Engineering Manager
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Duetto ResearchHospitality Tech, Revenue Management
Croatia, distributed across EMEA and Americas timezones, EMEA, AmericasFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSGraphQLJavaMongoDBSpring BootTypeScriptNext.jsReactCI/CDMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 3+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers in a high-growth environment
- Experience building hiring pipelines from scratch
- Demonstrated career development impact (growing engineers from mid to senior, or senior to staff)
- Performance management experience including difficult feedback, written reviews, and PIPs
- Strong software engineering background, capable of holding conversations about systems design, API design, and data modelling trade-offs
- Working understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven patterns, and CI/CD
- Remote-first leadership experience, building trust and cohesion across timezones
- A clear point of view on what engineering management means in an AI-first organisation
- Experience working with or alongside teams using AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with legacy modernisation (monolith decomposition, migration strategies, re-platforming) (strong candidates)
- Experience with revenue management, dynamic pricing, or B2B SaaS for enterprise hospitality (strong candidates)
- Hands-on knowledge of our stack: Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript/React, Next.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, AWS (strong candidates)
- Exposure to ML or data-intensive systems (real-time analytics, pricing optimisation, low-latency data processing) (strong candidates)
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 5–10 engineers through a live monolith-to-microservices migration, a frontend re-platform, and the shift to AI-first engineering
- Run structured weekly 1:1s focused on growth and wellbeing
- Own the full performance cycle, building hiring pipelines from scratch
- Create psychological safety that lets engineers do their best work
- Own delivery: sprint planning, backlog refinement, roadmap trade-offs with your Product Manager
- Drive technical health: partnering with your Tech Lead on architectural direction, championing observability, documentation, and quality standards
- Lead through transformation: supporting your team through the monolith-to-microservices migration, the BLAST frontend platform shift, and the move to a generate-and-review engineering model
- Build team culture: designing sustainable on-call rotations, managing capacity with care, developing engineers at every seniority level, and modelling the work-life balance
- Contribute to the wider org: shaping hiring standards, participating in engineering guilds, partnering with Product, Design, QE, and DevOps
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