Backend Engineering Manager

Team leadership (50%)

• Support engineers in their growth through mentoring and regular feedback.
• Create a team culture based on ownership, responsibility, and collaboration.
• Identify blockers in development and help remove them.
• Improve team efficiency through automation, good practices, and smart use of AI tools.

Hands-on technical work (50%)

• Stay close to the code—review, contribute, and guide.
• Help maintain a clean, stable, and scalable codebase.
• Support architectural decisions and drive improvements across the stack.
• Make sure our systems are reliable and deployable at scale.
• Try out and adopt new tools and technologies that make sense for us.

• You are an engineer - keep close to the actual engineering work: designing, coding, deploying, monitoring, responding to incidents
• You and your team receive positive feedback and recognition
• You're able to balance out priorities, impact in business, people and technical areas
• You maintain and adjust pool of senior backend engineers talents based on business needs
• You evaluate individual and team performance with transparent and measurable metrics

Must-Have Qualifications

• Experience in leading engineering teams as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager while staying ahead of technology trends and implementing innovations.
• Proven engineering experience in backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang, Rust
• Track record and focus on software development practices based on SRE and DevOps principles.
• Hands-on experience with development and operation of distributed systems in cloud infrastructure (SaaS). GCP is preferred but not limited to.
• Up to date with AI-powered development tools and automation strategies.
• Passion for driving team improvements, optimize workflows, and mentor engineers.

• Your work will have a direct impact on the company's results
• We will implement your good ideas almost immediately – not waiting for the approval of the headquarters somewhere in the world
• You will not be bound by corporate processes
• Your work has to be innovative and meaningful, we do not want to follow trends, but set them
• Last but not least, we mainly offer a fair reward and the possibility of professional growth and education, also a great bunch of people around and a legendary company events
• Hybrid work (3 days in the office) and unlimited holiday days are also part of the deal