Backend Engineering Team Manager
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Backend Engineering Team Manager leading a team of backend engineers at Storyblok. Focused on project execution and promoting collaboration within the engineering department.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and support a team of backend engineers with a focus on delivery, people development, and process improvement.
- Partner with the Senior Backend Engineering Manager to align execution with team vision and strategy.
- Mentor and guide team members in their professional development, while promoting a culture of active coaching within the team.
- Support engineers in making technical decisions while ensuring processes and delivery run effectively.
- Establish delivery estimates, monitor progress, and help the team overcome obstacles and resolve blockers.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to ensure roadmap commitments are delivered iteratively and with customer focus.
- Own recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes to strengthen and grow the team.
- Facilitate regular one-on-one meetings to set goals, evaluate performance, and provide continuous feedback.
- Foster a culture of documentation, knowledge sharing, and open communication.
- Cultivate empathy and openness towards team members from diverse backgrounds, and promote a positive workplace culture.
- Contribute to improving processes in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in advanced software development, including 2+ years of engineering leadership.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Solid backend development background (e.g., Ruby, Python), with enough technical depth to support engineers and understand challenges.
- Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL preferred), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and background processing (e.g., Sidekiq).
- Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and problem-solving, with the ability to guide mid-level and senior engineers.
- Familiarity with testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on maintainability and code quality.
- Understanding of scalability, reliability, observability, and security principles.
- Awareness of incident response practices.
- Proven ability to lead teams in execution — guiding engineers, resolving blockers, and ensuring delivery commitments are met.
- Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Confident, detail-oriented, and highly motivated to contribute to the organization's growth as part of a high-performing team.
Benefits:
- Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity).
- Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…)
- Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding
- Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays
- Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material
- VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan)
- The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
- As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you’ll enjoy flexible schedules
- An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals
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