 Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
✈️ Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members).
📚 Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes).
🎾 Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
🏀 Urban Sport membership benefit (the most diverse sports and wellness offering in Europe, with more than 50+ activities).
🏥 Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
🏝 Time for proper rest, with 24 non-business days per year and an additional 6 paid sick days.
🚌 Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month.
📈 Competitive remuneration level with annual review.
🤝 Teambuilding activities.