Engineering Manager

Enhesa; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible home-working policy and work–

A competitive salary package

Job summary

Enhesa is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building modern SaaS applications for a global client base, including Fortune 500 customers.

You will shape technology, champion AI-assisted development (Claude Code), coach engineers, and ensure delivery with quality while aligning with architectural patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6+ years in software development with 4+ years in senior/lead roles reviewing designs.
• Fluent in English; strong leadership and communication.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor team members with regular 1:1s and training.
• Lead hiring and onboarding for the team with HR collaboration.
• Plan and prioritize technical work with stakeholders.
• Drive AI adoption across the SDLC and measure impact.
• Review designs and challenge architecture choices.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies and remove impediments.

Skills

Technical judgment

Leadership

Agile methodologies

AI in SDLC

Communication skills

Team collaboration

English fluent

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Enhesais the global compliance partner to the world's largest businesses, bringing clarity to a regulatory and sustainability landscape that never stops changing.

Our mission is to help organizations makeinformeddecisions they can defend, wherever they operate,combining deep human expertise with AIefficiency, to confidently actacross EHS, product, chemical, and corporate sustainability compliance.

Businesses cometo us needing help understanding what regulators expect.We'ebuilt our services around solvingthat problemand work with more than half of the fortune 500, as a trusted provider of intelligence.

AtEnhesa, ourteamsare guided by purpose, passion,inclusivity, anddrivingprogress. Weareunited by a belief that positive change is everyone's responsibility.

If these qualities sound like you, Enhesa could be your next career move!

What we offer

• A competitive salarypackage
• Flexible home-working policy and work/life balance
• Accountability and pride for your projects

For more information visit: www.enhesa.com

Overview of the position

As an Engineering Manager at Enhesa, you will lead a team of talented Engineers building modern applications that deliver value with quality to our global customer base, which includes many Fortune 500 companies. You will be the first line of technical challenge for your team: questioning design and technology choices, keeping solutions as simple as the problem allows, and ensuring the team delivers with quality. You will lead how your team uses AI across the software development lifecycle, continuously improving how engineers work with tools like Claude Code. You will play an important role in shaping our technology and helping accelerate our progress towards SaaS excellence. At Enhesa, we prioritize our people, trusting them to deliver and investing in their growth. You will help reinforce this culture by actively coaching your team and supporting their development.

Core responsibilities

• Coach and mentorindividuals to grow. Dedicate time to regular one-to-one interactions, support individuals in selecting relevant training, set clear objectives, and provide regular feedback.
• Lead hiring and onboarding for the team, collaborating with HR to ensure technical and cultural fit.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by clearly communicating team capacity, identifying and communicating risks, and updating on team progress and needs.
• Collaboratewith technical experts and Product Management to plan and prioritize enhancements in line with business needs.
• Lead planning, estimation, and prioritization of technical work, keeping plans up to date and meeting delivery objectives.
• Advocate for an adequate portion of capacity to be allocated to technical initiatives, ensuring technical strategy is aligned with business goals.
• Translate and communicatetechnical concepts and solutions to different stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Review designs and technical proposals and challenge technology and architecture choices where appropriate. Ensure solutions align with Enhesa's architectural patterns, and elevate to Architecture where direction is unclear.
• Organizeand facilitate team ceremonies as Scrum Master, including daily standups, retrospectives, refinements, and planning.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement in the team by prioritizing retrospection and following up on improvement actions.
• Resolve impediments and blockers for the team.
• Execute on the Engineering Strategy and other cross-team initiatives.
• Prioritize delivering with quality, promoting practices such as shift-test-left, TDD, test automation, and root cause analysis.
• Manage incidents according to the Incident Management policy, along with technical risks within the team.
• Own how the team uses AI across the SDLC, from refinement and design through coding, code review, testing, and incident response. Understand how engineers are actually using AI tools, identify where AI is creating risk or friction (review load, test quality, security, over-reliance, inconsistent practices), and lead continuous improvement of the team's AI-assisted workflow.
• Measure the impact of AI adoption on delivery and quality (e.g., DORA metrics, rework, defect rates) and share effective practices across teams.

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Experience

6+ years in software development, including at least 4 years hands-on and experience in a senior or lead role reviewing technical designs.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical designs and trade-offs without implementing them yourself: synchronous vs. asynchronous processing, service boundaries, data consistency, failure modes, and operational cost in cloud-based SaaS systems. This role does not require hands-on coding; it does require sound technical judgment.
• Ability to lead large initiatives spanning multiple teams with high complexity.
• Strong knowledgeof engineering principles and practices.
• Proficiencyin Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum.
• Experiencewith software development lifecycle and project management.
• Current, hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code) in your own work, and a clear point of view on how AI changes the software development lifecycle: where it helps, where it introduces risk, and how to measure the difference.
• Excellent communicationand leadership skills.
• High levels of professionalism, interpersonal skills, and personal drive.
• Team player:ability to work on a team in a collaborative environment, sharing information and best practices.
• Fluent in English.Other languages are an asset.
• Experience working with SaaS products.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Enhesa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected characteristic.