Key Facts

Remote From:

EMEA

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Mentorship
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Accountability
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Communication
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Time Management
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Teamwork
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Mental Stability
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Empathy
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Coaching
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Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on knowledge across technologies such as .NET, C#, Node.js, Azure, TypeScript, Vue.js, React, Entity Framework
2+ years in an engineering lead or management role in a software development company
Experience with agile/lean delivery practices and ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams without sacrificing quality
Strong communicator capable of technical architecture discussions, stakeholder updates, and delivering difficult conversations with directness and empathy

Requirements:

Own hiring, onboarding, development, and retention of engineers; conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, identify skill gaps, and foster accountability and psychological safety
Own the team's capacity planning across active projects; assign resources, remove blockers quickly, and maintain engineering standards and Definition of Done
Collaborate with Head of Product Management to align priorities; translate business goals into technical context and transparently communicate constraints to stakeholders
Own engineering processes, track delivery metrics, run retrospectives, manage technical debt, and surface risks to leadership

Argos Multilingual

E-learning

About Argos Multilingual

Argos Multilingual provides global language solutions. With over 30 years of experience, we serve clients in the high-tech, life sciences, human resources, and financial industries. We make it easy for businesses to grow globally and connect with expert talent anywhere in the world. With production centers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, we follow a strategy of building robust programs for continuous translation and localization. You can expect a long-term and transparent partnership, backed by innovative solutions around technology, AI & data, creative content, and quality assurance. We are committed to giving you freedom of choice while providing customized strategies to fit your business needs, and we are ISO 9001, ISO 17100, EN ISO 13485, and ISO 27001 certified.

Company type: SME

Industry: E-learning

Founded: 2018

Company size: 201 - 500

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Job description

The Engineering Manager is responsible for the health, performance and output of the Software Development team ensuring the team has the clarity, capability and environment to do their best work consistently across multiple concurrent projects. This is a player-coach role in smaller teams, meaning the Engineering Manager may contribute technically but the primary accountability is the team output.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & People Development

Own the hiring, onboarding, development, and retention of engineers.
Conduct regular 1:1s with each direct report focused on growth, blockers, and wellbeing — not only status updates.
Set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and conduct formal reviews.
Identify skill gaps in the team and address them through hiring, training, or mentoring.
Build a team culture of accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

Delivery & Execution

Own the team's capacity planning across all active projects — ensure workload is realistic and sustainable.
Assign resources per project and ensure every active piece of work has a clear owner.
Remove blockers quickly — whether they are technical, interpersonal or organizational.
Maintain engineering standards: code review practices, testing expectations, CI/CD hygiene, documentation.
Ensure the team's Definition of Done - means deployed and verified.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Work closely with the Head of Product Management to align on priorities, scope, and sequencing.
Represent the team's capacity and technical constraints honestly to stakeholders — push back on unrealistic commitments.
Translate business goals into technical context for the team; translate technical complexity back to stakeholders in plain language.
Participate in project charter creation to validate that estimates and scope are grounded in reality.

Process & Continuous Improvement

Own the team's engineering processes — standups, sprint rhythms, retrospectives, incident reviews.
Track and act on delivery metrics: cycle time, estimate accuracy, bug rates, deployment frequency.
Run project retrospectives and feed learnings back into future planning.
Proactively identify and manage technical debt before it becomes a delivery risk.

Reporting & Visibility

Provide regular, honest progress updates to leadership across all active projects.
Surface risks early — never let stakeholders be surprised by a missed deadline or descoped deliverable.
Maintain a clear view of team utilization and flag when the portfolio of work exceeds sustainable capacity.

Qualifications

Education, skills, and experience

5+ years of experience in Software Engineering with meaningful technical knowledge in technologies such as .NET, C#, Node.js, Azure, TypeScript, Vue.js, React, Entity Framework, etc.
2+ years of experience in an engineering lead or management role in a software development company.
Experience with agile/lean delivery practices.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams without losing quality.
Strong communicator who is equally comfortable with technical architecture discussions and stakeholder updates.
Able to have difficult conversations about performance, scope, timelines with directness and empathy.