Engineering Manager

As our engineering team expands across Estonia, Romania, and the wider EU, we are shifting from ad-hoc growth to a structured two-team domain model. Tech leads own technical direction and delivery managers own process—your mandate is ensuring the engineers building the platform have clear growth paths, strong mentorship, and high-performing team dynamics. Without this role, scaling across distributed hubs risks bottlenecking delivery and stalling engineer development.

You will take end-to-end ownership of people management, hiring, and team operating models across two engineering domain teams.

• Lead regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and tailored career development plans for engineers across two domain teams.
• Own hiring and onboarding processes to bring on high-caliber engineers and get them fully productive quickly.
• Partner with the CTO to design our core engineering operating model, including career ladders and feedback mechanisms.
• Collaborate with tech leads and delivery managers to eliminate blockers and maintain sustainable team pace.
• Participate in system design reviews and evaluate trade-offs without stepping on tech lead technical ownership.

• 3+ years managing software engineers directly as a people manager in product teams.
• Technical background with the ability to read code and follow software architecture discussions.
• Proven track record hiring and rapidly onboarding distributed software engineers.
• Experienced leading remote and multi-location engineering teams across the European Union.
• Strong written communicator who documents decisions clearly and addresses hard feedback early.
• Professional fluency in English; Estonian language skills are an asset.

Decision-driven culture rooted in kindness, transparency, professionalism, and loyalty. Relies on thorough written documentation to prevent relitigating decisions, where pushback is handled directly and constructive feedback is delivered openly across distributed teams.

• Direct partnership with the CTO to define a brand-new engineering management function.
• High-autonomy environment with senior peers, direct feedback, and minimal red tape.
• Flexible setup based out of Tallinn or remote across the EU with occasional HQ travel.
• A decision-driven culture valuing thorough documentation, radical transparency, and kindness.

Engineering Management · People Management · Technical Leadership · Distributed Team Leadership · .NET · Software Architecture · Estonian

This probably isn't for you if:

• You want to act as the primary architect or dictate technical solutions over your tech leads.
• You avoid direct, constructive feedback or struggle to manage distributed team dynamics asynchronously.
• You rely on verbal consensus instead of thorough written documentation to make and align on decisions.

If you are an empathetic, technically grounded leader ready to shape how our engineering organization grows, apply now to start the conversation directly with our CTO.