Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager who loves building high-performing teams, raising the bar on engineering excellence, and turning strategy into predictable, high-quality delivery? Does coaching peers, improving CI/CD and observability, and making complexity simple excite you? Do you thrive in a collaborative, product-led environment across multiple brands? 

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager with a passion for delivery excellence, developer experience, empowering their teams, and operational maturity to lead and coach engineering teams across group.one brands, including WP Media and RankMath. 🚀If you answered our questions with yes, keep reading and apply now!

What you will be doing 

You will join group.one’s WordPress-focused product area, directly managing and leading our RankMath Backend & Websites Engineering team, WP Media’s QA team and the BackWPup engineering team.

Those teams handle development and validation of WordPress plugins & websites in PHP, as well as backend services in Node.js. Previous experience with those languages is preferred.
Your specific tasks will be:  

• Establish and improve delivery cadences, planning hygiene, and execution rituals.

• Define, track and improve metrics related to throughput, flow efficiency, and predictability.

• Define and implement testing strategies (unit/integration/e2e), automation coverage, and quality gates.

• Implement observability standards (metrics, logs, traces), SLOs/error budgets, incident response and postmortems.

• Reduce build and feedback times, standardize pipelines, encourage trunk-based development and safe releases.

• Champion paved paths, templates, and tooling that make the right thing the easy thing.

• Coach fellow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to adopt best practices in delivery, quality, and operability; facilitate knowledge sharing, playbooks, and delivery reviews.

• Partner with EMs to identify and remove impediments, refine workflows, and improve planning accuracy and team health.

• Convert product and platform goals into executable roadmaps, capacity forecasts, and release plans.

• Surface risks early, remove impediments, and ensure transparent communication.

• Maintain a living engineering handbook, playbooks, and guardrails; facilitate documentation reviews and enablement forums.

Requirements

• Being Yourself: Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values
• Passion and humbleness: friendly, collaborative, and supportive
• Proficient knowledge of English: Empathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates
• Solid PHP & Python expertise
• Experience in leading  product engineering teams (2-5 years)
• Past experience as developer
• Hands-on mentality if necessary 
• CI/CD, testing, and observability expertise
• Feedback orientation: giving and taking
• Experience in mentoring and coaching
• Nice to have: 
  • SRE, cloud, and security familiarity. Concepts and tools around Kubernetes/containers, cloud platforms, IaC, monitoring/alerting, vulnerability management, and incident response.
  • Experience in the WordPress ecosystem and/or PHP/Nod

What You Should Know About group.one

group.one is a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting, and digital marketing services. Over 2 million customers trust us with their online success. Our global team consists of 1,500+ employees operating from nearly 20 locations across 15 countries, with our headquarters in Sweden. With the support of our partners Cinven and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, we are steadily expanding the group’s service portfolio and geographical footprint.

You will lead engineering across brands including WP Media (behind WP Rocket and Imagify), BackWPup, and RankMath Services, collaborating with talented teams distributed globally.

We are a remote-friendly organization. To facilitate international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+4 and UTC−1. We have flexible working hours and a remote work culture. As part of our collaborative and agile framework, we value clear communication and encourage everyone to participate actively.

Do We Share the Same Values?

Mutual respect, collaboration, and inclusivity.

These are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.

Healthy balance between work and private life.

We encourage our employees to enjoy their family and hobbies with flexible working hours and minimum vacation policy. There are no time cards to stamp, only customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with! We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.

Perks and benefits

We want the people on our team to feel that they always receive what they need to shine. This is why we offer:

• Budget for setting up your home office
• Monthly budget for your remote-work expenses
• Career growth with access to mentorship and learning resources
  
• Annual team gatherings and opportunities to meet colleagues in person

We can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟