Engineering Manager - Hybrid

The role

The Engineering Manager leads a product team's engineering side by managing engineer performance, growth, and day-to-day execution. You will own engineering capacity, sprint planning, and process quality while also delivering code. You will work closely with a Product Design Manager and a Tech Lead to ensure high-quality, predictable delivery.

What you will do

• Plan and manage sprint or cycle capacity
• Track delivery progress and surface risk or slippage early
• Act as the primary escalation path to remove blockers
• Run regular 1:1s, progress SDPs, and set goals
• Manage performance issues directly and constructively
• Deliver code consistently to stay sharp and maintain credibility
• Hold the line on engineering process standards
• Communicate delivery status to stakeholders proactively
• Stay aligned with the PDM on priorities and sequencing
• Escalate to the PGM when decisions or resources are beyond team control

Required qualifications

• Experience managing or leading a team of engineers, with direct reports or clear equivalent responsibility
• Strong delivery management across capacity planning, work breakdown, estimation, tracking, and early risk escalation
• Current, hands-on coding ability
• Hands-on background in Javascript / TypeScript, Node.js, Angular or React, MongoDB
• Track record of growing engineers through feedback, goal setting, and career development
• Willingness to handle underperformance directly and constructively
• Comfort operating in shared accountability with product counterparts
• Jira or an equivalent planning and tracking tool
• Confluence or equivalent documentation practice
• AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)

Nice to have

• Experience in a scale-up or high-growth product environment
• Experience managing distributed or multi-timezone teams
• Experience improving engineering process such as sprint cadence, release process, or on-call
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development workflows
• AWS
• Observability tooling (Clickstack, Datadog, Bugsnag, Sentry)

Benefits

• Competitive, performance-based remuneration
• Equity options
• 20 days of paid annual leave, plus sick, carer’s, and compassionate leave
• Paid parental leave - 16 weeks for primary carers, 6 weeks for secondary carers
• Professional growth budget and a transparent career development framework
• Laptop and home-office setup budget
• Flexible work - remote or hybrid, plus the ability to work from anywhere for a few weeks each year
• Weekly team lunches, global offsites, and signature Life Story sessions
• Micro-roasted coffee bar, on-site parking & bike storage, wellness & mothers rooms

About the company

Sitemate builds software and AI agents for the built world, helping construction, infrastructure and industrial companies work smarter and faster. The company is backed by Blackbird and has 200 people across 18+ countries.