Engineering Manager

Benifex; Göteborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ITP1 pension

Lifeplan pension advisory

Collective agreement

Benefits portal access

Wellness allowance

30 vacation days/year

Referral bonuses

Enhanced parental pay

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Benifex is a fast-moving technology company delivering online reward and employee benefits solutions. As Engineering Manager, you will lead two software teams (Gothenburg and nearshore Poland) delivering critical platform components, driving performance, and enabling autonomous delivery in a distributed setup.

You will coach engineers, optimize delivery, and partner with Product Managers to align roadmaps. This senior role focuses on people, delivery, and continuous improvement, with a strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager with strong leadership and seniority.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop two engineering teams with strong delivery performance and continuous improvement.
• Act as first escalation point for engineers, guiding work, removing blockers, and supporting day-to-day delivery.
• Own delivery outcomes across teams, track progress, velocity, and ensure roadmap commitments are met.
• Partner with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align on roadmap, priorities, and execution.
• Coach engineers and tech leads, providing feedback and supporting growth.
• Drive agile ways of working with ceremonies, execution, and team autonomy.
• Standardise and evolve engineering practices and processes with other Engineering Managers.
• Facilitate collaboration across distributed teams including nearshore delivery and knowledge sharing.
• Use OKRs and metrics to measure quality and progress.
• Champion adoption of AI and modern tooling to improve efficiency.
• Recognise achievements to build engagement and morale.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Agile methods

Delivery focus

Cross-functional

Software engineering

AI/ML tooling

Communication

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Jira

Job description

Who are Benifex?

We are a fast-moving technology company and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in.

Why should you apply?

• Lead two high-impact engineering teams working on the core of our platform, where your work directly influence product delivery and customer value.
• Join a collaborative software engineering community across the Nordics and UK, where you’ll shape ways of working and drive continuous improvement together.
• Be empowered to take ownership - this is a role for someone who thrives on autonomy, proactivity, and making tangible improvements.
• Work with experienced, high-performing engineers in a complex product environment that offers both technical and organisational challenges.
• Play a key role in driving adoption of modern practices including AI-enabled ways of working and scalable engineering processes.
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and employee benefits space.

Great benefits:

• ITP1 pension.
• Lifeplan - a leading financial advisory service that offers personalized advice for maximizing your pension savings.
• Collective agreement.
• Access to our comprehensive benefits portal.
• Generous wellness allowance.
• 30 vacation days / year.
• Referral bonuses.
• Enhanced parental pay.
• Volunteer Days – two paid days annually to give back to the community.

Role Overview

As an Engineering Manager at Benifex, you will lead two software engineering teams of five engineers each, responsible for critical parts of our platform. One team is based in Gothenburg, where you will have full people management responsibility, while the other is a nearshore team in Poland where you will own delivery and performance. You will drive delivery, coach teams to improve performance, and ensure smooth collaboration across this distributed setup. This is a senior leadership role with a strong focus on people, delivery, and continuous improvement. Success in this role means proactively identifying opportunities, removing bottlenecks, and enabling your teams to consistently perform at their best.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop two engineering teams, ensuring strong delivery performance, clear accountability, and continuous improvement across teams.
• Act as first escalation point for engineers, guiding work, estimations, removing blockers, and supporting day-to-day delivery.
• Own delivery outcomes across teams, tracking progress, velocity, and ensuring commitments against roadmap and goals are met.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align on roadmap, priorities, and execution.
• Coach engineers and tech leads, providing feedback, supporting growth, and strengthening overall team capability.
• Drive agile ways of working, ensuring effective ceremonies, strong execution, and continuous improvement while balancing team autonomy.
• Standardise and evolve engineering practices and processes (e.g. code quality, ways of working) together with other Engineering Managers.
• Facilitate collaboration across distributed teams, including nearshore delivery responsibility, and reduce dependency on key individuals through knowledge sharing.
• Use OKRs, metrics, and delivery tracking to measure quality, performance, and progress.
• Champion adoption of AI and modern tooling to improve engineering efficiency and effectiveness.
• Recognise achievements and milestones to build engagement, morale, and a strong team culture.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager with strong leadership seniority and a track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, feedback, and the ability to build trust and motivation in teams.
• Experience leading engineering teams with a focus on delivery, continuous improvement, and measurable results.
• Strong technical understanding, ideally from a software engineering background, with ability to translate product requirements into team plans, capacity, and execution.
• Solid understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), including sprint planning, estimation, task breakdown, and iterative delivery.
• Ability to drive engineering quality, including high coding standards, maintainability, testing practices, and prevention of technical debt.
• Collaborative and empathetic leadership style with strong communication skills and ability to work closely with engineers, tech leads, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• Strong interest in modern engineering practices, including Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG) and adoption of AI/tools to improve efficiency.
• Passion for product and quality, with a focus on both why we build (user value) and how we build (engineering standards and excellence).