Engineering Manager

About the position:As an Engineering Manager at Trevolution, you will combine people leadership, technical leadership, and product thinking. You will lead the engineering team through the modernization of a large-scale, business-critical platform, while ensuring reliable delivery and continuous improvements in scalability, performance, and engineering practices.A key part of the role is driving an AI-first approach to software engineering. We are looking for a hands-on and proactive leader who identifies opportunities, takes initiative, makes pragmatic technical decisions, and turns ideas into measurable results. You should be comfortable getting into the details when needed, challenging existing approaches, and actively driving meaningful improvements.Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop the engineering team, foster ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the team's technical strategy and roadmap in alignment with product and business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Lead the modernization of a large-scale platform, including refactoring, architectural improvements, and reducing technical debt.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance long-term architecture with business priorities and delivery needs.
• Partner closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Design, and other technical teams to ensure effective collaboration and delivery.
• Support planning, prioritization, and delivery of complex technical initiatives, managing dependencies, risks, and priorities.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, development practices, and technical quality standards.
• Drive improvements in platform reliability, observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident management.
• Connect engineering decisions to measurable metrics.
• Drive an AI-first engineering culture, embedding AI into the software development lifecycle and identifying opportunities to improve productivity, quality, and delivery.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Team Lead, or similar technical leadership role.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing software engineering teams.
• Strong people's management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Experience with relational databases, large datasets, REST APIs, asynchronous communication, queues, and integrations.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud environments.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems.
• Technical credibility and the ability to understand, challenge, and lead technical decisions across a large and evolving legacy technology landscape.
• Comfortable leading engineers in an environment where AI is a fundamental part of the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business impact and drive change.
• Curiosity and willingness to continuously explore emerging AI engineering tools and practices.

Nice to Have:

• Experience transforming monolithic systems into modular or microservice-based architectures.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization initiatives.

Our stack:

• Backend: PHP, Symfony
• Frontend: TypeScript, React
• Data storages: MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcached
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux
• Monitoring: ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry

Our Working Model:

• We believe great ideas happen together. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days working from our office and 2 days remotely.

With us you will:

• Be a part of a top-tier team of professionals, work on global projects that reach millions worldwide, and create complex, one-of-a-kind in-house products and solutions.
• Learn and exchange ideas in lectures and workshops led by colleagues and team leads.
• Get health benefits: fully covered health insurance after the end of the trial period (dentistry, out-patient treatment, mental health, medicine, etc.), well-being activities, and vaccinations.
• Enjoy employee discount programs and have fun at monthly internal activities and celebrations.
• Work from a modern and well-equipped office in the center of Riga, with parking spaces for bikes and scooters, fresh fruits, and coffee daily.

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Personnel selection is provided by the competence center of the Dyninno group DYNATECH LLC, Reg. No. 40203110019, address: Jeruzalemes Street 1, Riga, LV-1010, license issued by the SEA for the provision of work placement services No.61/2021 (17.11.2021.)