Engineering Manager | Remote | Europe

Overview

In this first-line Engineering Manager role, you will lead and grow an engineering team within an AI-native, fast-moving product organization. You will shape team culture, set clear direction, and ensure delivery of meaningful platform outcomes. You’ll partner with Product and Design to align priorities and manage trade-offs while maintaining quality and velocity. This is a chance to influence how n8n scales as an enterprise product and empower engineers to own their growth.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• 30 days vacation in Europe; 20 vacation days + 8 sick days in US
• Health plans (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match (US)
• Disability and life insurance; no-cost HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA (US)

Responsibilities

• Build and empower a high-performing engineering team
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers; support hiring and onboarding
• Create clarity as priorities evolve and AI transforms product development
• Communicate change with context and confidence, reducing uncertainty
• Drive execution with speed, judgment, and alignment
• Mentor technically, oversee architecture decisions, and unblock the team
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and stakeholders to align on priorities and success metrics
• Provide structure where helpful while keeping processes lightweight

Key requirements

• First-line Engineering Manager with at least 2 years leading engineers in a growing product organization
• Domain experience in Billing & licensing or Governance & observability
• Strong people leadership with empathy, feedback, and accountability
• Composure in fast-moving environments with optimistic judgment
• Hands-on software engineering background and ability to mentor and discuss technical trade-offs
• Comfortable going deep in technical details when needed but main role is people leadership
• Cross-functional alignment experience with Product and Design
• Experience in a high-growth SaaS company

• Leadership
• Effective communication
• Empathy and accountability
• TypeScript / Node.js familiarity
• Software engineering background with system and architecture discussion experience
• Open-source or developer tooling interest

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