Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

About This Opportunity

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai is representing a confidential technology company seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d) to lead multiple engineering teams building cloud-based platform solutions. This role combines people leadership with technical leadership, requiring deep expertise in backend systems while managing teams across the full stack.

You will grow high-performing teams, define best practices, and remain hands-on in critical technical decisions to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and performant in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams, providing vision, direction, and coaching to managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors
• Drive engineering execution and on-time delivery of secure, performant, and customer-centric systems
• Oversee and contribute to the design and development of high-scale, high-performance distributed production systems
• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to define and execute the technology roadmap
• Establish and evolve engineering best practices, delivery processes, and quality standards to scale effectively
• Mentor and develop engineering leaders, fostering career growth, leadership depth, and technical excellence
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies, bringing innovative approaches to improve scalability, architecture, and developer experience
• Champion privacy by design, security-first principles, and high-quality engineering across backend and frontend systems

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Proven track record of leading engineering organizations in global, high-growth environments while driving on-time delivery of high-quality systems at scale
• Strong leadership skills: coaching, mentoring, developing leaders, and fostering high-performing, inclusive teams
• Ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution, aligning engineering teams with business outcomes
• Strong knowledge of TypeScript/Node.js for backend development
• Experience with React/Next.js and/or Flutter, demonstrating solid understanding of modern web and/or mobile development practices
• Proven success in designing, deploying, and scaling microservices in cloud environments, specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Advocacy for privacy, security, cryptography, and resilient system design
• Skill at balancing technical leadership and people leadership, growing teams while staying engaged in critical technical decisions
• Excellence at cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and security stakeholders
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving startup environments, building autonomous teams that experiment, learn, and deliver at speed

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Dart; familiarity with C#, Go, or similar languages
• Backend expertise in RUST
• Experience with asynchronous cryptography and identity/authentication domains
• Expertise in decentralized identity solutions
• Experience building systems with advanced cryptography requirements
• Experience working across functions, locations, and time zones

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and schedule an initial screening call to discuss your background and the opportunity in detail. If there's a strong mutual fit, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that candidates should not contact the client directly during this process—we will coordinate all communications and next steps on your behalf.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Equal Opportunity

Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunity throughout our recruitment process.