Engineering Manager

WHO WE ARE 🌍

Manychat is a leading Chat Marketing platform. We help businesses engage with their customers on Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

Trusted by over 1 million brands in 170+ countries, we're an official Meta Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

With 250+ teammates across international offices in Austin, Barcelona, Yerevan, São Paulo, and Amsterdam — Manychat helps businesses across the globe improve their ROI and grow faster.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR 🌟

We are looking for a highly skilled Engineering Manager to lead our engineering efforts across product areas.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 🚀

• Technical Leadership: Guide architecture and technical decisions to ensure scalability and best practices. Identify roadblocks and implement solutions to keep teams on track.
• Team Development: plan team growth, recruit, mentor, and motivate engineers while fostering a strong feedback culture.
• Performance Management: Evaluate and enhance team performance through regular feedback culture.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Align with the Area Product Owner and Engineering Managers on long-term strategy and OKRs. 
• Process Optimisation: Improve workflows to elevate team efficiency. Lead the team through evolving challenges and drive innovation. 
• Hands-On Support: Participate in code reviews, system design, and occasional coding to coach the team.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING 💥

• 3+ years of successfully leading and scaling cross functional development teams with backend and frontend scope as an Engineering Manager
• Outstanding expertise in software development and architecture design, experience with high load is a plus
• Familiarity with PHP as a developer or a manager
• Track of record improving development engineering processes and increasing team efficiency Ability to foster trustful relationships with Product organisation and Engineering managers
• Experience in Agile values and principles

WHAT WE VALUE IN OUR LEADERS 💡

• Communication. Ability to clearly and effectively convey thoughts and ideas while actively listening and responding to others
• Collaboration. Effectively working with others to achieve common goals. Ability to ask questions and seek help.
• Proactivity. Ability to take initiative and anticipate future challenges or opportunities, rather than merely reacting to events as they occur
• Sense of Ownership. Being accountable for their actions, taking ownership of decisions and projects
• Flexibility. Ability to pick things up on the go, readiness to keep moving the needle even though the conditions are not perfect (they’re never perfect).
• Adaptability. Ability to adjust effectively to new conditions, being open to change, learning new skills and maintaining a positive attitude in uncertainty or unexpected situations
• Product orientedness. Strong interest in product and focus on customer needs. Continuously seeking ways to enhance product features, performance, and value
• Self-awareness. Ability to reflect on and recognize how own emotions, strengths, weaknesses and values impact one's actions and decisions.

WHAT WE OFFER 🤗

We care about your growth, well-being, and comfort

• Candidates outside of Barcelona can start onboarding and complete the probation period remotely with further relocation to the city for a hybrid work format.
• Relocation support through airplane tickets, accommodations for up to three weeks, and a relocation bonus.
• Professional development budget for relevant conference tickets, training programs, or courses.
• Flexible benefits plan to choose the perks that fit your needs.
• Health insurance, including dentistry, psychology sessions, nutrition consultations, surgery, and travel assistance.
• Free meals and snacks in the office.
• Hybrid work format to choose between home and office.