Engineering Manager
Bluefish AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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About the role
- Scale the team: Lead hiring and onboarding as we grow from a small, tight-knit team to a high-performing engineering organization.
- Drive execution excellence: Ensure the team delivers with high velocity, quality, and reliability—while maintaining strong cross-functional alignment. Implement and evolve processes, tools, and metrics to support scalable and repeatable delivery.
- Lead and mentor: Support and grow individual contributors through coaching and feedback—helping them become the best version of themselves and ensuring alignment with what the team needs to succeed.
- Own engineering culture: Champion a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, ownership, and collaboration.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product, design, and business leads to define the team roadmap and business goals.
- Make technical contributions: Contribute in code reviews and establish processes that keep pushing the bar on engineering excellence. While you might not code every day, you should be capable of engaging deeply on architecture, technical decisions, and trade-offs.
- Ensure platform reliability: Set up guardrails, monitoring, and alerting with the team, and drive incident response to uphold operational excellence and deliver the best possible experience for our enterprise customers.
- Continuously improve: Identify and address bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments—always looking for ways to raise the bar.
Requirements
- Have experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in multiple organizations.
- Have strong product acumen and a deep sense of customer empathy. You act as a sparring partner—challenging the team and product to build solutions customers truly love.
- Have a track record of delivering complex, high-quality software in a product-focused environment.
- Are fluent in modern development practices—CI/CD, cloud platforms (ideally AWS), infrastructure automation, testing, and system reliability.
- Have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You can influence cross-functionally and empower teams to make decisions that align with both technical and business needs.
- Lead with humility, clarity, and high standards. You’re as comfortable rolling up your sleeves when teams need it as you are empowering others by setting clear expectations and upholding the bar without micromanagement.
- Have previous experience in a startup environment and thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous situations. You know how to operate without much structure—and enjoy building it.
Benefits
- Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup building at the center of AI
- Tackle challenging and abstract problems while disrupting the $300BN legacy mar-tech industry
- Join an experienced high-performing team where you will have immediate ownership and impact
- Experience a true meritocracy with significant career growth upside as the business scales
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDcloud platformsinfrastructure automationtestingsystem reliabilitycode reviewsarchitecturetechnical decisionsincident responseprocess improvement
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementcollaborationcustomer empathyinfluencehumilityclarityhigh standards