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Associate Engineering Manager / Team Lead (Remote)

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We’re looking for someone ready to step into Engineering Management — a people-focused leader with strong engineering understanding, delivery ownership, and the ability to support engineering teams in an AI-enabled environment

What you’ll do

  • Lead and support an engineering team in delivering high-quality outcomes.
  • Coach, mentor, and help engineers grow.
  • Improve team ways of working, ownership, and collaboration.
  • Work closely with Product/POs and stakeholders on priorities and delivery.
  • Identify delivery, team, or process risks and drive resolution.
  • Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and team development.
  • Guide the team on effective and responsible AI usage.
  • Promote good practices around quality, observability, incidents, and automation.

What we’re looking for

  • Strong experience as a Senior/Lead Engineer, Team Lead, or similar role.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring, guiding, or coordinating engineers.
  • Good understanding of software development and modern engineering practices.
  • Experience working in fast-paced Agile/Scrum environments.
  • Strong ownership, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
  • Good communication and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Understanding of AI-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Self-driven, pragmatic, and people-focused.

Behavioral Attributes

  • Ownership mindset, extended to the team You own your team's systems, but lead through others.
  • Accountability: You own mistakes honestly and drive the retro.
  • Proactive communication: You escalate early and build the same habit in your team.
  • Continuous improvement: You turn incidents into better systems and better engineers.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to performance management or people-development discussions.
  • Experience working with distributed/remote teams.
  • Experience improving engineering quality, automation, observability, or incident handling.

Who this role is ideal for

Senior/Lead Engineers or Team Leads who are already taking leadership responsibility and are ready to move formally into people management.

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DigitalTolkAssociate Engineering Manager / Team Lead (Remote)
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