Location
Our House Engineering Manager will be an integral part of our Engineering Leadership team in EMEA. This role is based remotely in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Estonia or Israel.
Who We Are
DoiT is a global technology company that works with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud to drive business growth and innovation. We combine data, technology, and human expertise to ensure our customers operate in a well-architected and scalable state - from planning to production.
Delivering DoiT Cloud Intelligence, the only solution that integrates advanced technology with human intelligence, we help our customers solve complex multicloud problems and drive efficiency.
With decades of multicloud experience, we have specializations in Kubernetes, GenAI, CloudOps, and more. An award-winning strategic partner of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, we work alongside more than 4,000 customers worldwide.
The Opportunity
The House Engineering Manager is a hands-on leadership role centered on enablement and delivery. Your primary responsibility is to ensure the House consistently delivers on its commitments by unblocking engineers, maintaining focus, and creating an environment where the team can perform at its highest potential.This is a technical role: you are expected to review engineering work, provide clear technical direction, and contribute to the codebase when needed.The balance between technical contribution and leadership depends on the team’s context, but your overarching mandate is to enable the team and own the execution and delivery of the House by having in-depth understanding and to be able to in-practice be hands-on on the team domain.
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Responsibilities
Team leadership
- Leading a team of 5 to 10 engineers
- Driving ceremonies and the day-to-day operations of the team.
- Be the enabler of the team, ensure team members are unblocked as quickly as possible and that they are clear about what they need to deliver and on the value that the delivery will bring to our users.
- You are responsible for the professional well-being and career development of team members
- Successful team leadership is about ensuring team members succeed in their roles. As such, you will manage team member performance and provide continuous feedback and mentoring.
Technical leadership
- You will help ensure high-quality production releases by actively supporting the engineering release process, monitoring deployments, and upholding the standards of the Production branch
- You and your team members are expected to review pull requests thoroughly and provide clear, actionable, and constructive feedback that elevates the team’s technical quality.
- You will lead and collaborate with the team on technical design discussions, ensuring alignment on architecture and implementation approaches, while maintaining the ability to both oversee high-level technical activities and dive deep into hands-on details when needed.
- You will drive and own the technical roadmap of the team, assessing technical debts and assuring that the components of the team are scaling and are in healthy state
- AI-Driven mindset is required and as a leader you will be expected to keep evolving the team around AI driven development.
Roadmap & delivery
- You will work closely with the Technical Product Owner and UI/UX Designer to define, plan, and structure each sprint, ensuring priorities are well understood and that the house commits to a focused, valuable, and achievable delivery. You are expected to understand the broader business objectives behind the work, translate this context for the team, and ensure that engineering efforts clearly align with those objectives.
- As part of your delivery ownership, you and the Technical Product Owner will plan for incoming business needs and maintain a house level roadmap that is aligned with product and reflects both near-term priorities and longer-term direction.
- You and the Technical Product Owner will balance sprint commitments with customer-facing responsibilities by driving the resolution of incoming support tickets, setting clear expectations for timelines, and prioritizing effectively so that customer needs are addressed while maintaining healthy sprint execution.
- Follow a AI-Driven software development lifecycle, having human driving design and assuring quality while having AI running the implementation (engineers own, plan, review and AI executes).
- Day-to-day communication and collaboration
- Upwards: Communicate clearly and succinctly, giving leadership the right level of context and prioritizing escalations based on well-gathered, relevant information.
- Downwards: Empower Senior Engineers to own key areas of the product and coach team members through their daily interactions to stay focused, intentional, and aware of their impact.
- Sideways: Collaborate effectively with other Houses, raising challenges and opportunities in a clear, constructive manner to support cross-team alignment, stability, and shared understanding.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading an engineering team (typically 5+ engineers) in a delivery-focused environment (3+ Years)
- Past experience as a software engineer for at least 5+ years.
- Strong hands-on technical background with the ability to review code, guide design decisions, and dive deep when needed.
- Experience owning delivery and execution, including sprint planning, backlog management, and release readiness.
- AI-Driven mindset, defaulting to AI while ensuring quality and consistency
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers through regular feedback and performance management.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate business context into clear technical direction for the team.
- Experience working in a SaaS, cloud-native, or distributed systems environment.
Technical Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (backend services, APIs, real-time systems).
- Strong hands-on experience with React (complex state management, performance optimization, large-scale front-end applications).
- Deep understanding of modern web architecture, including SPA frameworks, client-server communication patterns, and browser performance considerations.
- Solid experience designing and operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Practical experience with Kubernetes (K8s), including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals, including:
- VPCs, subnets, routing tables
- Load balancers and ingress controllers
- Security groups and firewall rules
- DNS and service discovery
- Clear understanding of network plumbing across clouds and VPCs, including:
- Cross-cloud connectivity patterns
- Peering, private links, VPNs, and hybrid networking
- Identity and access boundaries across providers
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or similar.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency, availability, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Strong knowledge of system reliability, performance tuning, and production incident management.
Bonus Points
- Experience in cloud native applications
- Hands-on experience with more than a single cloud provider
- Background in scaling teams, processes, or technical systems as the organization grows.
Are you a Do’er?
Be your truest self. Work on your terms. Make a difference.
We are home to a global team of incredible talent who work remotely and have the flexibility to have a schedule that balances your work and home life. We embrace and support leveling up your skills professionally and personally.
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Full-time employee benefits include:
- Unlimited Vacation
- Flexible Working Options
- Health Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- Home Office Allowance
- Professional Development Stipend
- Peer Recognition Program
Many Do’ers, One Team
DoiT unites as Many Do’ers, One Team, where diversity is more than a goal—it's our strength. We actively cultivate an inclusive, equitable workplace, recognizing that each unique perspective enhances our innovation. By celebrating differences, we create an environment where every individual feels valued, contributing to our collective success.
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