Engineering Manager

Accountabilities: Lead and Develop Engineering Teams: Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, support professional development, and empower engineers to deliver high-quality results. Drive Product Outcomes: Partner with Product Managers and Designers throughout discovery, opportunity assessment, solution definition, and prioritization to ensure engineering efforts deliver meaningful business value. Shape Technical and Product Decisions: Challenge assumptions, evaluate alternative solutions, and make informed trade-offs between customer impact, delivery speed, technical complexity, and long-term sustainability. Own Engineering Execution: Oversee the complete delivery lifecycle, from planning and implementation to deployment, production operations, and post-launch evaluation. Ensure Predictable Delivery: Establish effective prioritization, coordinate dependencies across teams, identify delivery risks early, and maintain transparency around progress and outcomes. Guide Technical Direction: Contribute to architectural decisions, maintain engineering standards, and promote scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions. Improve Engineering Practices: Encourage automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, code reviews, observability, and continuous improvement across development workflows. Promote AI-Assisted Development: Encourage the practical use of large language models and coding assistants to improve implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code quality. Collaborate Across Engineering Squads: Align priorities and technical approaches with other Engineering Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to support broader organizational objectives. Foster a High-Performance Culture: Build an inclusive, supportive, and accountable environment that encourages technical excellence, knowledge sharing, experimentation, and continuous learning. Requirements: Engineering Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams within a product-focused technology company. Product and System Delivery: Demonstrated success delivering complex products, software systems, or technical initiatives in a fast-paced and evolving environment. Strong Product Mindset: Experience collaborating with Product Managers and Designers on discovery, opportunity shaping, prioritization, and product decision-making. Technical Expertise: Strong technical judgment and the ability to participate meaningfully in architectural discussions, evaluate engineering solutions, and guide technical decisions. Problem-Solving and Ownership: Ability to navigate ambiguity independently, assess competing priorities, make sound trade-offs, and take responsibility for outcomes. People Management Skills: Excellent leadership, coaching, feedback, and team development capabilities, with a commitment to building effective and motivated engineering teams. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align technical teams and business partners around shared objectives. Backend and Frontend Technology Familiarity: Experience with modern software development technologies, ideally including PHP with Symfony, Node.js with TypeScript, and Angular with TypeScript. Data and Distributed Systems: Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, scalable data processing, and distributed architectures. Cloud and Infrastructure: Understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, containerized environments, cloud-native services, and modern observability practices. Engineering Excellence: Experience with automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, continuous delivery, and A/B testing. AI-Assisted Development: Practical experience using LLMs and coding assistants to enhance software development workflows, improve productivity, and maintain high code quality. Adaptability and Continuous Learning: A proactive approach to improving engineering practices, embracing new technologies, and helping teams succeed in a global, collaborative environment. Benefits: Remote-first flexibility: Work fully remotely within eligible EMEA locations, with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across multiple countries. Flexible working hours: Organize your schedule with the flexibility to start your working day as late as 11 AM. Private health insurance: Access private healthcare coverage to support your well-being. Additional well-being leave: Receive two extra paid days off dedicated to your mental or physical health. Celebration day off: Enjoy one additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday or another occasion of your choice. Learning and development: Access internal and external learning opportunities to strengthen your technical and leadership skills. Mentorship and knowledge sharing: Benefit from mentorship, internal meetups, and hackathons, available both online and on-site. International team culture: Join a diverse, inclusive, and supportive global team that values collaboration, accountability, and meaningful results. Office perks: Enjoy free, healthy lunches when working from the Riga office. Employee merchandise: Design and order your own merchandise through company platforms with an employee discount. Team-building and social events: Participate in engaging team activities and memorable celebrations that strengthen connections across the organization. Meaningful technical impact: Help shape engineering strategy, develop talented teams, and build scalable technology that supports commerce and enables businesses to grow.