Engineering Manager

• Running a continuous weekly 1:1 practice, removing blockers, and mentoring a team of engineers on both technical craft and career growth
• Establishing career growth objectives, leveling expectations, and providing continuous, specific feedback for every engineer on the team
• Reviewing code, design documents, tests, and CI/CD changes regularly, raising the bar on quality, simplicity, delivery speed, observability, and long-term maintainability
• Backing up the team in the trenches: pairing on hard problems, jumping into incidents, debugging production issues, writing code, and helping engineers use AI tools responsibly when they improve quality or speed
• Driving architectural, tooling, and technical roadmap decisions that improve business outcomes, delivery speed, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams to connect technical work to revenue, retention, customer experience, and operational efficiency
• Planning, managing, and allocating engineering capacity against quarterly OKRs, using business impact, operational risk, and your own understanding of the system to guide trade-offs
• Championing and improving Beyond’s engineering practices such as trunk-based development, CI/CD, risk-based testing, feature flags, observability, pairing, code reviews, and collective code ownership
• Contributing to new products and projects while supporting and maintaining the existing code base, as needed
• Facilitating conversations with external stakeholders
• Contributing to the code base 50% and managing a team 50% of the time

Engineering Manager leading engineering team at Beyond

Manager, Engineering

Engineering Manager overseeing a team of engineers at Beyond, enhancing engineering practices and mentoring for technical growth.

• Lead by example and manage a team of talented engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development support;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data science and data engineering managers, and product managers to define project goals, scope, and deliverables;
• Drive the end-to-end development process, from design to implementation and deployment, ensuring high-quality and scalable solutions (with controlled cost);
• Identify and prioritize technical initiatives, considering ROI, scalability, and performance requirements;
• Implement modern software development practices, including agile methodologies, continuous integration, and deployment, to ensure efficient and effective project delivery;
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that the platform meets customer needs and provides an exceptional user experience;
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, promoting knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Engineering Manager leading software developers for OLX's platform quality.

Engineering Manager leading a team of developers at OLX to ensure platform quality and drive innovative solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing tech projects.

• Lead and scale the engineering organization with a strong focus on people leadership, organizational structure, and delivery predictability.
• Own engineering delivery at an organizational level, including capacity planning, prioritization, roadmap feasibility, and dependency management across multiple initiatives and projects.
• Directly manage and develop engineering leadership (Tech Leads and QA Leads), and evolve the management and ownership model as the organization grows.
• Work closely with the Head of Technology, Product, and leadership to translate business priorities into clear, realistic engineering plans and trade‑offs.
• Set clear standards together with teams for architecture, quality, reliability, and security, and ensure teams can execute against them independently.
• Be accountable for overall service reliability by ensuring appropriate ownership, escalation paths, and continuous improvement practices are in place.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development to support sustainable team growth.
• Build and introduce the next layer of engineering capabilities beyond feature teams, including areas such as architecture, security, compliance (e.g. ISO or SOC 2 certification), and platform concerns.
• Strengthen engineering processes, decision‑making, and accountability to reduce reliance on individuals and founders.
• Foster a culture of clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement as the organization scales.

Head of Engineering leading scaling initiatives for sustainable inflight service management

Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering leading a remote team focused on sustainable inflight service management. Responsible for scaling engineering capacity and ensuring delivery reliability in aviation tech.

• Work closely with key business customers, stakeholders, external partners, and all groups within the Technology organisation to implement, evolve, support and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards, within Blip's overall infrastructure;
• Clearly communicate and promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies and plans for products and/or components;
• Own the product lifecycle and be responsible for managing all delivery risks;
• Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule;
• Responsible for fostering an open-source mindset and for maintaining strong and collaborative relationships with other Senior Managers among PPB or other divisions;
• Lead, inspire, motivate and line manage an area composed of several multi-discipline software development teams and Managers;
• Coach, hold 1 to 1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management;
• Help build a ‘delivery with high quality' culture that is accountability and results-oriented;
• Responsible for achieving and sustaining employee engagement;
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s);
• Execute, plan and manage changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements;
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes and checklists;
• Prioritise all tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Foster an appropriate sense of urgency to deliver results at pace;
• Actively measure and review the Productivity, Velocity, Quality and Duration of delivery, taking prompt corrective action where necessary.

Senior Engineering Manager leading multi-discipline software development teams at Blip

Senior Engineering Manager – Maternity Cover

Senior Engineering Manager providing leadership to multi-discipline software teams at Blip. Overseeing project delivery and aligning with business stakeholders in the sports entertainment tech industry.

• Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers across three teams.
• Set the vision and roadmap for developer productivity; Drive our performance engineering practice and own the release experience.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, and internal CI teams across Datadog to understand how they build software and continuously increase the efficiency of our workflows.
• Scale and evolve fault-tolerant, tier-0 CI and CD systems to support growth into new and more complex environments.

Engineering Manager managing Developer Experience and Performance teams at Datadog

Engineering Manager II – APM DCS Platform Delivery

Engineering Manager overseeing Developer Experience, Performance, and Release teams at Datadog. Leading projects to enhance developer productivity and product quality in a hybrid workplace.

• As Head of Hub, lead and further develop the engineering and shared services hub in Portugal
• Oversee the established hub in Lisbon and support the expansion of operations in Porto
• Act as legal and disciplinary manager for local teams
• Ensure the hub operates in line with business priorities, governance standards, and economic expectations
• Own and manage the hub budget and ensure alignment with business priorities and governance standards
• Support resource planning, organizational growth, and local cost management in line with business demand
• Coordinate compliance-related topics in collaboration with HR, Global Mobility, Tax, Legal, Payroll, and Finance
• Ensure workforce structures, employment models, and deployment setups are managed in a compliant and practical way
• Act as a key partner for global mobility, cross-border workforce deployment, and related governance topics
• Identify risks early and support pragmatic solutions within defined frameworks
• Drive local hiring decisions in cooperation with recruiting and business stakeholders
• Establish strong stakeholder relationships across Europe and globally and act as a central interface for hub services

Head of Hub leading engineering and shared services in Portugal

Senior Hub Manager – Engineering

Head of Hub overseeing engineering and shared services for Körber in Portugal. Responsible for expansion, team leadership, and operational excellence in dynamic environment.

• Lead and manage a multi-skilled team of backend, frontend, and firmware engineers
• Set clear team and individual objectives, and provide ongoing performance feedback and development
• Build and empower a team to deliver creative, thorough, and practical solutions to a wide range of complex technical problems
• Collaborate closely with other Engineering leads to bring continuous improvements and take our Engineering organisation to a new level
• Provide technical guidance and support to the engineering team, ensuring adherence to best practices and company standards
• Ensure that the code produced is aligned with the best practices and standards in the industry (such as following SOLID principles and containing a healthy level of test coverage)
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other EMs to align our engineering efforts with business goals
• Focus on the professional and personal growth of your team, including conducting performance and compensation reviews

Engineering Manager leading teams in smart locker solutions at Bloq.it

Engineering Manager leading teams of engineers to develop smart locker solutions for Bloq.it. Collaborating with product managers and focusing on team development in a hybrid environment.

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