Engineering Manager (EdTech)

RecT Solutions; Belgique; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International company retreats

Job summary

RecT Solutions is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the core Learn Product engineering team. This role demands hands-on leadership, setting architecture and directing AI-enabled development in a fast-paced EdTech platform.

You will work closely with Product and Design, coaching senior engineers toward staff and principal levels while delivering end-to-end features with an emphasis on scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building software across the stack
• 3+ years managing engineers at senior/staff level
• Hands-on use of agentic AI coding tools
• Experience in a small, fast-moving company
• Backend/DevOps or data engineering background
• Still hands-on with technical edge

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior/staff engineers from idea to shipped impact
• Be the primary technical escalation point for your team
• Set the technical direction and architecture for scalability and reliability
• Drive the team's use of agentic AI tooling
• Partner with Product and Design to shape the roadmap
• Grow engineers toward staff and principal levels
• Own delivery end-to-end from idea to iteration

Skills

Team leadership

System design

Architectural direction

Delivery ownership

Hands-on coding

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

We're recruiting on behalf of a large-scale global EdTech platform trusted by 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies. They're building the next generation of AI-powered learning - and they're an AI-native organization, not an AI-curious one. Agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor aren't an experiment there, they're how the team builds and ships every single day.

We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the team behind their core Learn Product - the systems that power how millions of people actually learn.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to step back from the technical work and manage from a distance. You'll lead a small team of senior and staff engineers, and you'll be the person they come to when something genuinely hard needs solving.

What you'll own:

• Lead a team of senior/staff engineers building large, ambiguous, high-impact projects from idea to shipped impact — real autonomy, fast feedback loops, not ticket-grinding
• Be the primary technical escalation point for your team — when someone hits a hard problem, you're in the weeds with them, not routing it elsewhere
• Set the technical direction and architecture for scalability, reliability, and maintainability, increasingly for LLM-powered services
• Drive your team's use of agentic AI tooling — you set the bar for how AI-assisted development is done well, and keep raising it
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape the roadmap, using data and user feedback to decide what to build next
• Grow senior engineers toward staff and principal-level impact — this team doesn't include junior engineers, so your coaching is aimed at people who are already strong
• Own delivery end-to-end: idea → build → release → measure → iterate, balancing speed with long-term platform health

You're a strong fit if you have:

• 7+ years building software across the stack, with strong command of system design and modern engineering practice
• 3+ years managing engineers at senior/staff level — you can speak concretely about how you've helped someone grow from senior to staff, or staff to principal
• Deep, sustained hands-on use of agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) — this is core to how you already work day-to-day, not something you're just starting to explore
• Recent experience managing at a small, fast-moving company — you know what it's like to build without the safety net of a large org
• A backend, DevOps, or data engineering background — you can go deep technically, not just coordinate
• Still genuinely hands-on — you haven't drifted fully into people management and lost your technical edge
• Comfort partnering directly with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders

What's in it for you:

• A role with real technical ownership, not just people management
• International company retreats

About the role:

• Location: Portugal (fully remote) or Belgium (hybrid if within ~1 hour of Leuven, remote otherwise)
• Full-time, direct employment with our client