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Senior Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Secfix
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · EMEA, Germany
Experience
Senior · 8+ years

Job description

Engineering Manager at Secfix who owns technical decisions, sets the pace of delivery, and manages and hires the engineering team while still building with them occasionally. The role reports directly to the CTO and focuses on speed, quality, and AI-assisted development.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · EMEA, Germany

What you'll do

  • Get into the codebase and ship a meaningful feature with AI alongside the team in the first month
  • Find where features take three weeks that should take one and fix it — in tooling, in how we review and test, or in who's working on what
  • Start regular 1:1s with each engineer, focused on weekly output, quality, and how well they use AI
  • Take over engineering interviews and build a process that runs without the CTO's oversight; design technical challenges, run screens, make the calls
  • Own how the team builds: how engineers test, how they review each other's code and security, how the team is organised, and who we hire next
  • Refine software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity; own cycle time from spec to production
  • Improve how engineers test and automate, how they review each other's code and security changes, and how the zero-bug policy survives a team of 20
  • Own team structure, growth conversations, the hiring process, and eventually the next manager
  • Keep pushing the encoded skills and rules playbook for AI-assisted engineering, and apply AI to management work such as hiring and 1:1s
  • Build something with the team now and then to keep the playbook proven

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years as a software engineer, including 4+ years managing a team of 8+ and hiring for it yourself
  • Shipped AI features to production — retrieval, RAG, agentic workflows — and knows the difference between a demo that works and one that holds up on real customer data
  • Product taste: a keen sense for what makes a product feel great, and the habit of saying so when it doesn't
  • Built and shipped with Claude Code and Cursor in real production work, with opinions about where AI helps and where it quietly creates debt
  • Engineer at heart: senior or principal before managing, can still hold their own in a design review, a debugging session, or building a feature
  • Built something zero to one at a startup, or scaled a team through the messy middle
  • Able to work in European timezone (CET/CEST); EMEA-based, ideally Germany or UK
  • Managed a real team and made it ship faster, with hiring experience and hard conversations, and can point to where cycle time dropped
  • Knows what great engineers look like and can spot one in a single interview
  • Holds people to a high standard and is comfortable giving direct feedback and having hard performance conversations
  • Has worked in startups with low process
  • Communicates proactively in writing and is comfortable pairing

Nice to have

  • Grown a team to 15+ at a VC-funded startup
  • Managed tech leads or a second manager
  • Previous experience at a fully remote company

Your team

Engineering

8 engineers and 2 product designers today, planning to be around 16 within 12 months; small, temporary teams form around problems, ship, and dissolve.

Benefits

  • 100% remote with a real virtual office in Gather
  • Competitive salary benchmarked to European market rates
  • Generous equity package
  • €1,000/year development budget
  • Remote workspace support + co-working access
  • 26 days holiday + local public holidays
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Annual retreat (past locations include Alicante, the Austrian Alps, Portugal, Italy, and the Spanish Islands)
  • MacBook, monitors, headphones — the latest tech

How to get hired

  1. 130 min — Intro call with our talent team
  2. 245 min — Interview with Grigory
  3. 360 min — Technical interview
  4. 41.5 hr — AI-assisted build session: system design for a real feature, then building part of it with AI
  5. 52 hr — Leadership session with the founders
  6. 6Offer; if no offer is made, they will tell you why

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About Secfix

Security compliance systems for teams and agents

Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs needing ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, and SOC 2. Its platform integrates with a company's full tech stack — AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, GCP, and more — automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification in weeks instead of months.

Mission

Building security compliance systems for teams and agents to become and stay compliant with less effort.

Key facts

  • Security compliance software
  • Category leader in Europe
  • Raised €17M in total (€12M Series A)
  • Backed by Alstin Capital, Neosfer (Commerzbank), and Bayern Capital
  • On a profitable trajectory
  • Fastest customer certified in 4 weeks instead of the industry-standard 12+ months
  • Over 1.78 million SMBs in Europe need to comply with security frameworks
  • New AI product CISO AI is just getting started
  • Team of 8 engineers and 2 product designers

Partners & customers

Alstin CapitalNeosfer (Commerzbank)Bayern Capital

What they value

  • Speed
  • Taste
  • Quality as identity
  • Zero-bugs
  • Focus is sacred
  • We build what customers need, not what they ask for
  • AI is already part of the craft