ENGINEERING MANAGER (LISBON - PORTUGAL)

Gaming1; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gaming1 in Portugal is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one product engineering team. The role combines hands-on coding (30–50%) with people leadership and mentoring.

You will focus on creating the conditions for the team to do its best work, adapt to change, and continuously improve. This is a technical leadership role, not a delivery or project management position.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering with ability to code 30–50% of time.
• Experience in engineering leadership roles or senior engineering positions.
• Strong focus on quality, maintainability, testing, performance and security.
• Collaborates with Product to align outcomes with customer value.
• Comfortable coaching, feedback and mentoring rather than command-and-control.

Responsibilities

• Lead one product engineering team and ensure delivery of customer value.
• Foster short feedback loops and pragmatic engineering practices.
• Promote experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Enable the team with modern tooling, automation and AI where value is evident.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

People leadership

Experimentation & feedback

Engineering practices

AI-assisted engineering

Team enabling

Collaboration with Product

Tools

Automation tooling

AI tooling

Job description

As part of its sustained growth, Gaming1 is looking for a Engineering Manager to join its team in Portugal.

An Engineering Manager (EM) leads one product engineering team and combines:

• Hands-on software engineering (30%-50%)

• People leadership and mentoring

• A strong focus on experimentation, quality, and short feedback loops

The Engineering Manager’s primary role is to create the conditions in which the team can do its best work, adapt to change, and continuously improve. This includes evolving practices and tools over time, such as the responsible adoption of automation and AI when it brings clear value.

This is explicitly not a delivery or project management role.

It is a technical leadership role, close to the team, the code, and the product, without requiring the EM to be the most senior or specialized engineer.

YOUR ROLE

As an Engineering Manager, your mission is to ensure your team:

• Continuously delivers the best customer experience and business value

• Works in short cycles

• Experiments, learns, and improves continuously

• Applies strong and pragmatic engineering practices

You focus on enabling the team to succeed by setting clear expectations, fostering ownership, facilitating good decision-making, and removing impediments.

You help the team leverage modern tools and approaches, including AI-assisted engineering practices and product capabilities, when they demonstrably improve quality, speed, or customer experience.

YOUR PROFILE

You:

• Have a strong software engineering background and are comfortable staying hands-on (30–50%)

• Bring experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or senior engineer with clear people leadership impact

• Care deeply about engineering quality, maintainability, testing, performance, and security

• Work closely with Product to focus the team on customer value and outcomes, not just delivery

• Create a psychologically safe environment where engineers take ownership, experiment, and continuously improve

• Balance autonomy and alignment, enabling the team to make decisions within clear boundaries

• Lead through coaching, feedback, and mentoring, rather than command-and-control

• Are comfortable operating in short feedback loops, experimenting and learning fast

• Are curious and pragmatic about adopting modern tooling, automation, and AI-assisted practices when they bring real value