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Salary: EUR 60,000 - 100,000 / annual
WorkMotion is a remote-first, globally distributed company helping organizations hire, onboard, and manage talent internationally through flexible workforce solutions. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality product capabilities.
In this role, you will lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers while maintaining strong technical involvement. You'll own the team's delivery, execution, and engineering health, ensuring realistic commitments and early risk identification. You'll partner closely with Product to translate business priorities into clear, executable technical plans and actively participate in architecture and design discussions.
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 create executable technical plans
- Maintaining strong technical awareness and participating in architecture discussions
- Ensuring engineering practices around code reviews, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation
- Driving predictable delivery while balancing feature development, technical debt, and platform reliability
- Collaborating with Principal and Senior Engineers on complex technical decisions
- Using engineering metrics to improve team effectiveness and delivery
- Identifying dependencies and blockers early
- Building a culture of ownership and accountability
- Supporting hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
The company operates across 26 countries with a global, remote-first culture. They emphasize ownership over hand-offs, quality with speed, pragmatism over perfection, transparency, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
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 contribute meaningfully 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 metrics (DORA metrics, flow metrics, quality and reliability indicators) to understand team health and drive improvement
- Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development with practical experience using modern AI coding tools
- Experience working closely with Product in agile environments
- 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 across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Professional fluency in English
