Global Real-Time Engineering Manager (Remote)

Jobgether; Spain; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Equity ownership

Technology allowance

Health coverage

Annual off-sites

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner, is seeking an Engineering Manager - Realtime based in Spain. You will lead a globally distributed team building a low-latency real-time infrastructure for messaging, presence, and data notifications, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

You will shape the team's roadmap, mentor senior engineers, own incident response, and drive operational excellence in a remote-first environment while maintaining high engineering standards.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of engineering experience with sufficient depth to engage credibly with engineers on complex systems.
• At least 3 years of experience managing remote engineering teams.
• Previous experience leading a team building and operating a low-latency, high-connection service (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence).
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, and capacity planning.
• Experience leading teams through production incidents affecting customer-facing services, including follow-up and blameless reviews.
• Experience understanding developer needs for real-time APIs/SDKs and shipping to external customers.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams working asynchronously across multiple time zones.
• Strong people-management capabilities, including performance management, coaching, and continuous feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to build psychological safety and foster constructive feedback culture.
• Coaching-oriented leadership style focused on removing blockers and empowering engineers.
• Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments and operate with autonomy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for asynchronous collaboration.
• Collaborative, adaptable, low-ego leadership to guide experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Realtime engineering team across people management, technical direction, delivery, and operational responsibilities.
• Own the team's roadmap and project execution, using Linear to establish priorities and milestones.
• Coordinate workflow and stakeholder alignment, triage Slack requests, and balance priorities.
• Coordinate incident response, resolution, and follow-up activities as Incident Commander.
• Drive service quality and operational performance with SLAs/SLOs and metrics.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies early and communicate trade-offs to leadership.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews and translate lessons into improvements.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Remote team management

Distributed systems

Incident management

Real-time systems

Communication

Tools

Linear

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner, is seeking an Engineering Manager - Realtime based in Spain. You will lead a globally distributed team building a low-latency real-time infrastructure for messaging, presence, and data notifications, balancing performance, reliability, and cost.

You will shape the team's roadmap, mentor senior engineers, own incident response, and drive operational excellence in a remote-first environment while maintaining high engineering standards.