Engineering Manager

Role Description

• As the Engineering Manager, you're responsible for the people, delivery, technical health, and operational ownership of one or more feature teams within Sendcloud Engineering.
• Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, senior engineers, Platform teams, and other stakeholders to define team goals, shape priorities, and deliver meaningful product outcomes for customers.
• Your mission is to create an environment where engineers do their best work, teams have clarity and ownership, and delivery stays predictable without compromising quality, reliability, or long-term maintainability.
• You lead through context, coaching, and accountability — helping the team understand the "why," challenging priorities when needed, removing blockers, and making sure what you build scales with the business.

🎯 What you'll do

• Strategy & Organisation: Translate Product and Tech strategy into clear team goals, improve team structure and ways of working, and keep the team aligned with engineering standards and organisational priorities.
• People & Hiring: Lead, coach, and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and retention.
• Delivery & Execution: Own end-to-end delivery for your team(s), manage scope and risks, remove blockers, and drive predictable execution without compromising quality.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the main engineering partner for Product and Design, co-own planning and prioritisation, challenge decisions constructively, and communicate progress and risks clearly to stakeholders.
• Technical Direction & Quality: Partner with senior engineers to guide architecture, engineering standards, code quality, documentation, test automation, and technical debt management.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the team owns its services in production, including observability, incident management, post-mortems, runbooks, SLOs, security, privacy, and compliance-related work.
• Continuous Improvement: Use team metrics, delivery insights, incidents, and retrospectives to improve team performance, collaboration, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
• Budget & Cost Awareness: Manage team-level tool, activity, and cloud/resource usage responsibly, and propose investments where they create clear value for the team or business.

🎉 Benefits

💸 Salary - From €90,000 gross annually, inclusive of 8% holiday pay (based on your specific skillset and professional background).

🧠 Brain Benefits - €2,000 learning budget · Courses, certifications & conferences · Growth in an international team

🌴 Time Benefits - 28 days of paid vacations per year · Extra day off on your birthday · Swap public holidays for meaningful ones

✈️ Sabbatical Benefits - 4 weeks fully paid every 3 years

🏡 Home Benefits - Flexible hybrid model (3+ days/week in office) · €500 home office budget

💪 Body Benefits - Company gym · Free lunch every Monday · Fresh fruit · Barista coffee

🚌 Travel Benefits - Monthly commuting allowance

🪑 Future Benefits - Pension scheme · Employee discount programs

🐾 Vibe Benefits - Dog-friendly office · After-hours drinks at the Sendcloud Bar