Principal Engineering Manager

Accountabilities

• • Lead and develop an engineering team by providing clear direction, context, coaching, feedback, and support for individual and collective growth.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design from the earliest stages of discovery to shape effective solutions and align technical possibilities with customer and business needs.
  • Own delivery from problem definition through execution, ensuring priorities, responsibilities, dependencies, and expected outcomes remain clear.
  • Establish predictable and sustainable execution through thoughtful planning, realistic expectations, transparent progress tracking, and proactive risk management.
  • Provide technical leadership across complex products and systems, making informed architectural and engineering decisions while remaining close to the work.
  • Maintain high standards for engineering quality, scalability, reliability, maintainability, testing, and continuous delivery.
  • Identify opportunities to improve engineering practices, processes, collaboration, and delivery across the wider organization.
  • Help engineers work effectively with modern development technologies, including AI-assisted tools and LLM-based coding assistants.
  • Contribute strategic engineering experience and leadership to broader organizational initiatives and help create a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

  Requirements:

  • Significant experience leading engineering teams within a product-focused technology organization.
  • Proven track record of delivering complex products, platforms, or systems in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to participate confidently in both engineering and product discussions.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, establish clarity, and turn complex problems into actionable plans.
  • Strong experience partnering with Product and Design to shape solutions, priorities, and product direction.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide clear context, align diverse stakeholders, and communicate effectively at all levels.
  • Strong ownership mindset combined with a practical, execution-oriented approach to leadership.
  • Experience working with modern cloud-native technologies and engineering practices is highly valuable.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as PHP/Symfony, Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm is advantageous.
  • Understanding of distributed architectures, scalable data processing, observability, automated testing, CI/CD, continuous delivery, and A/B testing is a plus.
  • Experience using LLMs and AI-assisted development tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and software quality is beneficial.
  • Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed environment and collaborating asynchronously across functions and locations.

  Benefits:

  • Fully remote position available within the EMEA region.
  • Flexible working hours designed to support autonomy and work-life balance.
  • Private health insurance.
  • Two additional paid days off dedicated to mental or physical wellbeing.
  • One additional paid day off to celebrate a birthday or another personal occasion.
  • Internal and external learning and development opportunities.
  • Access to mentorship, internal meetups, and hackathons, both online and in person.
  • Supportive, inclusive, and globally distributed team environment.
  • Opportunities to contribute to high-impact engineering initiatives across a growing technology organization.
  • Team-building events and social activities.
  • Additional office-based perks may include complimentary healthy lunches and employee merchandise discounts.
  • Career development opportunities and exposure to broad engineering leadership responsibilities.