Engineering Manager - Commodities
On-siteAthens, Attica, Greece
Job Summary
Guide teams through platform transformation to modernize business-critical systems toward a modular, AI-native architecture. Partner with product and domain stakeholders to shape roadmaps around customer value, data quality, and business outcomes. Develop technical leads and senior engineers by delegating decisions while maintaining sufficient technical depth to challenge assumptions and support sound decision-making. Set clear goals, milestones, and delivery rhythms that balance roadmap commitments with technical debt and platform health. Build end-to-end operational ownership including on-call rotation, runbooks, incident response, and follow-up actions. Improve reliability and observability across the cargo data platform by addressing gaps in monitoring, alerting, and data integrity. Lead significant incidents affecting the domain to ensure contributing factors are understood and acted upon. Shape team growth through effective hiring, capability planning, and interviewer development. Develop and retain engineers through coaching, actionable feedback, meaningful goals, and fair performance management.
Required Qualifications
- Experience leading a software engineering team, whether as an Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, acting manager or senior engineer with meaningful responsibility for delivery and the development of others.
- Strong technical foundations in backend, data or distributed systems, with enough depth to review designs, challenge assumptions and coach engineers through complex technical decisions.
- Ability to work effectively with Product, engineering and domain stakeholders to translate business priorities into clear technical and delivery outcomes.
- Experience contributing to the operation of production systems, including on-call practices, incident response, monitoring and follow-up improvements.
- A strong belief in end-to-end engineering ownership, including the reliability, maintainability and operational impact of the systems a team builds.
- A track record of setting clear goals, coordinating delivery and creating accountability within an engineering team.
- Experience supporting the growth and performance of engineers through regular feedback, development goals and constructive handling of difficult situations.
- Some involvement in hiring or technical interviewing, with the ability to assess candidates fairly and provide clear, evidence-based feedback.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading or contributing to the migration, modernisation or re-architecture of a long-lived production system while maintaining continuity for its users.
- Experience with data-intensive, event-driven or ML-adjacent systems, such as data pipelines, Kafka, optimisation engines or systems where data and model correctness are central to the product.
- Familiarity with Python and one or more JVM-based technologies, such as Java or Scala, or experience working effectively in a polyglot environment.
- Experience partnering with Product at roadmap level, helping shape priorities rather than working solely from predefined requirements.
- Experience developing Technical Leads or senior engineers and delegating technical ownership effectively.
- Exposure to domains such as commodities, energy, logistics or financial markets, where data quality, timeliness and operational reliability are particularly important.
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