Engineering Manager (m/f/d) - Enterprise WordPress - Remote

Syde

We are Syde – a 100 % remote world-leading WordPress agency.

Are you a seasoned Engineering Manager (m/f/d) who combines a deep passion for technology with a natural talent for servant leadership? Great! Let’s discover new horizons together!

As an Engineering Manager (m/f/d) at Syde, a substantial part of your job will be ensuring engineers receive support, feedback, and guidance in their professional development and career progression. We value teamwork, open communication, and team well-being. You create an environment where everyone feels encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.

Your responsibilities

Line Management

• Conduct regular check-ins, 1:1 meetings, and feedback/performance reviews with your direct reports.
• Gather and provide professional feedback to your direct reports from their respective project teams, including project managers and delivery leads.
• Offer mentorship first-hand or help find support elsewhere inside or outside the company.
• Be the primary point of contact for your direct reports regarding handling planned and unplanned time off, personal updates, but also any needs or difficulties they may be facing.
• Develop a thorough knowledge of Syde's engineering career ladder and assist your direct reports in setting and achieving progression goals, helping them identify growth and skill development opportunities.
• Regularly review allocations for your direct reports, discussing fit for upcoming projects, skills, and other allocation considerations.

Technical Leadership

• Represent your direct reports, as well as their project teams, in meta-level discussions about team structure, well-being, and professional development.
• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure the engineering discipline remains innovative and competitive.
• Provide continuous technical expertise and guidance to your direct reports and other engineers.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, encouraging the adoption of best practices across the Engineering discipline.
• Contribute to the setting of engineering standards and the maintenance of documentation, tools, and templates.
• Facilitate clear and effective horizontal and vertical communication within the engineering discipline, and between engineering and other relevant departments within the company.
• Participate in project retrospectives and other relevant ceremonies of your direct reports.
• Help ensure a cohesive approach to solution design and development, contributing to the development of the overall engineering strategy, and aligning engineering activities with overall business goals.
• Participate in the hiring process for Engineering Managers and other engineering roles.

Must-haves

• At least two years of experience managing engineers in an international, multicultural agency context.
• Technical background, with past experience of at least five years in software/web engineering, also in technical leadership roles.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers.
• Experience with gathering and delivering constructive feedback.
• Ability to create professional development plans aligning individual and company goals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Growth-oriented, problem-solving, and conflict-navigating skills.
• Availability to work in European timezones (UTC-1 to UTC+3), and occasionally participate in meetings in the LATAM timezone (UTC-7 to UTC-3).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working in a 100% remote working environment.
• Hands-on experience with a technology stack close to ours (WordPress, PHP, JS, React, CMS).
• Technical leadership experience in an international, multicultural agency context.
• Experience with engineering hiring interviews and assessments.
• Experience with Slack, Jira, Confluence, Personio, Leapsome, or Runn.

What we offer

• Work from home (we are 100% remote)
• A supportive Syde culture that appreciates YOU
• Multicultural, globally distributed team
• Flexible working hours
• Annual hardware budget
• Unlimited access to an online learning platform for books, courses, live events, certificate preparations, etc.
• Exciting global enterprise clients like SAP or PayPal
• Working at the heart of WordPress as a partner of WordPress VIP and WooCommerce
• Attend our local team events
• Visit WordCamps with the chance to hold sessions
• Lifelong learning and growth with career advancements
• A dynamic work environment with the encouragement of entrepreneurial thinking and acting

Become a Syder

Send Us Your Applications

Have you become curious and are interested in this opportunity? Then apply at Syde as an Engineering Manager (m/f/d)!

Please send us your resume in English , salary expectations , and the earliest possible starting date .

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