Engineering Manager

Skylum empowers millions of photographers to create incredible images. Our award-winning photo editing software combines AI-powered automation with full creative control. We make editing enjoyable, easy, and accessible for everyone.

You’ll join an environment where growth, learning, and creativity are encouraged. Flexible schedules, trust-based workflows, and a supportive team give you everything you need to focus on your best work.

🇺🇦 Proudly Ukrainian, Skylum stands with Ukraine through action, regularly supporting organizations that help accelerate our victory.

Main Goals:
Your mission as an engineering manager is to lead, manage, and support your team to achieve exceptional results, while fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and innovation.
KPIs:

• Team performance 
• Employee engagement
• Team efficiency (achieve maximum results with an optimal budget)
• Technology delivery
• Technical excellence

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of software engineers
• Oversee day-to-day agile executions, planning, process improvements, reporting and reviews
• Work closely with the team, report and cooperate directly with the CTO
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Product, Marketing, Engineering
• Run or join virtual teams for different cross-team projects delivery
• Ensure delivery on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in a fast-paced environment
• Technology quality ownership 
• Ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and deadlines
• Participate in release planning, sprint planning, and conflict resolution within or between scrum teams
• Work with product management to define the requirements/user stories, perform groomings and reviews
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Work with customer success teams to resolve critical customer issues
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
• Be both a technical leader and a thoughtful people manager
• Provide team members guidance, regular feedback, coaching, and mentoring
• Manage performance and conduct regular performance reviews
• Work closely together with recruiters to grow the team, participate in interviews, recruiting and onboarding processes
• Help the team solve technical challenges related to performance, fault-tolerance, security and scalability

Requirements:

• Strong motivator, leader, and team player with a record of leading and mentoring employees
• Proven practical experience in engineering management
• Background in Engineering/Team Lead role
• Experience in guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Experience in managing a development team 
• Experience in Image Processing / Video Processing
• Machine Learning and Data Analytics skills would be a plus

What we offer

For personal growth:

• A chance to work with a strong team and a unique opportunity to make substantial contributions to our award-winning photo editing tools;
• An educational allowance to ensure that your skills stay sharp;
• English, German, and Polish classes to strengthen your capabilities and widen your knowledge.

For comfort:

• A great environment where you’ll work with true professionals and amazing colleagues whom you’ll call friends quickly;
• The choice of working remotely or in our office space located on Podil, equipped with everything you might need for productive and comfortable work.

For health:

• Medical insurance;
• Twenty-one days of paid sick leave per year;

For leisure:

• Twenty-one days of paid vacation per year;
• Fun times at our frequent team-building activities.

What to expect when you apply

• An interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
• Professional Interview
• Management interview
• And finally, your job offer!