Founding Engineering Manager — Europe at Cross Border Talents

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Founding Engineering Manager (Player-Coach) — Europe

Remote — United Kingdom & Europe | Full-time | Senior
$140,000 – $170,000 + meaningful equity

Our client is an early-stage, remote-first company building a next-generation platform that helps organizations ship trusted software faster. Operating at the intersection of cloud-native infrastructure, DevSecOps, and AI-driven automation, the team is tackling complex software delivery challenges for high-stakes environments.

As part of their next growth phase, they are hiring a Founding Engineering Manager to lead and scale a distributed engineering organization while remaining deeply technical.

This is a true player-coach role — ideal for leaders who still enjoy getting hands-on to unblock teams and drive delivery.

You will own the health, velocity, and evolution of a remote engineering team spanning backend, frontend, and forward-deployed engineers. Working closely with the CTO, you will translate strategy into execution while building a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture.

• Lead and scale a high-performing remote engineering team
• Act as a hands-on technical leader when needed to unblock delivery
• Drive predictable, high-quality software delivery in an async-first environment
• Partner with the CTO on roadmap planning and resource forecasting
• Own hiring strategy and close exceptional engineering talent
• Align Core, Frontend, and Forward-Deployed teams into one cohesive system
• Champion adoption of AI and automation to increase engineering throughput
• Protect team focus by translating external priorities into clear execution plans

• Senior engineering background with recent hands-on technical depth
• 5+ years of engineering management experience in startup or high-growth environments
• Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, and API-first systems
• Solid experience with Go (preferred) or adjacent backend languages
• Proven track record hiring and scaling remote engineering teams
• Experience shipping production features end-to-end
• Strong async communication and remote leadership discipline
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

• Background in DevSecOps, developer tooling, or software supply chain security
• Experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure
• Open source contributions in cloud-native or security ecosystems
• Experience at companies such as GitLab, Snyk, Grafana Labs, Elastic, Docker, or similar
• Demonstrated success in early-stage or pre-Series A environments

• Remote-first role
• Candidates must be based in the UK or Europe for time-zone alignment
• Candidates must have valid work authorization in their country of residence
• Async-first collaboration with occasional schedule flexibility required

• Foundational leadership impact at an early-stage company
• Work at the intersection of cloud-native, DevSecOps, and AI
• Remote-first, high-trust engineering culture
• Meaningful equity with early-stage upside
• High ownership and direct influence on technical direction

If you are a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in early-stage environments and knows how to scale high-performing remote teams while staying technically credible, this opportunity will strongly align with your trajectory.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply with their CV or GitHub profile.

Job Info:

• Company: Cross Border Talents
• Position: Founding Engineering Manager — Europe
• Work Location: County Dublin
• Country: IE

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