Engineering Manager

The role

You will manage approximately 12 engineers across three product teams. You will focus on people leadership, performance, progression, and hiring while maintaining technical depth to support engineering discussions.

What you will do

• Manage engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching and feedback
• Make expectations clear and help engineers understand performance
• Identify and handle performance issues and difficult conversations
• Support engineers in progressing through career stages
• Own the engineering performance and progression approach
• Review and improve career levels, expectations and review processes
• Make consistent and evidence-based promotion and progression decisions
• Own engineering hiring and define needs before searches begin
• Ensure new engineers have a structured onboarding experience
• Maintain a strong remote engineering culture

Required qualifications

• Experienced Engineering Manager, not a first step into management
• Previous experience directly managing software engineers across more than one team or product area
• Track record of developing engineers at different stages of their careers
• Hands-on experience managing performance including difficult or underperformance situations
• Experience making promotion and progression decisions
• Experience running or improving engineering career frameworks, review cycles or progression processes
• Previous experience hiring software engineers and building effective interview processes
• Engineering background to understand code and contribute to technical conversations
• Judgement to know when to get involved and when to leave technical decisions with Tech Leads
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for a remote environment
• Practical understanding of how AI tools are changing software engineering and experience using them

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby or Rails

Benefits

• Private health insurance for you and your family
• Company pension
• 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of applicable public/statutory holidays
• Learning and development support
• Share options
• Work-from-home budget

Before you apply

• Applications are reviewed as they arrive

About the company

Stora is building the operating platform for modern self-storage businesses. It is a product-led, remote-first company.