Engineering Manager - Docs

What you'll be doing

  • Lead and grow a team of 5+ engineers through hiring, mentorship, career development, and clear expectations.
  • Own your team’s product outcomes, from defining the problem with Product and Design to shipping, measuring impact, and iterating.
  • Own delivery through planning, prioritization, and managing dependencies; surface risks early and help the team deliver reliably.
  • Coach engineers through regular one-to-ones, actionable feedback, and development opportunities that strengthen their judgment and autonomy.
  • Stay close to the code through code reviews, debugging, technical investigations, and targeted implementation work.
  • Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs while empowering engineers to own decisions and solutions.
  • Turn complex capabilities into simple, useful product experiences, balancing experimentation with quality and reliability.
  • Build a feedback-driven culture that uses customer input, product evidence, and retrospectives to improve both the product and how the team works.
  • Develop an inclusive team, collaborate across boundaries, and balance delivery with the technical investments needed to sustain it.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
  • Strong software-engineering background; comfortable reading code, reviewing changes, debugging problems, and discussing implementation details.
  • Experience shipping and iterating on user-facing products in close partnership with Product and Design.
  • Proven reliable delivery through planning, prioritization, dependency management, and proactive risk resolution.
  • Coaching-led management style: provides context, asks useful questions, delegates meaningful responsibility, and helps engineers develop independent judgment.
  • Gives timely, specific, actionable feedback; actively seeks feedback on their own management; and adapts accordingly.
  • Ability to reason independently about architecture and system design, balancing experimentation and delivery with reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • User-focused decision making that cares about product craft and uses feedback and evidence to simplify complex experiences.
  • Thinks from first principles, welcomes diverse perspectives, and prioritizes shared company outcomes over local team goals.
  • Works independently with minimal guidance, owning responsibilities across organizational boundaries, and maintaining clear communication and accountability.

Perks and Benefits

  • Professional growth supported by autonomy and trust to empower innovative work aligned with personal interests, talents, and well-being.
  • Connected team culture with a remote-first, hybrid model fostering collaboration and belonging through resource groups like BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, and parents, plus recognition programs.
  • Comprehensive benefits for Portugal-based candidates, including competitive pay, life care with mental health and risk benefits, defined time off, home office support, wellness and pet care stipends, and learning and development opportunities.
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