Engineering Director

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Hire, coach, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping them raise their own ambitions rather than settle for business as usual
• ▹Take direct ownership of underperforming teams or unresolved problems and fix them yourself when needed
• ▹Champion a you-build-it-you-own-it culture: full accountability from writing code through production, including observability, incident response, postmortems, and learning from failure
• ▹Partner with stakeholders across the business (product, other engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners) to make sure the right problems get addressed, not just the loudest ones
• ▹Bring clarity and structure to a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment, without slowing it down
• ▹Champion AI-assisted engineering across your teams, and help close any gaps in AI adoption
• ▹Help define how outcome and impact, not just output, gets measured and communicated for platform and internal-facing teams, where the connection to revenue isn't always obvious

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• ▹A track record of building and owning products and services in production over the long run
• ▹Real comfort with, or strong openness to, PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Python, Node.js, Go, and/or Vue.js: true generalists who can pick up any stack, with the help of AI tools
• ▹Genuine, active enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering; you are expected to pull your teams forward on adoption, not catch up to them
• ▹Comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving processes, and fast-changing priorities
• ▹A resilient, self-directed way of working: this is a senior, largely independent role without a large peer group at the same level
• ▹Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to give and take direct feedback
• ▹Excellent communication skills in English

Nice to have

• ▹Experience scaling up from a smaller company or startup
• ▹A background in digital, consumer-facing (B2C) product companies

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Learning opportunities: access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, feedback culture, mentoring through TesoXchange, internal mobility
• ▹Flexible work: modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, home, or anywhere in the world, flexible schedule
• ▹Insurance from day one, gym memberships, recharge leave, Headspace subscriptions, regular health checks
• ▹Wellbeing events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs
• ▹Company events (Summerfest, Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client), team-buildings, and workations
• ▹Access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations

About the company

Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries and describes itself as an AI-first company. Its work is guided by 10 company principles.