Engineering Manager
Hostaway
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇦🇹 Austria
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead two product engineering teams with a clear focus on delivery, ownership, and customer impact.
- Drive mobile app priorities around feature parity and performance, ensuring a best-in-class experience for property managers.
- Guide the Customer Delight team in identifying and resolving friction points across the platform.
- Ensure both teams deliver high-quality software on time, with scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture.
- Support engineers through mentorship, coaching, and career development - helping each person grow and succeed.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Support, and other Engineering teams to align on goals and ensure successful execution.
- Foster a team culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and refine engineering processes that improve delivery speed, system reliability, and team autonomy.
- Partner with the Director of Engineering and other Engineering Leaders to shape org-wide practices and performance standards.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineering Manager or in a similar position with direct people management responsibilities.
- A strong foundation in software engineering - you don't need to write production code daily, but you're comfortable reading and reasoning about complex systems.
- Familiarity with mobile development: you understand the mobile app lifecycle, release processes, app store dynamics, and mobile-specific concerns like performance, offline behavior, and push notifications.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in a product-oriented environment, ideally within SaaS or platform businesses.
- Ability to drive execution: aligning team goals, managing delivery timelines, and removing blockers.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and creating an environment where people can grow and thrive.
- Comfortable working in agile environments with fast-moving priorities and cross-functional teams.
- Experience in remote-first teams and product companies (vs. consultancy/project shops) is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
- 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table.
- Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company.
- Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good.
- Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
- Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
- Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary.
- Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software engineeringmobile developmentagile methodologiesscalable architecturesecure architecturemaintainable architectureperformance optimizationapp lifecycle managementrelease processesSaaS
Soft skills
leadershipmentorshipcoachingteam collaborationaccountabilitytransparencycontinuous improvementproblem-solvingcommunicationpeople management