Engineering Manager, Integrations
ezCater
PostgresReactRubyRuby on RailsSQL
Backend Engineering Manager
Storyblok
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in Europe
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SeniorLead
Tech Stack
PostgresPythonRedisRuby
About the role
- Guide and mentor a team of backend engineers, focusing on delivery, people development, and process improvement.
- Partner with the Senior Backend Engineering Manager to align execution with team vision and strategy.
- Mentor and guide team members in their professional development and promote a culture of active coaching within the team.
- Support engineers in making technical decisions while ensuring processes and delivery run effectively.
- Establish delivery estimates, monitor progress, and help the team overcome obstacles and resolve blockers.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to ensure roadmap commitments are delivered iteratively and with customer focus.
- Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes to strengthen and grow the team.
- Facilitate regular one-on-one meetings to set goals, evaluate performance, and provide continuous feedback.
- Foster a culture of documentation, knowledge sharing, and open communication.
- Cultivate empathy and openness towards team members from diverse backgrounds, and promote a positive workplace culture.
- Contribute to improving processes in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including 2+ years of engineering leadership.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Solid backend development background (e.g., Ruby, Python), with enough technical depth to support engineers and understand challenges.
- Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL preferred), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and background processing (e.g., Sidekiq).
- Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and problem-solving, with the ability to guide mid-level and senior engineers.
- Familiarity with testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on maintainability and code quality.
- Understanding of scalability, reliability, observability, and security principles.
- Awareness of incident response practices.
- Proven ability to lead teams in execution — guiding engineers, resolving blockers, and ensuring delivery commitments are met.
- Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Confident, detail-oriented, and highly motivated to contribute to the organization's growth as part of a high-performing team.
