The Role
We are seeking an experienced, driven, and customer‑focused Engineering Manager to lead our team of skilled engineers in the development and delivery of Nitro's Sign product, API and integrations. The ideal candidate will have a relentless focus on delivering an exceptional user experience, a strong technical background, proven leadership abilities, and experience in managing teams operating under Agile and Scrum frameworks. You will play a pivotal role in driving team performance, ensuring high‑quality software delivery, and fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of front‑end, back‑end and QA engineers, taking accountability for delivery across your team.
Actively foster a high bar for engineering excellence with a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.
Encourage and enable a customer‑centric mindset within the team, working closely with our product and partner teams to develop solutions that exceed our customer expectations.
Support professional growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance reviews.
Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.
Lead communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focused space for engineers to do their best work.
Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to and improve company‑wide best managerial and technical practices and standards.
Champion and implement modern development practices and workflows to maximise team efficiency and transparency, using metrics to identify process improvements and make data‑driven decisions.
Align engineering efforts with business goals, product vision, and technical strategy.
Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
Required Skills and Qualifications
3–5+ years as an Engineering Manager in a software development environment with direct experience leading cross‑functional teams.
Strong understanding of application development and release management.
Experience working on APIs and enterprise integrations is a plus.
Track record of shipping user‑focused applications and products.
Hands‑on experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, unit testing, and version control (Git).
Proven experience leading teams using Agile and/or Scrum methodologies.
Ability to quickly build trust, motivate, mentor, and develop high‑performing teams.
Strong communication, organisational, and decision‑making skills.
Ability to work with a diverse set of teams and individuals with various working styles to drive clarity, make decisions and simply get things done.
Experience working cross‑functionally with Product, Design, QA and marketing teams.
Benefits
Along with our regular benefits and programs (including health, dental, vision, and retirement as standard), we are also proud to offer a few additional initiatives to future Nitro employees:
Flex Time Off – Work‑life balance is important at Nitro, and we understand that there are events that we cannot plan for. Flex Time Off can be used for holidays, spending days with your family, or appointments.
Hybrid Work – Our team embraces the hybrid work model, appreciating its blend of flexibility and structure. We combine three days of in‑person collaboration at our global offices (Toronto, Dublin, Antwerp, Porto, and Melbourne) with the convenience of two days of remote work each week.
Comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental and vision coverage, wellness perks, pension/401k matching, and many other country‑specific benefits.
Nitro strongly encourages applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We provide an accessible candidate experience and invite you to request any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond.
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