Engineering Manager, EMEA (Core) - Testlio

About the Role

Testlio is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team behind the core of our platform: the capabilities clients use every day to plan, run, and manage their testing. You will own technical direction and delivery for these domains, raise the team's operating standards, and modernize systems that have carried the product for years. This role reports to the Director of Engineering.

Note: This is a 100% remote role open to candidates residing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Estonia. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Why will you love this job?

• Own the Core: Lead the team responsible for the capabilities at the heart of the client experience, with direct ownership of technical direction and delivery.
• Agentic Workflows: Lead how AI agents are embedded into the platform's core capabilities, moving beyond assistive features toward workflows that can plan, execute, and adapt testing work.
• Modernize the Foundation: Turn accumulated complexity into leverage, building a solid transactional foundation to enable reliable agentic behavior.
• Product Partnership: Work closely with a dedicated product manager on discovery, prioritization, and outcomes, with real influence over both the roadmap and the architecture behind it.

What would your day look like?

Shaping What's Next

• Stay Close to the Code: Spend roughly 20–30% of your time on hands-on engineering, including writing production code, providing substantive reviews on critical-path pull requests, and signing off on key technical designs.
• Agentic Workflows: Lead the design and delivery of agentic workflows in the core of the product.
• Technical Direction: Set multi-quarter technical direction for your domains, partnering with the AI/ML team on underlying models and frameworks.
• Platform Modernization: Consolidate a fragmented data model, evolve legacy services, and bring transactional integrity to older data stores.
• Roadmap Ownership: Turn strategy into a sequenced roadmap with your product partner and own technical delivery from concept to production.

Running It with Rigor

• Engineering Operating Rhythm: Establish effective planning, prioritization, and design review practices balancing delivery speed with scalability.
• Production Support: Own production support for your domains, including triage, escalation management, and root-cause resolution.
• Reliability and Observability: Define service level objectives, build performance dashboards, and lead root-cause analysis on production issues.
• Engineering Standards: Ensure work is traceable and the Definition of Done is consistently met, minimizing escaped defects and keeping cloud costs in check.
• Team Growth: Coach engineers technically, bring AI-assisted development workflows into daily practice, and reduce knowledge silos.

What do you need to succeed?

Technical Skills

• Engineering Management: 5+ years managing a team of 4+ engineers in an agile, remote environment.
• Hands-on Technical Leadership: Recent experience writing production code and designing or evolving production systems.
• LLM & Agentic Experience: Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic features in production, or a strong track record of leading a team into a new technical domain quickly.
• Technical Stack: Strong affinity with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, and React. Experience designing and building APIs is essential; GraphQL and Kafka are a plus.
• Observability & Performance: Experience with APM tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Sentry) and optimizing slow database transactions.
• Application Security: Knowledge of application security best practices and integrating security review into the SDLC.
• Legacy Modernization: Experience modernizing legacy systems or paying down significant technical debt.

Human Skills

• Fluency in English with excellent written and verbal communication.
• Collaborative approach, working effectively with cross-functional partners in a distributed, asynchronous setting.
• Organized, thorough, and meticulous approach to standards and process.
• Growth catalyst passionate about team productivity, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Results-oriented with data-driven decision-making.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible paid time off (national holidays, personal days, and sick days).
• Stock options so you can grow with Testlio.
• $300 annual learning stipend for personal and professional development.
• Fully remote, asynchronous work culture with tools and guidance to succeed.