Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Pleo as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a high-performing environment. Collaborate closely with product managers and VPs of Engineering, ensuring alignment with product and business goals. You will manage and mentor engineers, optimize team processes, and represent engineering in key initiatives. This role requires strong communication, technical expertise, and a passion for people management. Pleo offers a supportive and inclusive work environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• Have a passion for people management
• Work to see your team and individuals growing and shipping great software
• Like to work with cross-functional teams and other stakeholders to align engineering functions with product & business direction and goals
• Think like a technologist in the core and optimize for both customers and the business
• Enjoy design and optimization of teams and processes to maximize their efficiency
• Be comfortable stepping into technical discussions or taking important stakeholder meetings to remove roadblocks allowing the team to move forward
• Be a strong communicator, with both technical and commercial stakeholders
• Be a technologist at heart

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the (Group) Product Manager and set a vision and direction for the team or group of product teams
• Directly manage Engineers (and Tech Leads) and oversee a group of ~6-15 engineers
• Drive a customer-centric & solution-oriented mindset
• Continuously improve the environment and processes for how we build our product
• Align technology direction within your area, with other areas as well as with the overall technology direction of the company
• Represent engineering in key initiatives and projects within the department or across the company and ensure they get delivered
• Design the organization, and objectives and hold a high standard in people, delivery, and technology

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• Flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work