Engineering Manager

• Drive engineering-wide technical and non-technical initiatives beyond the candidate's own teams
• Identify organizational bottlenecks, implement changes independently, and demonstrate measurable before-and-after results
• Enable engineers by creating conditions for ideas to surface, be heard, and move forward
• Remove blockers while preserving team autonomy
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers at multiple levels
• Set clear individual performance standards and address underperformance early, openly, and fairly
• Advance AI-agent adoption, practices, and organizational capabilities
• Partner with product managers to ship intuitive, reliable, and well-built user experiences

• 3+ years managing engineers in a product company (not agency, not outsourcing)
• Two or three examples of engineering or process change started independently, driven end to end, and measured, with impact beyond the candidate's own team
• Comfortable being hands-off: no code, no architecture ownership, no technical authority
• Experience working without a layer of team leads and architects, or experience removing that layer
• Experience handling underperformance early and transparently
• Experience growing senior-level engineers
• Agentic AI already part of daily work, with experience driving its adoption beyond oneself
• Ability to make decisions without complete information and prioritize sharply
• Open communication, including acknowledging personal mistakes
• Decisions grounded in logic, data, and multiple perspectives
• Fluent Russian

• Competitive compensation package
• Health insurance after the probation period
• Sports & wellness compensation
• Personalized English lessons via Preply
• 22 paid vacation days annually
• 5 additional wellness days each year
• Paid sick leave for the first 5 working days
• Thoughtful gifts for key life events
• Offline corporate events
• Fully remote long-term collaboration under a B2B model