We have real traction and proven scale, and we're now setting up how engineering works for our next wave of European growth. You would lead one of the teams doing it, and shape the practices the others follow.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You would lead one of our product engineering teams: what it ships, how it runs, and how the people in it grow. Product and engineering together are ~25 people, so there is nowhere to hide and nothing you can't reach.
It's a hands-on role. One week you're in a design review, the next - in a few Claude-enabled contributions, the next - in performance conversations, and most weeks - all of that combined. You should love zooming in and out, from feedback on an API spec to a quarter's priorities. Your team trusts your technical judgement because you still use it.
Beyond your team, you would shape how engineering works at Insify together with the other Engineering Managers, a Staff Engineer and the VP Engineering: architecture, product discovery, how engineers grow.
What you'll be doing
Leading a team of product engineers end to end: what you ship, how it performs in production, and who you hire and grow to get there
Bringing architecture and product thinking into the team's daily work, so that new product demands turn into platform capabilities that scale across countries and insurance products, rather than one-off builds
Running product discovery with your team: working with the Insurance, Operations and Growth teams on what to build, and saying no when the answer is no
Shaping company-wide engineering practices alongside the other Engineering Managers: ways of working, architecture & technology practices, the growth framework
Challenging our ideas and bringing your own. We encourage each other to act this way, so you can expect the same from others
What you'll need
You've managed a team of engineers before, including hiring, feedback and growing people. It doesn't have to be for long, but it has to be real and you have to want more of it
Years of hands-on experience designing and running distributed systems, including time spent maintaining what you designed. You can still carry an architecture discussion and review a design, and your team would trust your judgement on it
A track record of shaping what gets built, not only how: you've run or driven product discovery, cut scope, and can show the decisions that followed
Ownership & impact instinct - when needed you go beyond your team's boundaries to get to results
You set the bar for AI adoption on your team. You use it to real effect in your own work, you're honest about where it helped and where it fell short, and you're the first to try new tools, bringing the ones that stick to your engineers.
Nice to have
You are eager to scale your experience beyond