n8n - Engineering Manager | Remote | Europe
Requirements
• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization. You’ve led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health. • 🎯 Relevant domain experience: You've led engineering teams working in one of the following areas • 💳 Billing & licensing: subscription, billing, payments, metering, or licensing/entitlement systems • 🔍 Governance & observability: audit logging, monitoring/observability tooling, admin/access controls, or compliance-related features • 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability. • 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast. • ⚙️ Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs. • 🛠️ Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path. • 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward. • 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team. • 🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack. • 🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest: You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation. • 🤖 AI product exposure: You’ve worked near AI-native products, AI features, or teams exploring how AI is changing product experiences and engineering execution.
Responsibilities
• BUILD AN EMPOWERED, HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM • Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development. • Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together. • Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n. • CREATE CLARITY AND CONFIDENCE AS THE LANDSCAPE EVOLVES • Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built. • Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence. • Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process. • DRIVE EXECUTION WITH SPEED, JUDGMENT, AND ALIGNMENT • Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like. • Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t. • Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability. • LEAD WITH TECHNICAL CREDIBILITY • Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality. • Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed. • Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.
Benefits
• At n8n, you’ll join at a moment where strong engineering leadership can have outsized impact. We’re building in a space that is moving quickly, and we see that as an opportunity: to help teams stay ambitious, grounded, and effective while shaping what great engineering leadership looks like in an AI-native company. You’ll play a key role in building teams that empower others, act with integrity, move with speed and efficiency, and think bigger than incremental improvement. In a remote-first company growing fast, your work will directly influence how we scale our engineering organization and build the future of automation. • Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity. • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Health & wellness 🩺 – • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage. • Future planning 💰 – • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. • Financial security 🛡️ – • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. • AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. • Country-specific details are provided in your contract.
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT