Engineering Manager

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic Engineering Manager to lead one or more of our cross-functional product development teams, looking to support and continuously improve our engineers and processes.

In this high-impact position, you will be combining your excellent people management skills and technical leadership qualities to take ownership of ensuring high productivity and satisfaction amongst the teams you will be leading.

You will be reporting to our Head of Engineering.

You will join a company with roots and heart in music. We're a team of 60+ developers, engineers, product managers, and more, drawn from every corner of the globe. The common denominator?

Music - we live and breathe the stuff.

The Role

Our Engineering Managers work with a number of product development teams, supporting their developers and processes. As an Engineering Manager, you are responsible for managing developers across your teams, guiding and supporting their growth, while ensuring we have the right technical skills in the team to tackle the challenges we are solving.

Who YOU are:

• An empathetic leader in the development of people operations.
• Previous experience in leading and managing engineers, being able to understand the unique challenges being an engineer yourself.
• Excel at developing people and managing them.
• Possess keen leadership skills.
• Have experience mentoring and coaching teams with a positive influence on the individual team members and fostering maturity in their career paths.
• Have proven experience setting and driving the agenda for improvement areas.
• Know what it means to attain high-performing engineering teams and the impact.
• Ability to identify challenges and find solutions for yourself and your team.
• Sharing knowledge is something that you do and encourage.

What YOU will do:

• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to set goals and expectations and support the team in succeeding.
• Design and monitor suitable processes for your team to support an efficient software development process.
• Understand and influence the impact processes and technology have on your team's productivity and satisfaction.
• Act as a conduit between engineering and other departments in the business, shielding and fielding questions where necessary.
• Develop new coaches and mentors in your teams.
• Guide developers across your teams, supporting and recognizing development of their technical and product skills. Help grow your reports, and highlight areas for progression.
• Ensure the team has a good work-life balance, lead by example, and foster a culture of psychological safety allowing people to be vulnerable, adaptable, and challenged.
• Ensure a culture of transparency and incentivize knowledge sharing.
• Support recruiting of new employees and onboard new colleagues to the teams, ensuring your teams have the right expertise.
• Work in close collaboration with HR, recruitment and other business stakeholders and speak on behalf of the team on general team well-being.

About Linkfire:
We're a passionate team of music techies on a mission to make music consumption easier for fans, labels, and artists. The music industry is transforming constantly, the market is fragmented and split across many different platforms and services.

Physical sales are going down. Legal downloads and in particular streaming are gaining momentum.

The transformation will continue and the years to come will be very interesting. We want to contribute to the transformation by bringing music and fans closer. Not inside music services, but outside where fans and artists engage. Our approach is to index digital music across music services and provide smart links that route fans directly to the music regardless of their location or which player or platform they use.

It's complex. We make it simple.

What's in it for you:

• The opportunity to create the must-have product for the music industry and ensure that every month over 150M+ music fans get the best experience
• The chance for your work to impact the music consumption of millions of music enthusiasts all over the globe
• You'll always learn new things and no two days will be alike.
• An open, informal entrepreneurial startup working environment
• Flexible hours, work from home when you need to
• An awesome, international office with colleagues from 25+ different nationalities
• We hire for permanent full-time employment under Portuguese law
• Competitive salary based on experience and a 37,5 hour work week
• 25 days of paid vacation
• Other Benefits incl.: Private Health Insurance, Work computer and work phone with a paid subscription, Flexible work from home possibilities

Sounds good to you? If so, submit your CV/resume and cover letter and we'll be in touch!
- Music has the unique power to unite us all. It transcends cultures, languages, and borders. Every day, we help artists from around the world connect with their fans, and we're immen