Engineering Manager – Cloud-Native Backend Systems
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Engineering Manager leading cloud-native backend teams for Salve.Inno Consulting’s recruitment clients. Guiding architecture, delivery, reliability, and engineer development across AI-enabled products.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, support and develop a team of software engineers
- Take responsibility for team performance, delivery and engineering quality
- Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, performance reviews and career-development conversations
- Recruit, onboard and retain engineering talent
- Establish clear goals, expectations and ownership within the team
- Work with Product Owners to define priorities, scope and delivery plans
- Translate product and business requirements into engineering outcomes
- Remain involved in system design and architectural decisions
- Guide development of scalable microservices and distributed backend systems
- Review technical proposals and challenge engineering decisions
- Support engineers resolving complex technical and production issues
- Improve coding, testing and code-review standards
- Strengthen CI/CD, observability, documentation and operational practices
- Promote system reliability, scalability, maintainability and security
- Identify technical debt and balance platform improvements with product delivery
- Coordinate dependencies and technical decisions across engineering teams
- Create an environment of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Contribute hands-on to prototypes, technical investigations or critical issues when required
Requirements:
- At least 8 years of professional software-engineering experience
- At least 3 years of experience leading or managing software-engineering teams
- Proven experience with direct people management, including performance management, development and hiring
- Strong technical background in backend software development
- Recent technical experience with at least one backend language such as Java, Python or Go
- Strong understanding of microservices and distributed-system architecture
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS or Azure
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Good understanding of APIs, databases, asynchronous processing and event-driven architecture
- Experience establishing engineering standards, code-review practices and testing strategies
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability and production operations
- Experience managing delivery in a product-led or agile engineering environment
- Ability to balance people leadership, technical quality and delivery expectations
- Confidence working with senior engineers, architects, Product Owners and business stakeholders
- Strong written and spoken English (C1+)
- Based within the European Union and able to work on a B2B contract
Benefits:
- Fully remote work within the European Union
- Long-term B2B engagement
- Genuine influence over architecture, engineering practices and team development
- Work on complex, internationally used AI-enabled products
- Collaboration with experienced engineering, product and cloud specialists
- More than 20 days of paid time off
- Apple equipment
- Training and professional-development budget
- Inclusive, respectful workplace















