Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

About the role

Secfix is looking for an Engineering Lead who is a strong individual contributor first, manager second. You'll work directly with the CTO, take over engineering management responsibilities, and stay close to the codebase long-term. In the first month you'll ship features, in the second you'll own hiring, and in the third you'll start leading the team of five engineers.

What you'll do

• Month 1: Get into the codebase, ship a meaningful feature, and deliver high-quality work fast enough to credibly help others improve (70–80% coding)
• Month 2: Take over engineering interviews, design technical challenges, run screens, and make hiring more consistent and repeatable
• Month 3: Design a pragmatic performance evaluation approach, run regular 1:1s focused on output x impact, quality, and AI efficiency
• Own system design on major projects — write the technical spec, present architecture, get alignment, and drive to production
• Scale the product for mid-market: more granular RBAC, sub-workspace collaboration, and new control layers
• Help define backend architecture for agentic compliance workflows, intelligent evidence collection, and context-aware policy generation
• Bring AI-assisted engineering practices to the whole team through natural day-to-day collaboration

What you'll need

• Strong individual contributor background — you can build at a high level and have credible technical judgment
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers, with a people-first instinct (reaching for individuals over processes)
• Ability to own system design end-to-end: spec, architecture, alignment, and production delivery
• Genuine curiosity about AI tooling and how it changes the way teams build software
• Comfortable working in a small team without rigid process frameworks
• Available in CET/CEST timezone

What they offer

• Remote-first role (EMEA), Munich/Germany preferred
• Direct collaboration with the Co-Founder and CTO
• Significant impact on engineering culture and product direction
• Company on a profitable trajectory with €17M raised (€12M Series A)
• Fast-growing team with plans to double engineering headcount in 12 months