Engineering Manager
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- At least 2 years
- Required Skills
- Node.jsArtificial IntelligenceProduct ManagementTypeScriptSoftware EngineeringSaaS
Requirements
- First-line engineering management experience for at least 2 years directly leading engineers in a growing product organization, with experience balancing execution, quality, and team health.
- Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
- Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.
- Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
- Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.
- Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
- High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.
- TypeScript / Node.js familiarity (nice-to-have)
- Open-source or developer tooling interest (nice-to-have)
- AI product exposure (nice-to-have)
Responsibilities
- Build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving AI-native world - developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.
- Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n.
- Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.
- Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.
- Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
- Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.
- Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.
- Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.
- Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.
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