Engineering Manager | Remote | Europe

Job summary

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n*** is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits.

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Qualifications

• MUST-HAVES
• First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization.
• You’ve led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health.
• Relevant domain experience: You've led engineering teams working in one of the following areas
• Billing & licensing: subscription, billing, payments, metering, or licensing/entitlement systems
• Governance & observability: audit logging, monitoring/observability tooling, admin/access controls, or compliance-related features
• Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.
• Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.
• Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.

Responsibilities

• BUILD AN EMPOWERED, HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.
• Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n***.
• CREATE CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE AS THE LANDSCAPE EVOLVES
• Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.
• Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.
• Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.
• DRIVE EXECUTION WITH SPEED, JUDGMENT, AND ALIGNMENT
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
• Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.
• Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

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