Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

hybrid in Lisbon (3 home office days per week)

You are a visionary leader with exceptional communication skills, guiding our teams by setting a strong example!

You demonstrate a deep sense of ownership and strike the perfect balance between people management and technological excellence, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

You are results-oriented and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes, ensuring that our teams meet and exceed their goals.

• Team Building and Development: Cultivates, coaches, and grows high-performing, happy teams.
• Leadership and Culture: Leads by example to foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Solution & Engineering Strategy: Designs and enhances solutions with a focus on user experience, quality, security, sustainability, reliability, delivery, engineering, and performance.
• Influences with a collaborative, proactive attitude, driving innovation within teams and the company.
• Leads development teams by removing obstacles, building capabilities, and fostering a culture of excellence and well-being.
• Enhances processes, agility, frameworks, and team dynamics to strengthen company culture.
• Recruits, develops, coaches, and retains talented team members while effectively managing underperformance.
• Provides mentorship and guidance on technical contributions, product development, architecture, and best practices.
• Ensures the quality, security, and performance of products.
  Maintains a user-centric approach, ensuring products are accessible, easy to use, and exceed user expectations.
• Collaborates closely with Product Managers to innovate, deliver, and implement optimal solutions for the business.
• Takes ownership of roadmap planning, deadlines, and deliverables to ensure timelines are met.
• Remains deeply informed about the product’s architecture and components.
• Removes obstacles to support development progress, allowing focus on coding and delivery.
• Manages team performance, supports growth, and addresses underperformance as needed.

• Fluent English
• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Technical Skills: Strong coding background (e.g., Java, Node, JavaScript) and familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams; experience in setting goals and driving performance.
• Project Management: Skilled in Agile methodologies, managing multiple projects, and meeting deadlines.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills; adept at explaining technical concepts to various stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Education: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees or certifications are a plus.

• Joining Usercentrics means becoming part of a fast-growing, diverse and international team of tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurially-minded who build our success story together
• Company culture is important to us - we strive to continuously develop a positive, vibrant and inspiring environment that enables everyone to thrive both personally and professionally
• Get involved! We have plenty of initiatives and love to see people from all department enthusiastically participating and shaping our future together in different cross-department projects
• Your work-life balance is important to us too - we offer flexible working hours, hybrid working and the possibility of workcations (in accordance with our company policy)
• We always remember to have fun along the way, both in our day-to-day work and at our regular team events on site in our offices in Munich, Copenhagen, Odense, Lisbon and Prague or online
• You are the most valuable asset to our company which is why we’re happy to offer awesome benefits like our personal development budget, job-related language courses and a lot more (depending on your location) to focus on your well being