{"id":741967,"url":"https://alion.io/job/stora-engineering-manager","title":"Engineering Manager","company":{"id":685945,"name":"Stora","domain":"stora.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/stora","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Belfast, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":86000,"max_usd":187000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":22},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ruby","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":true},{"name":"Heroku","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Minitest","optional":true},{"name":"Playwright","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"React.js","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"Sass","optional":true},{"name":"Sidekiq","optional":true},{"name":"TimescaleDB","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-28T18:14:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-28","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T01:43:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":26,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":26},"description":"About Stora\nStora is building the operating platform for modern self-storage businesses.\nOur software helps operators manage bookings, payments, customers, facilities and day-to-day operations from one place, while automating much of the work that traditionally makes running a self-storage business unnecessarily complicated.\nIn just over five years, Stora has grown from an early-stage product into a platform used by more than 500 operators.\nWe’re a product-led, remote-first company with an experienced engineering team and ambitious plans for what comes next.\nNow, as the engineering organisation grows, we’re hiring an Engineering Manager to make sure the way we lead, develop and support engineers grows with it.\nThe Role\nThis is a genuine people leadership role.\nYou’ll manage approximately 12 engineers working across three product teams, with the team expected to continue growing.\nEach product team has a Tech Lead responsible for technical direction, alongside Product and Design. Your focus is different: the engineers themselves.\nThis isn’t a role for somebody looking to move away from engineering completely, though. You’ll need enough technical depth to understand the work, follow engineering discussions and ask good questions without needing to be the person making every technical decision.\nYou’ll work closely with our Head of Engineering and have support from People, but you’ll have meaningful autonomy to improve how engineering management works at Stora.\nWhat Else You’ll Own\nEngineering Management\nManage engineers across multiple product teams through regular, useful 1:1s, coaching and clear feedback.\n\nMake expectations clear and help engineers understand what good performance looks like.\n\nIdentify performance issues early and handle difficult conversations properly when needed.\n\nSupport engineers in progressing from junior through senior and beyond.\n\nBuild strong relationships with engineers without creating unnecessary management overhead.\n\nPerformance & Progression\nOwn the engineering performance and progression approach.\n\nReview and improve our existing career levels, expectations and review processes.\n\nMake promotion and progression decisions that are consistent, evidence-based and understood by the team.\n\nCreate a culture where feedback happens throughout the year rather than being saved for formal reviews.\n\nHiring & Team Development\nOwn engineering hiring alongside the relevant Tech Leads and wider team.\n\nHelp define what we need before a search begins, assess candidates properly and maintain a high hiring bar.\n\nEnsure new engineers have a structured and useful onboarding experience.\n\nThink proactively about team composition, capability gaps and future hiring needs.\n\nTeam Health\nPay attention to engagement, retention, collaboration and emerging people issues across the engineering organisation.\n\nWork with Tech Leads when team problems sit somewhere between technical delivery, behaviour and team dynamics.\n\nHelp maintain a strong remote engineering culture as Stora grows.\n\nTechnical Context\nStay close enough to the engineering work to understand what the team is solving and the environment they’re working within.\n\nBe comfortable reading code, following pull requests and participating intelligently in technical conversations.\n\nPartner with Tech Leads without competing with them for technical ownership.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nAfter your first year, we’d expect:\nEngineers to have a clear understanding of what is expected of them and how they can progress.\n\nManagers and engineers to be having better, more useful conversations about performance and development.\n\nPerformance issues to be addressed early rather than becoming surprises.\n\nA progression framework that works for the engineering organisation Stora has become, not the company we were several years ago.\n\nStronger and more consistent hiring and onboarding.\n\nThe Head of Engineering spending less time acting as the default people manager for the entire engineering organisation.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager, rather than somebody taking their first step into management.\nYou’ll ideally have:\nPrevious experience directly managing software engineers across more than one team or product area.\n\nA strong track record of developing engineers at different stages of their careers.\n\nHands-on experience managing performance, including difficult or underperformance situations.\n\nExperience making promotion and progression decisions.\n\nExperience running or improving engineering career frameworks, review cycles or progression processes.\n\nPrevious experience hiring software engineers and building effective interview processes.\n\nAn engineering background that allows you to understand code and contribute meaningfully to technical conversations.\n\nThe judgement to know when to get involved and when to leave technical decisions with the Tech Leads.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in a remote environment.\n\nA practical understanding of how AI tools are changing software engineering and experience using them in your own work.\n\nExperience with Ruby or Rails would be useful, but it isn’t essential.\nWe’re much more interested in whether you can lead engineers well.\nWhat This Role Isn’t\nIt’s worth being clear that this isn’t:\na Tech Lead role with some people management added on;\n\na delivery or project management position;\n\na Product Manager role;\n\na hands-on engineering role where you’ll spend most of your week writing production code;\n\na first Engineering Manager opportunity.\n\nTechnical leadership already exists within the product teams.\nWe’re hiring you because engineering management itself deserves dedicated ownership.\nOur Technology\nYou won’t be expected to spend most of your time writing production code, but you should be comfortable working around our stack.\nBackend: Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, TimescaleDB\nFrontend: Turbo, React, ViewComponents, Sass\nTesting: Minitest, Playwright\nDeployment: GitHub Actions, Heroku\nSalary & Benefits\nSalary: Highly competitive and depending on experience\n\nLocation: Fully remote within the UK or Ireland\n\nBelfast office: Available for anyone who wants to use it\n\nPrivate health insurance for you and your family\n\nCompany pension\n\n35 days’ annual leave inclusive of applicable public/statutory holidays, depending on location\n\nLearning and development support\n\nShare options\n\nWork-from-home budget\n\nOur Hiring Process\nWe’re reviewing applications as they arrive rather than waiting for a closing date.\nIf your experience looks like a strong match, we’ll explain the process clearly from the outset and move quickly.\n Equal Opportunities at Stora\nStora is an equal opportunities employer.c\nWe want to build a workplace where people are treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and where different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are valued.\nWe welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religious belief or political opinion, or sexual orientation.\nRecruitment and employment decisions are based on merit, competence and business need, and we promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation.\nIf you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7485,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Health insurance","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United 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