Engineering Manager - Portals

Every day, millions of people rely on WeTransfer to share their creative ideas.

Having made its name in the game of quick and simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has grown into an end-to-end suite of digital solutions with more than 87 million monthly active users in 190 countries. Beyond the WeTransfer.com platform, we have the storytelling platform WePresent, quick slide-making tool Paste, immersive sketching app Paper, and inspiration-capturing tool Collect. We design and deliver delightful experiences that continue to feel obvious and intuitive to millions of people—from our moms to your favorite artists. As a certified B-Corp, WeTransfer aims to be a sustainable and responsible tech company, balancing people, planet, and profit

So, the work we do matters. Come and be a part of it.

We are looking for a talented, product focused Engineering Manager to join the Emerging Products area at WeTransfer. Our focus is to test, validate and build new and innovative products leveraging the strengths we have as a business. Our focus is around building things quickly, testing and iterating to get signals from the market. Engineering Managers in our emerging products group will work with other core aspects of the business to quickly iterate on innovative ideas and products, making tradeoffs around build vs buy reducing engineering complexity and improving time to market.

What you'll be doing

• Oversee and lead the technical direction of a product team within the Emerging Products portfolio

• Set the standard for engineering excellence within the team 

• Manage the smooth and timely delivery of all features for that product

• Be responsible for the quality of features to our level of polish, robustness and accessibility

• Partner with creative and data engineering teams for testing, optimisation, reporting and insights 

• Facilitate collaboration with other engineering teams and product managers to solve exciting and challenging problems across the Emerging Products area. 

• Balance priorities of your teams and enable them to effectively complete long term projects while fixing bugs, managing technical debt, and offer support to the engineering organisation

• Directly manage, mentor and coach a team of highly skilled frontend, backend and full-stack engineers

• Set and monitor performance goals for teams and individuals, providing feedback through reviews, one-on-one’s, and regular discussions

• Connect Emerging engineering to the rest of the business by clearly communicating business goals to your engineering teams, as well as technical solutions to stakeholders

What we are looking for 

• Experience in encouraging a healthy engineering culture in an agile environment

• A passionate learner who isn't afraid of new tools and technologies and loves to share their knowledge and experience.

• Enthusiasm for both what we build and how we build it

• Deep knowledge of security, performance and the accessibility of web based products

• Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software engineers towards delivering high quality, high availability software

• Experience overseeing the implementation of software for scale using design patterns that reduce waste and improve delivery

• Experience of testing and rolling out robust software solutions

• Keen sense of modern technology trends and experience working with modern frameworks and services

• Someone who values open and honest communication and good teamwork to achieve a shared vision

• Experience in process implementation and in actively challenging engineers to produce meaningful products

• Affinity for excellent design and user experience

• Broad technical and creative interests (we'd love to see any side projects you enjoy)

• Self-directed, analytical, highly responsible and work well in a team environment

• Strong verbal and written communications skills (English)

WeTransfer is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our people. We welcome you, and everything that makes you—well, you. That includes your gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, or disability status.

A note on remote

Our work environment is hybrid-remote, meaning that we support our employees to work remotely and in the office. We encourage employees to decide for themselves and with their team whether or when to go to the office.

We currently use an Employer of Record to hire remote roles with specific location-based eligibility requirements. You must have the right to reside and to work in the location you will be working from.

Background screening

While it is not necessarily a determining or disqualifying factor for any role, you may be required to complete a standard employment background screening..