Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

Epignosis, a Greek SaaS company with more than two decades of experience in learning technologies, is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead one of its product engineering organisations. The role covers several teams, real ownership of a product line and a leadership group that needs growing, and involves shaping the move from four separate products toward a connected suite. The workplace is hybrid, with 2-3 days per week in the Athens / Heraklion office.

Key responsibilities

• Stay close to the work: read code, join incidents and prototype when it helps understand a problem.
• Own engineering delivery for a product line, working closely with its Product counterpart.
• Lead several teams through their tech leads and managers, rather than managing every engineer directly.
• Grow tech leads into engineering managers through coaching, feedback and difficult conversations.
• Set and hold delivery expectations, and be honest with the business about what is achievable.
• Own team health: hiring, onboarding, performance and the day-to-day conditions for engineers.
• Decide which team owns which system and handle work that crosses boundaries.
• Balance feature delivery against platform health, making trade-offs explicit.
• Work with peers on shared services, standards and the suite architecture.

Required profile

• 5+ years managing software engineers, including managing or coaching other leads or managers.
• Technical depth to engage with architecture decisions and distinguish delivery problems from design problems.
• Experience leading more than one team at once in a product organisation.
• Track record of growing people into better engineers or leaders.
• Comfort with organisational ambiguity and clear written and spoken English.
• Availability for a hybrid setup with 2-3 days per week in the Athens / Heraklion office.

Nice to have

• Team topology experience and a considered view on how teams should be shaped around systems.
• SaaS experience at scale with multi-tenant products.
• Experience through an organisational change such as a restructure or team merger.
• Familiarity with SQL, PHP, Python or JavaScript stacks and AWS.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and bonuses, plus stock options for everyone.
• Private health coverage, nutritionist access and an in-house blood bank.
• Generous family policy, daily meals and a monthly meal allowance.
• OASA transport card or parking space near the office.
• Learning budget covering coaching, conferences and university degrees.
• Access to the Starttech Ventures ecosystem of SaaS companies.