Senior Engineering Manager

Prisma; Oslo; On-site; NOK 910,000 - 1,315,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology startup in Oslo is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead their ORM team. This role involves empowering developers, optimizing processes, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of software engineering leadership experience and strong communication skills. Offering competitive salary, remote work, and generous benefits to support employee well-being.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Stock options

Generous time off

Mental health support

Tech budget

Qualifications

• 8+ years of proven leadership in software engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience as a software engineer.
• Familiarity with cloud services and developer tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Empower your engineering team to achieve technical excellence.
• Optimize and refine development processes and practices.
• Ensure your team consistently delivers high-quality software.

Skills

Leadership in software engineering

Experience with TypeScript

SQL/NoSQL databases

APIs (GraphQL/REST)

Strong communication skills

Methodical problem-solving

Job description

Overview

Prisma redefines how developers work with databases. If you’re fascinated by cutting-edge data infrastructure and want the agility, ownership, and impact of a fast-moving startup, Prisma is the place for you.

Backed by top-tier investors, our small, distributed team is making advanced database technology accessible to developers. Our open-source tools are trusted by thousands of developers each month, with an active community on Discord and GitHub.

Prisma Postgres is our flagship product designed to enhance PostgreSQL with modern developer workflows, performance optimizations, and seamless scaling. Prisma Accelerate and Studio provide a world-class toolkit for building with data. By combining open-source with cutting-edge commercial solutions, we’re shaping the future of databases.

What would you do at Prisma?

We anticipate you to be responsible for the following areas:

• People: Empower your engineering team to achieve technical excellence and meaningful impact by ensuring they have support and resources to do their best work. Provide constructive feedback, create learning and growth opportunities, and challenge them to improve. Help them understand why their work matters and how it aligns with company-wide KPIs. We believe strong, healthy teams start with investing in people.
• Process: Optimize and refine development processes and technical practices to drive continuous improvement. Lead engineering team meetings to plan and prioritize work, run retrospectives to identify improvements, and establish policies that enhance communication, collaboration, and code quality.
• Delivery: Ensure your team consistently delivers high-quality software that provides value at a sustainable pace. Collaborate with the Product Manager to prioritize product initiatives, define the roadmap, and drive technical improvements.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We believe the right candidate should meet a majority of the criteria listed below.

• 8+ years of proven leadership in software engineering teams, with hands-on experience as a software engineer.
• Experience in database and backend technologies, including TypeScript, SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, SQL Server), familiarity with cloud services, APIs (GraphQL/REST), and developer tooling is a plus.
• High standards for quality, balancing pragmatism and ownership, making thoughtful trade-offs, and driving meaningful impact.
• Focus on helping your team understand the why.
• Strong communication skills in English, written and verbal, with ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and foster collaboration.
• Structured thought process: methodical problem-solving, clear goals, anticipation of challenges, and aligned execution.

What’s it like to work at Prisma?

You may be a great fit if you:

• Have an ownership mindset and can influence decisions as an Engineering Manager leading the ORM team.
• Are kind and collaborative, eager to share ideas and listen to feedback.

What’s in it for you?

We put our people first. Competitive pay, full flexibility, and benefits that make a difference. Take time off when you need it, grow your career, and do work that matters.

• Opportunity to lead the team shaping Prisma’s cutting-edge cloud products and redefine how developers build and scale applications.
• Supportive team that values collaboration, growth, and continuous learning.
• Competitive base salary and stock options with extended post-termination exercise windows.
• Fully remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere within required time zones; office access to a local co-working space up to ten days per month if preferred.
• Generous time off, including paid vacation and paid sick leave.
• Parental benefits, including fully paid parental leave and child sick leave.
• Sabbatical leave after three years of employment.
• Mental health support and paid mental health days.
• Tech budget for tools, annual off-sites, and relocation support to Berlin after twelve months (if you relocate).
• US health and pension benefits, including health, dental, vision, and 401k matching.

Remote Work

To ensure effective collaboration, we can currently only accept candidates within the timezone GMT -2 to GMT +3 for this position.

Hiring Process

• Introductory call with Head of Engineering
• Take-home assignment followed by a debrief with Engineering and Leadership
• Team interview with engineers on your potential team
• Leadership interview with the COO
• Final interview with the CEO
• Offer

The above is a basic outline; steps may be added or removed based on information gathered during the process.

If you believe this is the right position for you, please send your resume and supporting documentation via the link provided on this page. We typically respond within 7 business days.

In line with our Fair Treatment and Equal Opportunity Policy and Disability Policy, Prisma follows fair and merit-based hiring practices. We evaluate all candidates based on skills, experience, and qualifications, and do not make hiring decisions based on age, race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, parental or caregiver status, trade union membership, disability, religious belief or lack of belief, life expectancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran or military status.