Engineering Manager

Litebox; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 466,000 - 622,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

15 paid vacation days per year

Flexible hours

Birthday off

Job summary

Litebox, a boutique digital agency, seeks an Engineering Manager to shape engineering practices and nurture talent. You will partner with Tech Leads and the COO to translate business priorities into practical plans and ensure sustainable delivery across distributed teams.

You will drive collaboration with Product and Design, establish clear rituals, and push for high-trust environments while using AI tools to accelerate decision making and documentation.

Qualifications

• Leading engineering teams to deliver reliable software solutions.
• Proven ability to develop engineers and align product with business aims.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Tech Leads to ensure technical execution and quality.
• Guide Tech Leads and indirectly engineers for autonomy and clarity.
• Collaborate with COO to translate priorities into actionable plans.
• Align with Product and Design to reduce ambiguity and enable execution.
• Ensure realistic delivery planning aligned with goals.
• Foster high-trust communication and constructive decision-making.
• Drive improvements in processes, practices, and observability.
• Support talent decisions and team design to grow engineering mindfully.
• Shape engineering culture, rituals, and scalable operating mechanisms.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate reasoning, documentation, and decisions.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional contexts and surface risks.
• Maintain visibility of timelines and dependencies; escalate blockers.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Talent development

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

English proficiency (B2+)

Distributed teams

Job description

Engineering Manager Litebox is a boutique digital agency on a mission to help teams build unique products. We work with some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley — partnering with startups and tech leaders in San Francisco to craft digital experiences we can genuinely be proud of. We believe that how we work matters just as much as what we ship. As an AI-First company, we look for leaders who think like makers: curious, pragmatic, and eager to leverage every tool at their disposal — especially AI — to accelerate problem-solving, unblock teams, and elevate execution. We value how you reason, communicate, and align people more than rigid methodologies or process theater. This role is for an Engineering Manager: someone who cares deeply about people, who can create the conditions for teams to perform at their best, and who elevates engineering through clarity, collaboration, and high-trust environments. You won’t be writing code day-to-day, but you’ll be expected to shape engineering practices, nurture talent, support strategic technical decisions, and ensure delivery happens sustainably. If you’re passionate about developing engineers, aligning product and business, and building teams that embody healthy engineering culture, Litebox is the place for you.

Location: LATAM

Type: Contractor

Responsibilities

• Partner with Tech Leads to ensure technical execution, delivery quality, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Provide guidance and support primarily to Tech Leads (and indirectly to engineers), enabling autonomy, clarity, and continuous improvement in execution.
• Collaborate closely with the COO (to whom this role reports directly) to translate business priorities into actionable engineering plans.
• Partner with Product and Design to align strategy, priorities, and expectations, reducing ambiguity and clearing paths for execution.
• Ensure delivery planning is realistic, sustainable, and aligned with product and business goals.
• Facilitate high-trust communication, constructive feedback, and healthy decision-making across teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in processes, workflows, documentation, technical practices, quality, and observability.
• Support talent decisions and team design (hiring, onboarding, role clarity, and performance signals) to grow engineering thoughtfully.
• Help shape engineering culture, rituals, and operating mechanisms that scale as the organization evolves.
• Use AI tools to accelerate reasoning, documentation, decision-making, and communication.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional contexts, surfacing risks early and proposing pragmatic, data-aware solutions.
• Maintain visibility of timelines, dependencies, and risks across teams, and ensure blockers are escalated and resolved quickly.

Values Alignment (critical for this role)

• Collaborate always - create environments where all voices are heard, information flows transparently, and teams move as a unit, not as individuals.
• Evolve continuously - treat feedback, iteration, and experimentation as core mechanisms for improvement - in people, processes, and decisions.
• Are flexible - stay resilient under uncertainty, adapt quickly to new contexts, and support teammates through change.
• Pursue excellence - care about quality, details, and outcomes, while keeping a balanced, pragmatic approach to execution and business realities.
• Build trust - foster psychological safety, hold constructive conversations, and treat people with respect and empathy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles (EM, Lead, Staff, or similar).
• Experience developing and retaining engineering talent.
• Experience managing delivery, priorities, and cross-functional alignment.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to influence without relying on authority; bias toward clarity and collaboration.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making informed trade-offs.
• Experience working with distributed teams across time zones.
• English proficiency (B2 or higher).

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a software engineer (IC) before moving into management.
• Experience in product-driven and/or agency environments.
• Experience designing or operating performance review processes.
• Exposure to scaling engineering orgs (practices, hiring, structure, rituals).
• Interest in AI-augmented workflows to improve engineering decision-making.

This is a full-time contractor position with no fixed term.

Life at Litebox

Life-Work Balance

• 100% remote work from anywhere
• 15 paid vacation days per year
• Flexible hours to fit your lifestyle
• Birthday off to celebrate your way

LiveLite Culture

• Recognition through Sparkle
• Referral Program incentives

Special Moments

• Unique gifts on your Litebox anniversaries
• Year-end celebration with a gift

Growth

• Paid licenses for AI tools - Claude, ChatGPT, and more - to work smarter every day
• Access to internal training to keep learning
• Performance-based feedback and recognition every six months to support your career growth
• Personalized 1:1 sessions for meaningful conversations, growth, and well-being