Engineering Manager, EMEA (Core)
$500,000–$500,000 year
RemoteEmea, Sulawesi Tengah, Republic of Indonesia
Job Summary
Lead the core platform team by spending 20–30% of time on hands-on engineering, including writing production code, reviewing critical pull requests, and signing off on technical designs. Drive the design and delivery of agentic workflows that plan, execute, and adapt testing work, while modernizing legacy services to establish a solid transactional foundation. Set multi-quarter technical direction, partner with product on roadmap sequencing, and own delivery from concept to production. Establish engineering operating rhythms, manage production escalations, and define service level objectives to ensure reliability. Coach engineers on technical excellence and integrate AI-assisted development into daily practice.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years managing a team of 4+ engineers in an agile, remote environment
- Recent experience writing production code and designing or evolving production systems
- Comfortable working directly in the codebase, contributing to implementation, reviewing code, and making architectural decisions alongside your team
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic features in production (orchestration, tool use, retrieval, evaluation)
- Strong affinity with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, and React
- Experience designing and building APIs
- Familiarity with GraphQL and Kafka
- Experience with observability and APM tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Sentry) and optimizing slow database transactions
- Knowledge of application security best practices and integrating security review into the SDLC
- Experience modernizing legacy systems or paying down significant technical debt while keeping a product running
- Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work effectively with product management and cross-functional partners in a distributed, asynchronous setting
- Meticulous approach to standards and process
- Passion for team productivity, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Data-driven decision-making
- 100% remote work capability
- Residing in the EMEA region
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading a team into a new technical domain quickly
- SaaS experience
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