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WorkMotion is a remote-first global workforce solutions company helping businesses hire, onboard, and manage talent internationally. We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality product capabilities in the global employment, payroll, compliance, and AI space.
In this role, you will lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers while maintaining strong technical involvement. You'll own team delivery, execution, and engineering health—translating business priorities into clear technical plans and ensuring realistic commitments with early risk identification. You'll partner closely with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, and other stakeholders across the organization to drive consistent impact and momentum.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing software engineers with clear expectations and supporting their professional growth
- Owning team delivery, execution, and engineering health
- Partnering with Product to translate business priorities into executable technical plans
- Maintaining strong technical awareness and actively participating in architecture and design discussions
- Ensuring appropriate engineering practices around code reviews, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation
- Driving predictable delivery while balancing feature development, technical debt, scalability, and reliability
- Collaborating with Principal and Senior Engineers on architecture and complex technical decisions
- Using engineering metrics to continuously improve team effectiveness, quality, and delivery
- Identifying dependencies and blockers early and coordinating across teams
- Building a culture of ownership and accountability
- Supporting hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
- Contributing to broader Engineering initiatives
You'll work on technically and operationally complex problems at the intersection of global employment, payroll, compliance, automation, and AI while helping shape how the Engineering organization operates as WorkMotion scales.
Requirements:
- Several years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating production systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and the Java ecosystem, with ability to understand, review, and challenge technical implementations and architectural decisions
- Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
- Strong technical judgment and ability to meaningfully contribute to architecture and technical discussions
- Experience with modern software development practices, Java-based backend systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and CI/CD
- Strong understanding of software quality, automated testing, observability, security, and operational excellence
- Experience defining and using engineering effectiveness and delivery metrics (DORA metrics, flow metrics, quality and reliability indicators) to understand team health and drive continuous improvement
- Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development with practical experience using modern AI coding tools and agents
- Experience working closely with Product in an agile product-development environment
- Strong people-management skills including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
- Ability to turn ambiguous business requirements into structured execution plans
- Data-informed approach to engineering performance without reducing productivity to simplistic metrics
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Professional fluency in English
