Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Croatia
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering

Work Model

• Remote or Hybrid: This can be a remote or hybrid role depending on your location and proximity to one of our local offices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a High-Impact Team: Manage a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and data disciplines, ensuring delivery, performance, and alignment with Cognism’s engineering standards.
• Mentor & Develop Talent: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and support career development for each team member.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Participate in architectural discussions and code reviews, providing strategic and technical guidance across projects.
• Shape the Roadmap: Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to define and deliver on the team’s roadmap and goals.
• Own Execution: Oversee delivery of services and features owned by the team, ensuring quality and timeliness.
• Promote Best Practices: Champion engineering principles and processes that enhance collaboration, scalability, and system resilience.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with teams across data engineering, research, infrastructure, and beyond to align on key initiatives.
• Drive Knowledge Sharing: Establish and maintain strong documentation practices and onboarding processes.

Expectations

• Leadership Experience: 2+ years of people or technical leadership, with 5+ years in software engineering.
• Technical Depth: Proven experience with distributed systems and microservice-based architectures.
• Code Fluency: Ability to read and review production code, and guide engineers on architectural decisions.
• Cloud-Native Mindset: Familiar with serverless data processing tools (e.g., AWS Glue, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3), with a preference for AWS experience.
• Strong Communication: Skilled at influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Track Record of Delivery: Demonstrated success in managing and delivering complex software projects.
• Collaborative Leadership: Builds trust, promotes alignment, and fosters an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

Tech Stack

• Languages: Scala (especially with Play Framework and Pekko)
• Cloud Services: AWS (Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3)
• Data Tools: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Athena, MongoDB, SQL, Apache Iceberg
• Frontend: Angular (limited involvement, but understanding is helpful)
• Collaboration Tools: Jira (capacity planning), Asana (roadmap alignment), Confluence (documentation), Figma (feature planning)

Why Cognism

At Cognism, we’re not just building a company - we’re building an inclusive community of brilliant, diverse people who support, challenge, and inspire each other every day.

Our values guide how we work, treat each other, and grow together:

• We Are Nice: We treat each other with respect and kindness.
• We Are Collaborative: Great things happen when we work as one.
• We Are Solution-Focused: Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise.
• We Are Understanding: We empower and support each other to do our best work.
• We Celebrate Individual Contributors: Every role matters, and so do you!

Cognism is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals typically underrepresented in tech, so if this role excites you but you’re unsure if you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!