Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, onboard, and grow a team of engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, performance reviews, and career planning. Build a safe, inclusive, and high-performing team environment that promotes psychological safety and continuous learning. Partner with peer leaders to set clear technical direction and strategy for your team and product area, ensuring it aligns with business objectives.

Participate in architectural decisions and maintain awareness of technical debt and system health across your domain. Ensure sustainable and predictable delivery by empowering your team, identifying and removing blockers, and proactively managing risks. Track and improve team velocity, code quality, and delivery predictability while maintaining sustainable work practices.

Set clear expectations and goals, provide regular feedback, identify skill gaps, and make difficult personnel decisions when necessary. Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, development processes, team rituals, and knowledge sharing across your product area. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders across Finnomena to define goals, prioritize work, and translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of software development experience, with significant time spent leading and managing engineering teams. Applied knowledge of software engineering best practices such as testing, documentation, and code reviews, with a track record of shipping high-quality work. Strong project management skills, with proven experience leading complex engineering efforts to delivery while keeping the team healthy.

Experience setting technical strategy for an organization and driving the technical transformation needed across teams. Demonstrated track record of coaching, mentoring, and growing engineers and leaders across multiple levels. Experience cultivating a strong engineering culture in an iterative, agile, and rapid-growth environment.

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical constraints and opportunities to non-technical stakeholders. Strong critical thinking under pressure, with the ability to spot the biggest pain points in a system or product and propose solutions with clear deliverables and milestones.

Self-motivated, naturally curious, and passionate about teamwork, with a love for developing great people, not just great products.