Engineering Manager
CaptivateIQ
Senior Engineering Manager
CaptivateIQ
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇱 Poland
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Senior
About the role
- Lead, inspire, and grow multiple distributed software engineering teams, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
- Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a focus on growing senior and staff-level engineers.
- 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 align 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
- Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor, and a proven track record as an Engineering Manager leading multiple, distributed software engineering teams.
- A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle. 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 senior engineers to sound decisions.
- A strategic thinker, comfortable setting technical vision over a 6-12 month horizon and managing a complex portfolio of projects.
- 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
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Hard skills
software developmentengineering managementB2B SaaSbackend servicesAPIsarchitectural designperformance managementquality assurancesecurity best practicesuser-facing systems
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingmentorshipinterpersonal communicationwritten communicationstrategic thinkingcollaborationgrowth mindsetownershippsychological safety