Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Secfix; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Secfix is seeking an Engineering Manager in Germany to lead a growing technical team and own key architectural decisions. You will help the team move faster while maintaining high quality and a strong product sense.

You will work closely with the CTO and co-founders to coach engineers, set the pace, and ensure features ship on time and meet users’ needs. This role emphasizes speed and taste in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience delivering software products at scale.
• Ability to balance speed with quality and good product taste.
• Experience coaching engineers and collaborating with product/design teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction and drive architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and ensure timely delivery of features.
• Collaborate with product and design to align on roadmaps and outcomes.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Technical decision-making

Product mindset

Coaching and mentoring

Job description

Hi — I'm Grigory, co-founder and CTO at Secfix.

At Secfix we're building security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort. We're already the category leader in Europe. AI is changing how software gets built, and we're shaping the tools this new era requires.

I've spent most of my career believing that the best engineering leaders aren't the ones who run the most meetings. They're the ones who make everyone around them faster, clearer, and more proud of their work — and they can do that because they've been through the hard technical problems themselves.

Since we started, I've done the engineering management myself: 1:1s, hiring, design reviews, performance conversations. The team is 8 engineers and 2 product designers, and I'm spread across too many things. If we were a football team, we'd be a good regional side that just made it to the Bundesliga — talented, hard-working, winning quite a few games. Now we need a coach who's played at Champions League level and can take us there to win every week.

That means a strong engineering manager who can still ship. Someone who owns the technical decisions, sets the pace, and has product taste — who notices when a feature takes three weeks that should take one, and when it ships on time but isn't good enough. You won't ship weekly — you'll need focus — but you'll build with the team often enough to know the playbook still works.

You'll work directly with me. Two things matter most here: speed and taste. Most teams pick one. We need both to win.

What you'll actually do in the first 3 months

Hi — I'm Grigory, co-founder and CTO at Secfix.

At Secfix we're building security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort. We're already the category leader in Europe. AI is changing how software gets built, and we're shaping the tools this new era requires.

I've spent most of my career believing that the best engineering leaders aren't the ones who run the most meetings. They're the ones who make everyone around them faster, clearer, and more proud of their work — and they can do that because they've been through the hard technical problems themselves.

Since we started, I've done the engineering management myself: 1:1s, hiring, design reviews, performance conversations. The team is 8 engineers and 2 product designers, and I'm spread across too many things. If we were a football team, we'd be a good regional side that just made it to the Bundesliga — talented, hard-working, winning quite a few games. Now we need a coach who's played at Champions League level and can take us there to win every week.

That means a strong engineering manager who can still ship. Someone who owns the technical decisions, sets the pace, and has product taste — who notices when a feature takes three weeks that should take one, and when it ships on time but isn't good enough. You