Engineering Manager
CaptivateIQ
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇱 Poland
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed software engineering team, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
- Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management..
- Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of your teams' portfolio, ensuring critical user-facing systems are reliable and secure at scale.
- Partner with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and execute on a long-term strategy that optimizes for the entire organization.
- Provide technical leadership and direction by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor.
- Establish and uphold rigorous engineering standards, including SLAs/SLOs, security best practices, and QA processes to accelerate delivery and improve product health.
- Champion inclusive, async-first practices to ensure your teams, distributed across an ~8-hour time zone spread, can collaborate effectively.
Requirements
- 6+ years software development experience as an individual contributor or manager
- 2+ years of Engineering Manager, people management and hands-on engineering management
- A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle through lean, outcome focused rituals minimizing unnecessary process. Focused on timely customer value, refocusing efforts where necessary. This includes experience with B2B SaaS products, from backend services and APIs to the critical user-facing workflows they support.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical depth, diving deep into complex architectural problems and guiding engineers to sound decisions.
- Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.
- A track record of hiring and developing senior talent, with a passion for helping engineers advance their careers.
- High sense of ownership and a strong growth mindset; you are a collaborative, humble learner who can thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- CaptivateIQ participates in E-Verify, web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software developmentengineering managementtechnical leadershiparchitectural designB2B SaaSbackend servicesAPIsQA processesSLAsSLOs
Soft skills
coachingmentorshipperformance managementinterpersonal communicationwritten communicationcollaborationownershipgrowth mindsettrust buildingpsychological safety