Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Level of Education: Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related technical field)
• Level of relevant working experience: Minimum 5 years in software engineering roles, and at least 2 years in a leadership or management position
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices
• Experience with scaling zero to one products
• Strong leadership, coaching, and people development skills
• Delivery/project management and agile methodology fluency
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Growth mindset, data-driven decision-making, and bias for action

What the job involves

• We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of software engineers who are focused on scaling an exciting new product vertical. We are building a complex, intelligent system to modernize the traditional taxi industry. Your goal is to lead the team to transform offline fleets into digital businesses
• This critical role ensures team’s alignment with product and business strategy, while driving efficient delivery of features. You will foster an environment of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous individual development, ultimately maximizing business impact across all Freenow markets through innovation
• Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate colleagues who strive for excellence and enjoy their work. Are you ready for your next ride?
• Team Performance & Delivery: Within the frame of quarterly goals and company strategy, lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus. You inspire innovation to disrupt incumbents
• People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence in building innovative customer and driver support solutions. You get to build a team from the ground up
• Technical Ownership: In collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals, lead technical decision-making for the support systems. Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions, particularly the large-scale systems handling customer and driver interactions
• Strategic Execution: Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans. Align team activities with business priorities, ensuring efficient execution and adapting plans as needed
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the main engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers. Build strong relationships to ensure transparency, challenge product decisions where needed, and jointly maximize business impact by providing world-class support technology
• Culture & Team Building: Foster a team culture based on trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback. Ensure diverse perspectives are heard, encourage curiosity, and build a resilient and motivated team
• Operational Excellence & Incident Management: Own incident response processes for support technology. Ensure alerting and monitoring are in place, bugs are addressed quickly, and technical debt is managed proactively to support long-term sustainability and reliability of the critical customer and driver support infrastructure
• Our Techstack: Java | Kotlin | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka | ElasticSearch & more

Benefits

• Sabbatical leave: Get rewarded for you rhard work with a sabbatical after two years.
• Employee assistance program: Your wellbeing is our priority, anonymous external support is always available.
• Welcome & anniversary gifts: We'll send you a little something to celebrate these special occasions.
• Mobility benefits card: Get from A to B on us. Every month you'll get a mobility budget to try out different transport options.
• Flexible work options: Work as you are and where you want with flexible hours and remote opportunities.
• Talent development: Your growth is important to us. Progress your career with dedicated training courses and regulars development check-ins.
• Birthday off: Celebrate in style with an extra dy off each year.
• Remote work within the EU: Work up to 20 business days every 6 months from all countries in the European Union & Switzerland.