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.