Engineering Manager, Product Engineering
Job description
Engineering lead role at Secfix combining hands-on individual contribution with people management, hiring and technical leadership. The person starts as a strong IC shipping features, then takes over hiring and team leadership.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- Get into the codebase, ship a meaningful feature, and build at the level the team needs (70–80% of time writing code in month 1)
- Take over engineering interviews and build a better technical interview process: design technical challenges, run screens, make hiring more consistent and repeatable
- Help design a pragmatic way to evaluate team performance — simple, measurable, not bureaucratic
- Do regular 1:1s with each team member focused on output x impact, quality, and AI efficiency
- Identify who's behind and help them improve; remove obstacles from top performers
- Own system design on the biggest projects: write the technical spec, present the architecture, get alignment, and drive it to production
- Scale the product for mid-market: more granular RBAC, sub-workspace collaboration, and new control layers
- Help define the backend architecture for agentic compliance workflows, intelligent evidence collection, and context-aware policy generation
- Bring AI-assisted engineering to the whole team through day-to-day collaboration
- Stay in the code enough to have credible technical judgment as coding drops to 10–20% over time
What we're looking for
- Exceptional IC track record: already a principal-level engineer before starting to manage, promoted to that level and stayed there growing before choosing to lead
- Can hold deep technical conversations across backend, infrastructure, and — when needed — frontend
- Knows how to handle ambiguity at the start of a project and messy reality at the end
- Writes a clear technical design before starting development and holds that design loosely, adapting to good feedback
- Knows what great engineers look like: what makes them productive, what holds them back, and how to move them forward
- Holds people to a high standard; comfortable giving direct feedback and having hard conversations about performance
- Hands-on with AI-assisted development: has used Cursor and Claude Code in real production work
- Has worked in startups, where there's no playbook, no process, and the answer is "figure it out and ship it"
- Optimistic that a small, high-performing team can stay small and high-performing as it grows with little process
- Communicates proactively in writing; comfortable jumping into a pair programming session
- People-first mindset: reaches for individuals and their capabilities rather than systems and documentation when something breaks
Your team
Engineering
8 engineers and 2 product designers; planning to grow from 5 engineers to 9 in the next months and double the team in the next 12 months
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About Secfix
We automated security compliance for SMBs
Secfix automates security compliance for SMBs. Its platform integrates with a company's full tech stack — AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, GCP, and more — automatically extracts compliance evidence, and guides teams to certification in weeks instead of months.
Mission
Help over 1.78 million SMBs in Europe comply with security frameworks — ISO 27001, GDPR, TISAX, SOC 2 — in weeks instead of months
Key facts
- Security compliance automation
- Raised €17M in total (€12M Series A)
- Backed by Alstin Capital, Neosfer (Commerzbank), and Bayern Capital
- On a profitable trajectory, growing fast
- Fastest customer certified in 4 weeks instead of the industry-standard 12+ months
- New AI product (CISO AI) is just getting started
- Engineering team is 8 engineers and 2 product designers
- Engineers are in fewer than 2 hours of meetings per week
Partners & customers
What they value
- Focus is sacred
- Small, temporary teams
- AI is already part of the craft
- Zero-bugs
- We build what customers need, not what they ask for
- Quality as identity
- People-first