[Hiring] Engineering Manager Expert @Mate academy

Role Description

We’re opening a new track in our upskill line for engineering leaders, and it needs one thing to work: a real expert who has grown from engineer to manager of managers and has built strong engineering organizations. You’ll turn what you already know into the backbone of a course built around practical tasks per topic.

• Improving the theoretical and practical assignments for the course, drawing on your own professional experience in the field.
• Developing practical tasks related to specific functional objectives.
• Running live Q&A sessions based on questions that students submit in advance via a form.
• Flagging gaps in the theory and passing them back to the instructional design team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT, with a path from engineer or tech lead to leading multiple teams and managers in a product or large service company.
• 5+ years in Engineering Manager roles or above, ideally including 2+ years of managing other EMs or tech leads.
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams of 20+ people, including hiring, onboarding, and org design.
• Strong people management practice: 1:1s, performance reviews, career matrices, and handling underperformance and terminations.
• Hands-on ownership of engineering practices and metrics: code review, CI/CD, tech debt, DORA, and the balance between features and reliability.
• The ability to work with business and product on planning and prioritization, and to justify technical decisions and team budgets.
• Experience growing tech leads and EMs through mentoring or leadership development programs.

Requirements

• Experience in both product and outsourcing companies, including work with distributed teams.
• Experience introducing AI tools into engineering processes and measuring their impact on team productivity.
• Experience creating learning programs, teaching, speaking at conferences, or writing articles on DOU.
• Experience creating educational or professional content.
• A technical background that still lets you dive deep into architecture.

Benefits

• Mission to help millions of people advance their careers in the tech industry.
• A minimum of bureaucracy.
• An incredible team that takes pride in what they do, which makes work an exciting adventure.
• Practice your soft-skills - mentoring is a great way to grow to Senior positions faster.
• Hourly compensation and flexible schedule - your mentorship week will include 10+ hours of work that you can distribute throughout the week.

Company Description

Mate academy is an EdTech company with a gamified, AI-powered learning platform that helps people level up their skills, start new careers, and grow professionally. Already, 6500+ graduates have changed their careers and successfully started in IT. We are actively growing in Ukraine and Poland, and this is only the beginning.