Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Full Time
Lisbon, Portugal
1 month ago
Location

hybrid in Lisbon (3 home office days per week)

SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY WITH USERCENTRICS

You are a visionary leader with exceptional communication skills, guiding our teams by setting a strong example! 

You demonstrate a deep sense of ownership and strike the perfect balance between people management and technological excellence, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. 

You are results-oriented and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes, ensuring that our teams meet and exceed their goals.

Your Tasks

  • Team Building and Development: Cultivates, coaches, and grows high-performing, happy teams.

  • Leadership and Culture: Leads by example to foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and technical excellence.

  • Solution & Engineering Strategy: Designs and enhances solutions with a focus on user experience, quality, security, sustainability, reliability, delivery, engineering, and performance.

  • Influences with a collaborative, proactive attitude, driving innovation within teams and the company.

  • Leads development teams by removing obstacles, building capabilities, and fostering a culture of excellence and well-being.

  • Enhances processes, agility, frameworks, and team dynamics to strengthen company culture.

  • Recruits, develops, coaches, and retains talented team members while effectively managing underperformance.

  • Provides mentorship and guidance on technical contributions, product development, architecture, and best practices.

  • Ensures the quality, security, and performance of products.Maintains a user-centric approach, ensuring products are accessible, easy to use, and exceed user expectations.

  • Collaborates closely with Product Managers to innovate, deliver, and implement optimal solutions for the business.

  • Takes ownership of roadmap planning, deadlines, and deliverables to ensure timelines are met.

  • Remains deeply informed about the product’s architecture and components.

  • Removes obstacles to support development progress, allowing focus on coding and delivery.

  • Manages team performance, supports growth, and addresses underperformance as needed.

You Bring

  • Fluent English

  • Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a leadership role.

  • Technical Skills: Strong coding background (e.g., Java, Node, JavaScript) and familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

  • Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams; experience in setting goals and driving performance.

  • Project Management: Skilled in Agile methodologies, managing multiple projects, and meeting deadlines.

  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills; adept at explaining technical concepts to various stakeholders.

  • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making.

  • Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees or certifications are a plus.

Why join Usercentrics?

  • Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
  • Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
  • Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
  • Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
  • We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online
  • You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being