Engineering Manager

NextDay AI; Barcelona; A distancia; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading AI company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team of engineers. This remote role involves both hands-on technical work and team management, focusing on delivering high-quality solutions while fostering a strong team culture. Ideal candidates have a strong technical background and experience in people leadership. Join us to be part of an innovative team shaping the future of AI.

Servicios

Unlimited Vacations

Competitive salary and benefits

Flex-time management

Formación

• Proven experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong technical background to guide architectural decisions.
• Excellent people leadership and coaching skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team of eight engineers.
• Ensure technical solutions align with long-term engineering vision.
• Foster a culture centered on accountability and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Team leadership

Technical contribution

Effective communication

Coaching and mentoring

Herramientas

React

AWS Lambda

TypeScript

Jira

Confluence

Descripción del empleo

Remote Only We accept candidates from anywhere in Europe!

About the job NextDay AI is a privately held company specialising in applying artificial intelligence (AI) engineering and creative innovation in B2C entertainment products. Our mission is to leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLM) and generative AI (Gen AI) to create innovative consumer products that push the boundaries of entertainment and companionship. With over 35 millions+ messages per day and millions of monthly visitors, our products are revolutionising the way people interact with AI.

This is a unique opportunity to participate and make a real difference in a company actively working to shape the future of AI applications for consumers.

Job Description We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our cross-functional product engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation who is equally passionate about team leadership. You will manage a group of approximately eight engineers across frontend, backend, mobile, and QA disciplines. Working closely with the Tech Leads, you’ll ensure that the team’s solutions are technically sound and aligned with our broader engineering direction, avoiding isolated decisions that conflict with long-term architectural goals. You’ll also collaborate with QA to maintain high standards of quality in everything the team ships.

What You’ll Do Lead and support a high-performing, cross-functional engineering team of around eight engineers across frontend, backend, mobile, and QA. Split your time between hands-on contribution (~40%) and people / process management (~60%). Partner with Tech Leads to ensure technical solutions align with our long-term engineering vision, avoiding isolated decisions that conflict with strategic architectural goals. Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and QA to ensure priorities are clear and the team consistently delivers high-quality, tested, and maintainable solutions. Foster a strong team culture centered on accountability, autonomy, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Coach and mentor engineers to support their professional growth and help resolve performance or interpersonal issues constructively and effectively. Identify process gaps and areas for improvement, then work with the team to design and implement practical, scalable solutions. Contribute to the evolution of our engineering practices as we scale, including hiring, onboarding, and cross-team coordination.

What We’re Looking For Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment. Strong technical background, with the ability to meaningfully contribute to codebases and guide architectural decisions. Demonstrated ability to align team-level execution with broader engineering strategy. Excellent people leadership skills : able to coach, give feedback, manage performance, and build trust. Effective communicator who can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable working with evolving priorities and able to bring clarity and structure to ambiguity. Passionate about building cohesive, motivated teams that deliver consistently. Committed to fostering an inclusive and psychologically safe team environment.

Nice to have Familiarity with our tech stack : React, React Native, Vite, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, Redux, TypeScript, AWS Lambda functions Familiarity with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) is a plus Experience working in cross-functional product development teams Background in contributing to or managing platform-level or infrastructure initiatives

Why Join Us? Real 100% remote work (we don't have physical offices to go to "once per week") Flex-time / Manage your schedule Policy (we are looking for teamwork and results, not hours) Unlimited Vacations Policy Competitive salary and benefits package. Dynamic and supportive work environment. Opportunity to work closely with leadership and gain cross-functional experience in a fast-growing company at the forefront of the AI revolution.

If you're passionate about AI and innovation and want to be at the forefront of the conversational AI revolution and join a team on the first few years of a great journey, apply today! We might have a seat for you on our rocket ship!