Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager
[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.
Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 220 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders, earned 145k+ GitHub stars, ranking among the world’s Top 40 most popular projects, been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100), and raised $240m to date.
Your main goal will be to build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving AI-native world - developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment.
Build an empowered, high-performing team
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.
- Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at [Employer hidden].
Create clarity and confidence as the landscape evolves
- Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.
- Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.
- Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.
Drive execution with speed, judgment, and alignment
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
- Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.
- Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Lead with technical credibility
- Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.
- Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.
- Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.
Requirements
Must-haves
- First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization.
- Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
- Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve.
- Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers.
- Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team.
- Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders.
- High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company.
Nice-to-haves
- TypeScript / Node.js familiarity
- Open-source or developer tooling interest
- AI product exposure
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Ownership with equity
- Work/life balance: 30 days vacation (Europe) / 20 days (US) plus public holidays
- Health & wellness benefits
- Future planning: pension or 401(k) with match
- Financial security: disability and life insurance
- Career growth: €1K per year for learning
- Passionate team with regular hackathons
- Remote-first
- Giving back: $100 per month for open source
- AI enablement: unlimited AI budget
- Transparency
- Ambitious but kind culture
[Employer hidden] is an equal opportunity employer. We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.