Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Miaplaza, a company dedicated to creating engaging and accessible online learning platforms, as an Engineering Manager! In this role, you will lead and grow 1-2 teams of engineers (8-12 engineers), collaborating with product and design teams to achieve company goals. You will review technical designs, contribute to architecture decisions, and foster a positive team culture. This position requires strong technical skills in C#/.NET and modern web application development, along with experience in technical leadership and mentoring. The role offers a competitive salary (80,000€ - 200,000€/year), remote work flexibility, and a learning and development budget. Miaplaza is committed to building an inclusive workplace and offers various benefits for employees.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development experience
• 1-2 years in a technical leadership or people management role
• Strong experience with C#/.NET (or similar object-oriented languages) and modern reactive web application development (Vue3, React, etc)
• Strong understanding of clean architecture, domain-driven design, and testable code
• Strong experience mentoring engineers
• Experience with migration patterns
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams across time zones
• Be a proactive and driven self-starter

Responsibilities

• Manage, support, and grow 1-2 teams of engineers (8-12 engineers)
• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering leaders to define team goals and priorities that align with company initiatives
• Review technical designs and contribute to architecture decisions to ensure scalable and maintainable systems, considering short and long-term trade-offs
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing team culture based on trust, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
• Mentor engineers in areas such as clean architecture, domain modeling, design patterns, testing, and overall engineering best practices
• Facilitate team rituals such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and 1:1s

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing teams, building external-facing products serving users at scale
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
• Experience with application security or DevSecOps
• Passion for education, learning platforms, and student-centered technology

Benefits

• Work from anywhere with significant overlap with Central European Time (CET)
• Flexible work environment
• Learning & development budget, including conferences and company offsites
• If hired as an employee, all legally required benefits, including vacation, sick leave, healthcare, etc