Engineering Manager (m/f/d) - Enterprise WordPress
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We are Syde ‒ a 100 % remote world-leading WordPress agency.
Are you a seasoned Engineering Manager (m/f/d) who combines a deep passion for technology with a natural talent for servant leadership? Great! Let’s discover new horizons together!
As an Engineering Manager (m/f/d) at Syde, a substantial part of your job will be ensuring engineers receive support, feedback, and guidance in their professional development and career progression.In addition to your pronounced leadership abilities, we admire your capacity to promote our core values. Teamwork, open communication, and team well-being are your guiding principles. You create an environment where everyone feels encouraged and supported to reach their full potential.
Your responsibilities
Line Management
Conduct regular check-ins, 1:1 meetings, and feedback/performance reviews with your direct reports.
Gather and provide professional feedback to your direct reports from their respective project teams, including project managers and delivery leads.
Offer mentorship first-hand or help find support elsewhere inside or outside the company.
Be the primary point of contact for your direct reports regarding handling planned and unplanned time off, personal updates, but also any needs or difficulties they may be facing.
Develop a thorough knowledge of Syde's engineering career ladder and assist your direct reports in setting and achieving progression goals, helping them identify growth and skill development opportunities.
Regularly review allocations for your direct reports, discussing fit for upcoming projects, skills, and other allocation considerations.
Technical Leadership
Represent your direct reports, as well as their project teams, in meta-level discussions about team structure, well-being, and professional development.
Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure the engineering discipline remains innovative and competitive.
Provide continuous technical expertise and guidance to your direct reports and other engineers.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, encouraging the adoption of best practices across the Engineering discipline.
Contribute to the setting of engineering standards and the maintenance of documentation, tools, and templates.
Facilitate clear and effective horizontal and vertical communication within the engineering discipline, and between engineering and other relevant departments within the company.
Participate in project retrospectives and other relevant ceremonies of your direct reports.
Help ensure a cohesive approach to solution design and development, contributing to the development of the overall engineering strategy, and aligning engineering activities with overall business goals.
Participate in the hiring process for Engineering Managers and other engineering roles.
Must-haves
At least two years of experience managing engineers in an international, multicultural context.
Technical background, with past experience of at least five years in software/web engineering, also in technical leadership roles.
Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers.
Experience with gathering and delivering constructive feedback.
Ability to create professional development plans aligning individual and company goals.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Growth-oriented, problem-solving, and conflict-navigating skills.
Availability to work in European timezones (UTC-1 to UTC+3), and occasionally participate in meetings in the LATAM timezone (UTC-7 to UTC-3).
Nice-to-haves
Experience working in a 100% remote working environment.
Hands-on experience with a technology stack close to ours (WordPress, PHP, JS, React, CMS).
Technical leadership experience in an international, multicultural agency context.
Experience with engineering hiring interviews and assessments.
Experience with Slack, Jira, Confluence, Personio, Leapsome, or Runn.
What we offer
- Work from home (we are 100% remote)
- A supportive Syde culture that appreciates YOU
- Multicultural, globally distributed team
- Flexible working hours
- Annual hardware budget
- Unlimited access to an online learning platform for books, courses, live events, certificate preparations, etc.
- Exciting global enterprise clients like SAP or PayPal
- Working at the heart of WordPress as a partner of WordPress VIP and WooCommerce
- Attend our local team events
- Visit WordCamps with the chance to hold sessions
- Lifelong learning and growth with career advancements
- A dynamic work environment with the encouragement of entrepreneurial thinking and acting
Become a Syder
At Syde, a respectful and inclusive way of working together isn’t just a principle — it’s a core part of our culture. This also shapes how we hire: we focus on experience, qualifications, and the best possible fit for the role. Factors such as gender, age, disability, religion, ethnicity, origin, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristics do not influence our decisions. What truly matters to us is creating an environment where diversity is valued and everyone has the chance to bring in their full potential.
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About us
As Europe’s biggest pure WordPress agency and one of the leading WordPress agencies worldwide, we are proud to be the only agency globally that is both, an official WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner and a certified WooExpert.
Whether company website or online shop, plugin development, or integrations with existing APIs like ERP systems - we deliver code to the highest standards. In this way, we guarantee secure, high-performance, and future-proof results.
Our roots originate from the German WordPress community, where some of our founders contributed and helped translate WordPress into German. In 2006, they founded Syde as a pure remote working agency for WordPress enterprise and SMB solutions.
Today, the Syde team consists of over 120 experts worldwide working remotely in a modern digital environment. A human-centered approach to work, an agile mindset, and continuous improvement are our basis for successful projects. Therefore, we encourage active participation and creative collaboration.
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