Engineering Manager
Employer · TOPdesk
IT manager
Software developerFull-timeBudapest
TOPdesk builds service management software used across education, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. As an Engineering Manager, you lead one or two teams with a specific technical mission—front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform—giving both people and technical direction, and owning what your teams ship. You set team-level technical direction within wider architectural guardrails, grow strong engineers into stronger ones, and own delivery and operational outcomes.
Tasks
- Set technical direction and standards for your teams' domain, alongside your engineers.
- Make and steward the key technical decisions; uphold quality, security, and operational stability.
- Contribute to system and architecture decisions for your domain with the Enterprise Architects and your peers.
- Coach and develop your engineers — including growing strong ones into senior and staff engineers.
- Hire, and act on tough talent calls with clarity and care.
- Own your teams' roadmap commitments and delivery and operational outcomes; protect cycle time, quality, and operational stability.
- Keep review sustainable in an agentic SDLC — ensure your teams do not create excessive review burden or unnecessary code, match agent autonomy to the risk of the task, and keep human accountability clear.
- Raise the engineering bar for your domain; make standards explicit and inspectable.
- Operate agents yourself — build the subagents, evals, and patterns your team reuses, and contribute them back to the shared libraries.
Requirements
- Engineering manager with a track record of growing engineers — including into senior and staff roles — and owning team delivery.
- A strong technical foundation in a relevant domain (front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform) — you set team-level technical direction, not just run process.
- Current, personal practice of AI-native software delivery (Claude Code or equivalent) — you can show your work and lead by example.
- Strong on talent development; comfortable acting on tough calls.
- Comfortable in ambiguity and inside legacy codebases; a strong communicator.