Engineering Manager (Search & AI Discovery)

JobCloud SA | jobup.ch - jobs.ch; Porto; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work hours

International collaboration

Training budget

1 day per month for challenges

Fun, productive atmosphere

Descripción de la vacante

JobCloud HR Tech in Porto, Portugal, seeks an Engineering Manager for Search & AI Discovery to lead an engineering team responsible for search, recommendations and alerts across JobCloud platforms. The role blends hands-on architecture with people leadership, collaborating with product, UX, marketing and AI/data specialists.

You will guide delivery, uphold engineering standards, and champion cloud-native design while collaborating across international offices.

Formación

• Several years of engineering leadership in a product-driven environment.
• Strong system design skills for large-scale, cloud-native architectures.
• Experience delivering end-to-end software from idea to production.
• Data-driven decision making with clear metrics and baselines.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a distributed engineering team across locations with a focus on delivery and quality.
• Own partner integrations from initial version to production features.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Marketing and AI/Data teams.
• Uphold engineering standards and drive architectural excellence.
• Foster a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Engineering leadership

System design

End-to-end delivery

Data-driven decisions

Communication

Cloud-native architecture

Herramientas

AWS

Python

TypeScript

Docker

AWS Lambda

ECS

Kafka

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Pulumi

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Bedrock

GitHub Copilot

Descripción del empleo

Love what you do – we make employment happen!

The Engineering Manager (Search & AI Discovery) at JobCloud leads the engineering team that helps job seekers discover relevant jobs and employers reach suitable candidates. The team’s work covers search, recommendations and alerts on JobCloud’s platforms, and making JobCloud’s content visible in search engines and AI assistants. This hybrid role is full time and based in Porto, Portugal.

As Engineering Manager, you improve relevance, performance and reliability as job discovery evolves. You work with Product, UX, Marketing and AI and data specialists.

This role suits engineering leaders who still read architecture diagrams but no longer need their name on every pull request. You know when to coach, when to challenge and when to get out of the way. You build trust and work well with engineers who know more than you.

WHAT IS JOBCLOUD HR TECH?

JobCloud HR Tech is the Porto, Portugal based company of JobCloud, Switzerland’s number 1 job ads brand and the company behind jobs.ch and jobup.ch. We build software that helps companies spend their hiring budget efficiently and get their job ads in front of the right candidates. Millions of job seekers and thousands of companies use our platform to find each other.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK AT JOBCLOUD?

We work as one team of experts in our field. Our culture is inclusive and respectful, and it is built on openness and collaboration. Your skills and motivation count. Your skin colour, gender and beliefs do not matter to us. Come as you are. Our purpose is “Love what you do.”

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THIS ROLE?

• Partner integrations: Own each integration of partner technology from the first version to a commercial feature in production. Help decide where partnering beats building.
• Team leadership: Lead an engineering team distributed across locations. Hire top talent and keep the team healthy. Give timely, actionable feedback and support individual growth plans.
• Product partnership: Work with Product Management to balance new features against reliability, security, maintainability and cost.
• Delivery: Turn priorities into realistic delivery plans with capacity, dependencies and risks made explicit. Communicate early, report bad news promptly and renegotiate when delivery is at risk.
• Ownership and operations: The team runs what it builds, with clear service ownership, monitoring and tested recovery options. Run blameless postmortems and turn recurring problems into structural improvements.
• Technical excellence: Review technical approaches and challenge designs and estimates, relying on technical leadership such as Staff engineers. Uphold shared engineering standards.
• Team culture: Create a safe environment where engineers challenge each other, raise concerns and experiment. Use open feedback as a tool for shared growth.
• AI-assisted engineering: Improve how the team works with AI assistants and coding agents where they deliver demonstrable value. Keep a human accountable.

WHAT SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED?

• Engineering leadership: several years of experience leading an engineering team in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. Combine customer experience, people development, team building and performance management.
• System design: Solid grasp of system design and of cloud-native, distributed and event-driven architecture serving millions of users. Previous hands‑on experience as an engineer building reliable, scalable systems.
• End-to-end delivery: Experience leading the software development lifecycle from idea to delivery. Ownership of the post-launch experience.
• Data-driven decisions: Understand your key metrics and use them to make quantifiable decisions. Establish baselines when data is not available.
• Communication: Business fluent in English. Build clear narratives and adjust complex conversations to the audience.

WHAT TECH STACK DOES JOBCLOUD USE?

JobCloud builds on AWS with a cloud-native, event-driven stack: Python and TypeScript, Docker, AWS Lambda and ECS, Kafka, DynamoDB and MongoDB. Infrastructure and monitoring run on Pulumi, Jenkins, Prometheus and Grafana. The engineers also use AI tooling such as Amazon Bedrock and GitHub Copilot. The full list is on JobCloud tech stack on StackShare.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• Ownership and impact: Own partner integrations from the first version to a commercial feature in production. Decide where partnering beats building and shape the team’s roadmap, architecture and hiring.
• Hybrid work: Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
• Team culture: A working atmosphere built on trust, mutual support and team spirit. JobCloud is a kununu Top Company 2026.
• International collaboration: Work with colleagues across JobCloud’s international offices (Zurich, Geneva, Belgrade or Vienna) including regular visits to Switzerland.
• Training budget: A personal budget for your professional development.
• 1 day per month to tackle challenges inside the project, or test new ideas
• A dynamic work environment that highly fosters a sense of fun while maintaining a productive atmosphere

HOW DOES THE HIRING PROCESS FOR THIS ROLE WORK?

• Pre-screening with recruiter (30 min): Motivation, role expectations, location and hybrid-work requirements
• Hiring manager interview (45 min): Scope, autonomy, collaboration and influence
• System design (70 to 90 min): Ownership after launch, communication and writing
• Product (45 min): Product & Costumer Sense and Communication
• Final round (45 min) with CTO: Leadership, Collaboration & Influence
• Offer

WHAT ARE OUR BENEFITS?

• 10 days fully paid sick leave per year
• 25 days of annual vacation leave
• Full private health coverage (employee + up to 2 children to age 20)
• Gym allowance
• Hybrid & flexible working (team-based arrangement)
• Learning & Development
• Workation