Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform (Portugal)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead the architecture, performance, and scalability of the Node.js-based platform running primarily on AWS
• ▹Ensure architectural decisions preserve hyperscaler portability across GCP, Azure, and other cloud providers
• ▹Own the technical direction of the platform and mentor senior engineers
• ▹Partner with product and engineering leadership to ship high-quality systems quickly
• ▹Manage a team of 10-15 developers: setting goals, running 1:1s, growing careers, hiring, and removing blockers
• ▹Balance roadmap delivery with engineering health: code quality, system reliability, on-call hygiene, and developer experience

Requirements

• ▹8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading engineering teams
• ▹Deep expertise architecting distributed systems on AWS (compute, networking, data, IAM, observability)
• ▹Strong Node.js background and a clear point of view on building maintainable services at scale
• ▹Experience designing platform-agnostic systems that can run on any major hyperscaler
• ▹Track record of improving performance, scalability, and deployment velocity in production
• ▹Proven ability to grow engineers, hire well, and run a team that ships consistently

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with multi-cloud or cloud-portable deployments (Kubernetes, Terraform, containerization)
• ▹Background scaling SaaS platforms or developer-facing products
• ▹AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer)

Soft skills