ENGINEERING MANAGER (GYT)

Hungary - Budapest

Tech People is a European provider of technical skills permanent recruitment and temporary contracting services for multiple industries.

Currently we are looking for

ENGINEERING MANAGER (GYT)

Location: Netherlands, Germany or Hungary (hybrid - 2 days in office 6 week)

Salary: competitive

Type of employment: employee

Tasks:

Provide technical direction
Set technical direction and standards for your teams' domain, alongside your engineers.
Make and steward the key technical decisions; uphold quality, security, and operational stability.
Contribute to system and architecture decisions for your domain with the Enterprise Architects and your peers.
Grow the people
Coach and develop your engineers — including growing strong ones into senior and staff engineers.
Hire, and act on tough talent calls with clarity and care.
Own the delivery and the bar
Own your teams' roadmap commitments and delivery and operational outcomes; protect cycle time, quality, and operational stability.
Keep review sustainable in an agentic SDLC — ensure your teams do not create excessive review burden or unnecessary code, match agent autonomy to the risk of the task, and keep human accountability clear.
Raise the engineering bar for your domain; make standards explicit and inspectable.
Operate agents yourself — build the subagents, evals, and patterns your team reuses, and contribute them back to the shared libraries.
Technical environment:
- Claude Code, subagents, MCP integrations and multi-agent workflows
- Legacy: Java, MS SQL and heritage architecture being decomposed
- Modern: Python, TypeScript, Vue, Postgres, Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform
- Cloud-native, service-oriented architecture
- Success in your first year
- Teams reliably deliver roadmap commitments with improved speed, quality, and stability
- Clear and stronger technical standards across your domain
- Engineers grow into senior and staff roles
- AI-native ways of working become standard across the team

Requirements:

Engineering manager with a track record of growing engineers — including into senior and staff roles — and owning team delivery.
A strong technical foundation in a relevant domain (front-end, middleware, back-end, data, or platform) — you set team-level technical direction, not just run process.
Current, personal practice of AI-native software delivery (Claude Code or equivalent) — you can show your work and lead by example.
Strong on talent development; comfortable acting on tough calls.
Comfortable in ambiguity and inside legacy codebases; a strong communicator.
Fluent English

Nice to have: