Engineering Manager Expert (Part-time)

Mate academy is an EdTech company with a gamified, AI-powered learning platform that helps people level up their skills, start new careers, and grow professionally.
🤘Already, 6500+ graduates have changed their careers and successfully started in IT.
🌎 We are actively growing in Ukraine and Poland, and this is only the beginning.
We’re opening a new track in our upskill line for engineering leaders, and it needs one thing to work: a real expert who has grown from engineer to manager of managers and has built strong engineering organizations. You’ll turn what you already know into the backbone of a course built around practical tasks per topic.
Your qualities and skills that will be valued:
10+ years in IT, with a path from engineer or tech lead to leading multiple teams and managers in a product or large service company.

5+ years in Engineering Manager roles or above, ideally including 2+ years of managing other EMs or tech leads.

Experience building and scaling engineering teams of 20+ people, including hiring, onboarding, and org design.

Strong people management practice: 1:1s, performance reviews, career matrices, and handling underperformance and terminations.

Hands-on ownership of engineering practices and metrics: code review, CI/CD, tech debt, DORA, and the balance between features and reliability.

The ability to work with business and product on planning and prioritization, and to justify technical decisions and team budgets.

Experience growing tech leads and EMs through mentoring or leadership development programs.

Your additional advantages:
Experience in both product and outsourcing companies, including work with distributed teams.

Experience introducing AI tools into engineering processes and measuring their impact on team productivity.

Experience creating learning programs, teaching, speaking at conferences, or writing articles on DOU.

Experience creating educational or professional content.

A technical background that still lets you dive deep into architecture.

Your responsibilities will include:
Improving the theoretical and practical assignments for the course, drawing on your own professional experience in the field.

Developing practical tasks related to specific functional objectives.

Running live Q&A sessions based on questions that students submit in advance via a form.

Flagging gaps in the theory and passing them back to the instructional design team.

We offer:
Mission to help millions of people advance their careers in the tech industry.

A minimum of bureaucracy.

An incredible team that takes pride in what they do, which makes work an exciting adventure.

Practice your soft-skills - mentoring is a great way to grow to Senior positions faster.

Hourly compensation and flexible schedule - your mentorship week will include 10+ hours of work that you can distribute throughout the week.

Our hiring process:
Interview with Course Producer.

Working session to walk through a real management case from your experience.

Interview with the instructional design team.

Job Offer.