Remote Realtime Engineering Manager - Lead & Scale Systems

Jobgether; France; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Equity ownership

Technology allowance

Health coverage

Annual company off-sites

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager - Realtime based in France to lead a globally distributed real-time infrastructure team. You will manage people, set the roadmap, and drive delivery for low-latency messaging, presence, and data-change services while balancing performance and cost.

This remote-first role emphasizes strong leadership and product delivery across time zones. You will oversee incident management, post-incident reviews, and continuous platform evolution, partnering with

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of engineering experience with depth to engage credibly on complex systems.
• At least 3 years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience leading a low-latency, high-connection service (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging).
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems: clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, capacity planning.
• Experience handling production incidents, with follow-up and blameless reviews.
• Experience shipping real-time APIs/SDKs to external customers.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams across time zones.
• Strong people-management: performance, coaching, difficult conversations, feedback.
• Ability to foster psychological safety and constructive feedback culture.
• Coaching-oriented leadership style, removing blockers and empowering engineers.
• Ability to create structure in ambiguity with autonomous decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; clear async collaboration.
• Collaborative, adaptable, low-ego approach to leadership with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Realtime engineering team across people management, technical direction, delivery and operations.
• Shape the team's roadmap and project execution using Linear with clear milestones.
• Oversee recruitment, interview processes, and collaboration with Talent Acquisition.
• Coordinate requests, triage Slack, prioritize work, and maintain stakeholder alignment.
• Ensure service quality with SLAs and contribute to incident responses and post‑incident reviews.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and communicate them to leadership.
• Act as Incident Commander, coordinating response, resolution and follow‑ups.
• Drive continuous improvement and blameless retrospectives for meaningful changes.

Skills

Team leadership

Hiring manager

Roadmap delivery

Stakeholder coordination

Incident management

Post-incident reviews

Coaching leadership

Distributed teams

Asynchronous collaboration

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager - Realtime based in France to lead a globally distributed real-time infrastructure team. You will manage people, set the roadmap, and drive delivery for low-latency messaging, presence, and data-change services while balancing performance and cost.

This remote-first role emphasizes strong leadership and product delivery across time zones. You will oversee incident management, post-incident reviews, and continuous platform evolution, partnering with