Remote Engineering Manager — Real-Time, Distributed Systems
Jobgether
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Job summary
Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager for Realtime in Portugal to lead a globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure team focused on messaging, presence, and data synchronization. You will guide technical strategy, incident response, and delivery while fostering a high-trust culture in a remote-first environment.
You will oversee roadmap execution, mentor senior engineers, and partner with stakeholders to ensure scalable, reliable services with strong engineering governance and cost
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Proven track record leading remote teams across time zones.
- Experience with low-latency, high-connection services (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging).
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts (scaling, rate limiting, backpressure).
- Experience handling production incidents and blameless post-incident reviews.
- Familiarity with real-time APIs/SDKs for external customers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Realtime engineering team across people management, technical direction, and delivery.
- Own the team's roadmap and project execution using Linear.
- Coordinate workflows, prioritize requests, and maintain stakeholder alignment.
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Job description
Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager for Realtime in Portugal to lead a globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure team focused on messaging, presence, and data synchronization. You will guide technical strategy, incident response, and delivery while fostering a high-trust culture in a remote-first environment.
You will oversee roadmap execution, mentor senior engineers, and partner with stakeholders to ensure scalable, reliable services with strong engineering governance and cost
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