Requirements

• Passion for both management and being technical
• Enjoy solving management problems, including driving people to be their best and giving difficult feedback
• Ability to hold in-depth technical conversations across infrastructure, backend, and frontend
• High standards for team performance and willingness to provide detailed feedback
• Excellent and empathetic communication skills to facilitate organizational and individual change
• Deep understanding of what makes exceptional engineers and how to recruit and grow them
• Interest in thinking about product and business but prefer to empower teams to make decisions rather than calling all product shots
• Thrives in a high-trust, high-autonomy startup environment wearing multiple hats
• Hands-on engineering skills to stay technical without being on the critical path

Nice to Haves

• Experience with or love for typed languages
• Previous experience or interest in working with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, Redis
• Experience or openness to using AI-powered developer tools and automation

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage and grow a talented engineering team in Europe with up to six direct reports
• Focus on individual performance, process, and culture rather than sprint planning or direct product decisions
• Coach engineers to take ownership of large, loosely defined projects from product specs to implementation
• Provide feedback on product and technical specifications to help improve scope and quality
• Maintain hands-on engineering involvement by debugging issues, shipping fixes, and improving developer experience
• Build an environment that empowers engineers to work autonomously and with minimal distractions
• Contribute to improving tools and processes, including automation to increase efficiency and reduce manual review

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity participation
• 10-year exercise window for stock options with no pressure to purchase immediately
• Unlimited paid time off with encouragement to take vacation
• At least 12 weeks fully paid parental leave, adjusted for regional requirements
• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture
• $100 monthly education budget plus coverage for conferences with manager approval
• $250 monthly tool budget plus access to AI development tools with generous token usage
• Top-tier health insurance for U.S. employees and dependents with full premium coverage; supplemental health insurance in other countries
• Remote-friendly, low-meeting, and high-ownership culture promoting work-life balance
• Regular in-person meetups twice a year with small regional budgets for local gatherings
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with conscious diversity hiring and supportive policies