Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

🕒 April 21

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Secfix

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11 - 50 employees

📋 Compliance

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

Compliance • Cybersecurity • SaaS

Secfix is a company that specializes in automating compliance processes for businesses to help them achieve and maintain security standards such as ISO 27001, TISAX, and GDPR. By utilizing integrations with cloud providers, SSO, HR systems, and ticketing tools, Secfix streamlines the compliance workflow, reducing manual effort by up to 90%. The platform offers features like automated checklists, risk management, vendor management, and policy management, making it easier for startups and SMEs to stay secure and compliant. Secfix is particularly beneficial for small companies seeking ISO 27001 certification, offering support to ensure a smooth and fast compliance journey. The company is based in Europe and prioritizes data protection with GDPR compliance and strict data encryption policies.

📋 Description

• Month 1: Become a strong IC. Get into the codebase, ship a meaningful feature, and prove to yourself and the team that you can build at the level we need. You don't need to be the best senior engineer on day one, but you should be onboarded and delivering high-quality work fast enough that you can credibly help others improve. Expect to spend 70–80% of your time writing code. • Month 2: Own hiring. Beyond continued IC contributions, take over engineering interviews and build a better technical interview process. The current setup depends too many people. You'll design technical challenges, run screens, and make hiring more consistent and repeatable. This matters — we're planning to double the team in the next 12 months. • Month 3: Start leading. Help design a pragmatic way to evaluate team performance — simple, measurable, not bureaucratic. Start doing more regular 1:1s with each team member, focused on three things: output x impact, quality, and AI efficiency. Identify who's behind and help them improve. Remove obstacles from top performers. • Over time, the balance shifts. Coding goes from 70% to 10–20%. Hiring becomes the plurality of your work, we’ll grow the team from 5 engineers to 9 in the next months (50–70% during active hiring, 20–30% after). Mentorship and process improvement grow as the team grows. But you never fully stop building — you stay in the code enough to have credible technical judgment.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend/product engineering experience, with a track record of owning large, complex systems end-to-end — at principal engineer level or equivalent • Some engineering management experience (1–3 years) — you've done 1:1s, performance conversations, and hiring. Ideally at a similar stage company • Strong hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude), you experimented a lot and know what works, what doesn’t • OOP fundamentals. Some experience with Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, or equivalent • Experience building or integrating AI/ML features in production. Practical experience working with LLMs and RAG-based systems • Experience leading system design on significant projects, not just contributing to them • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills. You're the person people pull in when something is broken and nobody knows why • Relational database design and SQL optimisation • Experience designing technical interviews and evaluating senior engineering candidates • Strong written and in-person communication; comfortable working in a remote, in-sync-first culture • Startup experience. You know what building at this stage feels like • Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST). EMEA-based, ideally Germany

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote: 100% remote with a real virtual office in Gather • Salary: Competitive, benchmarked to European market rates (we'll share specifics once we talk) • Equity: Generous package — we're all owners here • Development budget: €1,000/year — yours to spend on whatever makes you better • Workspace: Remote workspace support + co-working access • Holidays: 26 days + local public holidays • Health insurance: Comprehensive coverage • Annual retreat: Last time we went to Costa Brava 🇪🇸 — before that, Austrian Alps, Portugal, Italy, and the Spanish Islands • Tech: MacBook, monitors, headphones — the latest