Engineering Manager

YLD; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 80 000 - 100 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Company private health care

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Annual training allowances

Access to wellbeing apps

Generous referral schemes

Resumo da oferta

A leading software engineering consultancy is seeking a Practice Lead. This leadership role focuses on building and developing teams while ensuring high delivery standards and quality. The ideal candidate will have strong people management skills, technical acumen, and a passion for fostering team growth. This position allows for remote work with a focus on team well-being and a dynamic work environment, offering benefits such as private health care and mental health support.

Qualificações

• Strong technical acumen with a passion for people.
• Ability to guide team members through challenges.
• Experience in recruitment and onboarding processes.

Responsabilidades

• Lead hiring, retention, and development within your team.
• Manage performance reviews and training budget requests.
• Ensure delivery standards and quality across the team.

Conhecimentos

People management

Technical acumen

Relationship building

Documentation

Business acumen

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto. Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward and outperform their competitors. Our success comes from ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them.

Role

Practice Lead – Location: UK or Portugal | Department: Engineering | Employment Type: Permanent
This is an engineering leadership role with a strong people focus—owning hiring, retention, and development within your team. The role is non-billable, allowing you to focus on improving workflows, supporting team operations, and contributing to the long-term success of YLD's engineering organisation.

About You

You have strong technical acumen with a genuine passion for people. You are looking to continue on a management or engineering leadership track—or take your first steps into leadership. You are passionate about engineering, but above all, you care about the human side of it. You understand that software delivery at scale requires processes, coordination, and documentation. You are excited about creating an environment of trust, curiosity, and collaboration while driving consistent, high-quality delivery across our projects.

Responsibilities

• Development and Impact: Act as a role model and trusted advisor; guide and support your team through challenges, frustrations, and successes alike.
• Help team members set meaningful development and career goals; empower growth.
• Own skill development within your vertical and build growth pathway frameworks; ensure 100% of the team has a clear growth path.
• Recommend relevant training and materials; manage training budget requests aligned with development and work goals.
• Lead performance reviews; make recommendations for growth, promotions, and salary calibrations.
• Manage mentor assignments and coach Managers in leading others effectively.
• Guide probation, orientation, and full employee lifecycle including off-boarding.
• Keep the team informed on company policies and procedures; foster open, clear communication.
• Address performance or conduct challenges early, working with Client Partners and People Team.
• Coordinate bench support and engage engineers in learning opportunities during downtime.

• Technical Delivery & Client Partnership: Partner with Client Services to oversee all technical aspects of delivery; ensure client satisfaction and team happiness.
• Maintain delivery standards and quality across your team.
• Build and maintain relationships with client stakeholders; document technical decisions, value delivered, and learnings.
• Collaborate with other Practice Leads to source technical expertise; bring thought leadership to projects.

• Recruitment & Onboarding: Plan and execute recruitment strategies with Talent, Head of Engineering, and Client Services; develop interview frameworks and onboarding plans; ensure alignment on strategy and criteria; track recruitment progress.

Culture & Collaboration

• Lead with values-driven approach; build psychological safety through open and clear communication.
• Build strong relationships within your vertical and the wider team.
• Recognise signs of stress or ill health; create space for team wellbeing.
• Collaborate with Marketing to showcase impact; support proposals and proofs-of-concept.

Documentation & Strategic Initiatives

• Drive comprehensive documentation for best practices and guidelines; document client and project work for marketing and knowledge
• Support long-term strategic projects and scaling initiatives; identify opportunities to improve productivity and workflows.

What We Want From You

• You’re energized by developing people and seeing their growth.
• You excel at building relationships and creating psychological safety across teams and clients.
• You combine strong technical judgment with business acumen and thought leadership.

Who This Isn’t For

• You prefer hands-on technical work over people management.
• You’re uncomfortable with client relationships and business development involvement.
• You’re uncomfortable managing people expectations, salaries, and reviews.
• You don’t enjoy documentation, process creation, and framework building.

Benefits

• Company private health care; enhanced maternity/paternity leave up to 6 months.
• Company pension scheme (UK only).
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding public holidays).
• Annual allowances for training/conferences and hardware.
• Mental health support; access to wellbeing apps.
• Bonus (dependent on company performance); company laptop; generous referral schemes.

Recruitment Process

• Initial interview with Talent team (30–45 mins).
• Technical interview with Senior Developers (about 1h30).
• Scenario-based interview (about 1h30).

Equal Opportunity

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.