Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

The role

You will manage a product engineering team, owning technical decisions, hiring, and software development processes. You will work directly with the CTO to improve team speed, quality, and AI-assisted workflows.

What you will do

• Own technical decisions and set the pace for the team
• Refine software development processes to maintain high velocity
• Improve engineering testing, automation, and code review processes
• Manage team structure, growth conversations, and hiring
• Ship meaningful features with AI alongside the team
• Conduct regular 1:1s focused on output, quality, and AI usage
• Design technical challenges and run the hiring process
• Maintain a zero-bug policy as the team scales

Required qualifications

• 8+ years as a software engineer
• 4+ years managing a team of 8+ and hiring for it yourself
• Shipped AI features to production including retrieval, RAG, or agentic workflows
• Built and shipped with Claude Code and Cursor in real production work
• Senior or principal engineer experience before managing
• Built something zero to one at a startup or scaled a team through the messy middle
• Product taste
• Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST)
• EMEA-based, ideally Germany or UK

Nice to have

• Grown a team to 15+ at a VC-funded startup
• Managed tech leads or a second manager
• Previous experience at a fully remote company

Benefits

• 100% remote with a virtual office in Gather
• Generous equity package
• €1,000/year development budget
• Remote workspace support plus co-working access
• 26 days of holidays plus local public holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Annual retreat
• MacBook, monitors, and headphones

Before you apply

• Intro call with talent team
• Interview with Grigory
• Technical interview
• 1.5 hour AI-assisted build session
• 2 hour leadership session with founders

About the company

Secfix builds security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort. They are a category leader in Europe and have raised €17M in total.