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Engineering Manager
About the role
• Drive engineering-wide technical and non-technical initiatives beyond the boundaries of your own teams
• Identify organizational bottlenecks, implement changes independently, and measure before-and-after results
• Enable engineers by creating conditions for ideas to surface, be heard, and move forward
• Remove blockers while preserving team autonomy in delivery, hiring, and technical direction
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers at multiple levels
• Set clear individual performance standards and address underperformance early, openly, and fairly
• Push adoption and effective practices for agentic AI across the organization
• Partner with product managers to ship intuitive, reliable, and well-built user experiences while teams remain autonomous
• 3+ years managing engineers in a product company (not agency, not outsourcing)
• Two or three examples of engineering or process change you started yourself, drove end to end, and measured, where the effect reached beyond your own team
• Comfortable being hands-off: no code, no architecture ownership, no technical authority
• Experience working without a layer of team leads and architects between you and the engineers, or experience removing that layer yourself
• Experience handling underperformance early and transparently
• Experience growing senior-level engineers
• Agentic AI is already part of how you work, and you have driven its adoption beyond yourself
• Ability to make decisions without complete information, prioritize sharply, and acknowledge when you have taken on too much
• Open communication style with full context and accountability for mistakes
• Decisions grounded in logic, data and multiple perspectives
• Fluent Russian
• Competitive compensation package
• Fully remote long-term collaboration under a B2B model
• 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