Senior Engineering Manager – Maternity Cover

Blip.pt

Senior Engineering Manager providing leadership to multi-discipline software teams at Blip. Overseeing project delivery and aligning with business stakeholders in the sports entertainment tech industry.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timePorto • 🇵🇹 PortugalSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work closely with key business customers, stakeholders, external partners, and all groups within the Technology organisation to implement, evolve, support and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards, within Blip's overall infrastructure;
Clearly communicate and promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies and plans for products and/or components;
Own the product lifecycle and be responsible for managing all delivery risks;
Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule;
Responsible for fostering an open-source mindset and for maintaining strong and collaborative relationships with other Senior Managers among PPB or other divisions;
Lead, inspire, motivate and line manage an area composed of several multi-discipline software development teams and Managers;
Coach, hold 1 to 1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management;
Help build a ‘delivery with high quality' culture that is accountability and results-oriented;
Responsible for achieving and sustaining employee engagement;
Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s);
Execute, plan and manage changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements;
Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes and checklists;
Prioritise all tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle;
Foster an appropriate sense of urgency to deliver results at pace;
Actively measure and review the Productivity, Velocity, Quality and Duration of delivery, taking prompt corrective action where necessary.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven track record of leading and managing teams on complex software projects;
Using agile methods for software delivery;
Working with distributed, redundant and transactional systems and the testing of these;
Managing the development of a team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team member's career interests where possible;
BSc in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrable knowledge;
Manage effectively a team consisting of multiple disciplines;
Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly with regard to technical risks, issues and constraints;
Able to lead and motivate others;
Work well under time and environmental pressures;
Demonstrate senior principles, leading by example in terms of work ethic and professional attitude;
Able to project manage work and prioritise effectively;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English and Portuguese);
Team player, who strives to maximise team and departmental performance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Project ManagementTechnical Risk ManagementProcess AutomationQuality AssuranceDistributed SystemsTransactional SystemsPerformance ManagementCapacity PlanningBSc in Computer ScienceComplex Problem Solving

Soft Skills

Team MotivationEffective CommunicationCollaborationPerformance AppraisalAdaptability