Hello everyone!

 

Our client is a well-established product company that builds high-load platforms used by millions of users in Ukraine every day.

 

It operates:

•   a large news aggregation ecosystem supporting freedom of speech and content diversity,

•   a high-availability email platform serving over a million daily users,

•  and a weather service delivering real-time forecasts and alerts at a national scale.

 

The team works with complex distributed systems, high availability, and significant traffic volumes. The product is mission-critical and require high availability, strong security, and a strong engineering culture.

 

We are looking for a technically hands-on Engineering Manager role with 50% Process Ownership, 40% People Management, 10% Technical Leadership. It is a strong technical leader role with a factual engineering background, not a coordination-only role.

 

You will work with two in-house product engineering teams, responsible for mission-critical services.

 

What professional skills are important for us?

•  3-5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead/Head of Engineering with people management;

•  Strong hands-on engineering background;

•  Experience leading engineering teams in production environments;

•  Proven delivery, ownership, and incident management experience;

•  Provide technical leadership and contribute to architectural decisions;

•  Proven experience in people development (conducting regular 1-on-1s, defining and executing PDPs, performance reviews, and feedback cycles); 

•  Experience working closely with product and business stakeholders;

 

Nice to have:

•  Experience with high-load or mission-critical systems; 

•  Strong understanding of system performance, reliability, and security;

•  Experience working with multiple teams in parallel;

 

Tasks:

•  Own end-to-end delivery pipeline: from architecture decisions, code commit to production deployment, including testing strategy and deployment;

•  Define and maintain a clear Definition of Done;

•  Review and validate technical and architectural decisions;

•  Participate hands-on when needed (code review, validation, technical deep dives);

•  Validate proposed solutions with a focus on performance, reliability, and security;

•  Establish testing and deployment standards; drive process improvements Identify and manage technical and delivery risks; build an ownership culture;

•  Contribute to overall engineering standards and practices;

•  Establish an engineering metrics system to track performance and technical debt;

•  Lead incident management, conduct post-mortems, and drive preventive measures;

•  Establish SLA/SLO framework, monitoring practices, and operational readiness standards;

•  Collaborate with System Engineering and security teams on reliability, monitoring, and security topics;

•  Directly manage all engineers on product teams, conduct performance reviews, and monitor team health;

•  Own engineering operations and make team structure decisions;

•  Drive engineer growth through regular feedback, one-on-ones, coaching sessions, and developing technical and leadership skills;

•  Participate in hiring and onboarding engineers;

•  Contribute to role definitions and career progression frameworks;

•  Support a culture of continuous learning and improvement;

 

Conditions: 

• Probation period: 3 months;

• Flexible work format: office/hybrid / fully remote;

• Paid vacation: 20 working days per year;

• Sick leave:Up to 10 days per year — 100% paid; 11 to 20 days per year — 50% paid;

• Health insurance: private medical insurance (DMS) provided after probation;

• Annual review of terms, including compensation;

 

Hiring process:

1. Call with the recruiter;

2. Pre-screening with HR;

3. Tech interview;

4. Independent Consultant Interview;

5. HR Deep Dive Interview;

6. Reference check;

7. Job offer;