Engineering Manager

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We would like to meet an Engineering Manager for a project with a remote working model.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of backend engineers (including external partners), ensuring clarity of expectations, strong collaboration, and consistent delivery
• Be responsible for the delivery and reliability of critical e-commerce services
• Improve scalability, resilience, and observability across the systems the team owns
• Help the team become more autonomous by improving how they work and reducing operational overhead
• Foster a culture of ownership and accountability, where issues are surfaced and addressed early
• Provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and performance when needed
• Manage technical debt pragmatically, balancing speed with long-term sustainability
• Contribute to the technical direction of the domain and help evolve it over time
• Improve transparency by ensuring decisions, processes, and system knowledge are clearly documented and easy to access

Requirements:

• Experience managing backend engineering teams in production environments
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
• Experience in e-commerce systems, including transactional domains (payments, orders, checkout) and catalog/search platforms
• Proven ability to balance delivery with long-term system health
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs under pressure
• Track record of developing engineers and building high-performing teams

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us

• Long-term projects with national and international context
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability

Join us

Send us your CV in English to [email protected] with reference “MA / EMLR”.

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At Decskill, we are committed to equal opportunities and non-discrimination. We promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, where recruitment and career progression are based solely on talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with human dignity. (colocar esta nota em todos os anúncios).