[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Coinspaid

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one or more teams within an Engineering Domain, supporting people’s growth, driving delivery, and ensuring engineering quality and operational reliability.

• Lead and develop people:
  • Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
  • Provide actionable feedback and create individual development plans with tech leads.
  • Build trust within the team and support a healthy, collaborative working environment through open communication and thoughtful people management.
• Build effective teams:
  • Own hiring and onboarding.
  • Identify required competencies and manage team composition, capacity, workload, and absence coverage.
  • Create an environment built on trust, accountability, respectful communication, and continuous learning.
• Set goals and delegate effectively:
  • Translate business and product priorities into clear team goals, technical OKRs, and actionable plans.
  • Delegate responsibilities with clear expectations and decision-making authority, supporting ownership.
• Own planning and delivery:
  • Coordinate prioritisation, estimation, sprint and release planning, and execution.
  • Balance scope, capacity, dependencies, and quality to deliver predictable outcomes and communicate changes early.
• Delivery methods maintenance and improvement:
  • Work effectively within established Agile processes, ensuring consistent sprint planning, capacity management, and workload allocation.
  • Track progress against commitments, address delivery risks, and continuously refine team practices using delivery metrics and team feedback.
• Act proactively:
  • Identify delivery risks, capability gaps, technical weaknesses, and operational issues before they escalate.
  • Initiate corrective action, involve the right people, and follow through to resolution.
• Drive technical development:
  • Partner with the Lead Solutions Architect and tech leads to shape the technical roadmap.
  • Assess technical trade-offs, resolve complex blockers, and prioritise technical debt, modernisation, and automation alongside product work.
• Ensure quality and reliability:
  • Coordinate QA and release engineering capacity.
  • Strengthen testing and automation, and ensure production readiness through secure development and SRE practices.
  • Monitor service quality and use incidents and release outcomes to drive improvements.
• Support service operations:
  • Organise on-call onboarding and schedules.
  • Coordinate incidents and escalations with L2 support.
  • Ensure support teams understand team-owned services.
• Collaborate:
  • Keep engineering, product, DevOps, Security, and other stakeholders aligned on goals, progress, and risks.
  • Maintain lightweight, useful processes, ensure adherence to engineering standards, and improve practices based on measurable outcomes and team feedback.
• Report progress and align with the line manager:
  • Keep the line manager informed of progress against the product and technical roadmaps, team goals, and delivery plans.
  • Discuss risks, priorities, and resource needs, and contribute to technical strategy and planning.

Qualifications

• At least 2–3 years of direct people management experience leading engineering teams (10+ team members).
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering across backend, frontend, or QA, including hands-on technical work and technical leadership.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to discuss architecture, engineering quality, and technical trade-offs with architects and tech leads.
• Practical knowledge of Agile methods, with experience planning sprints, managing capacity and workload, and adapting delivery practices to team needs.
• Ability to select and interpret engineering and delivery metrics, turn findings into concrete actions, and assess whether those actions improve outcomes.
• Experience setting clear goals, defining success measures, delegating effectively, and holding people accountable while supporting their autonomy.
• Empathetic people leadership: active listening, awareness of individual motivations and team dynamics, and confidence in handling difficult conversations and conflict.
• A proactive approach to identifying risks and weaknesses, taking initiative, and driving issues through to resolution.
• Experience partnering with Product Management to balance product priorities, technical investment, and available team capacity.
• Understanding of secure software development, automated testing, release management, production monitoring, and incident response.
• A collaborative approach grounded in respect, transparency, accountability, and openness to feedback.

Benefits

• Flexible Benefits: Benefit Bar – up to €230/month.
• Fully remote work from almost anywhere.
• Optional offices and relocation support.
• Flexible, async-friendly environment.
• Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development.
• Language learning support.
• Cross-team learning and knowledge sharing.
• Medical insurance or reimbursement depending on location.
• Access to mental health support.
• Financial support for important life events.
• Merch shop with rewards system.
• Team offsites and company events.