Senior Engineering Manager, AI-Powered UCaaS

Broadvoice; Portugal; Remote; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadvoice is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the b-hive Engineering team, a group of around 20 engineers and leads that builds our AI-powered UCaaS platform, including the Communicator apps (web, desktop, iOS and Android) and the Portal.

Reporting to the VP of Software Engineering, this role owns day-to-day delivery and people management of b-hive, ensuring we ship reliable, scalable and intelligent communications to our customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering, including at least 4 years in people management, with experience managing team leads.
• Proven track record leading teams of 10+ engineers delivering a cloud-based SaaS product in production.
• Solid technical background in cloud-native architectures, microservices and distributed systems (AWS preferred).
• Experience with web and mobile applications in production, ideally in the same product.
• Experience with real-time communications systems (VoIP, SIP, WebRTC), ideally in UCaaS, CCaaS or adjacent sectors.
• Familiarity with agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and with using metrics to improve team performance.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management, with hands-on credibility in technical discussions.
• Fluent in Portuguese and English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Lead the b-hive Engineering team, managing the team leads and coordinating the work across Communicator and Portal.
• Deliver the b-hive roadmap together with Product Management, ensuring clear specifications, realistic estimates and achievable timelines.
• Deliver AI-driven features in b-hive that improve automation, analytics and customer experience.
• Work with the Staff Engineers and leads on technical decisions, keeping the platform scalable, resilient and secure, aligned with the architecture direction defined within Engineering.
• Hire, mentor and develop engineers and leads, owning onboarding, performance reviews and career growth.
• Run planning, release and risk management, making explicit the trade-offs between scope, quality and time.
• Define and follow delivery and quality metrics (e.g. lead time, change failure rate, escaped defects) and act on them.
• Apply and improve engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, code review standards and AI adoption in the SDLC.
• Collaborate with QA, UX/UI, SRE and other engineering teams to ensure smooth and well-coordinated releases.
• Support the VP in managing contractor capacity and vendor performance.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architectures

Microservices

Distributed systems

AWS

Web and mobile apps

Real-time communications (VoIP/SIP/Web

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Code reviews

Job description

Broadvoice is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the b-hive Engineering team, a group of around 20 engineers and leads that builds our AI-powered UCaaS platform, including the Communicator apps (web, desktop, iOS and Android) and the Portal.

Reporting to the VP of Software Engineering, this role owns day-to-day delivery and people management of b-hive, ensuring we ship reliable, scalable and intelligent communications to our customers.