Zendesk

Zendesk

Zendesk provides a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance customer service and engagement through an AI-powered platform that facilitates communication across various channels, including text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, and social me...

Professional Services
5K-10K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Lead a team of 5 to 10 engineers and drive the team’s day-to-day operations and ceremonies.
  • Unblock engineers quickly and keep the team focused on clear, valuable, and achievable delivery.
  • Own team members’ professional well-being, career development, performance management, feedback, and mentoring.
  • Support production releases by monitoring deployments and upholding standards for the production branch.
  • Review pull requests and provide clear, constructive feedback that improves technical quality.
  • Lead technical design discussions and help align architecture and implementation decisions.
  • Own the team’s technical roadmap, assess technical debt, and keep systems healthy and scalable.
  • Partner with the Technical Product Owner and UI/UX Designer to plan sprints and structure delivery.
  • Align engineering work with broader business objectives and communicate priorities and escalations clearly to leadership.
  • Balance sprint commitments with customer support needs while maintaining healthy execution.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience leading an engineering team of typically 5+ engineers in a delivery-focused environment.
  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Strong hands-on technical background with the ability to review code and guide design decisions.
  • Experience owning delivery and execution, including sprint planning, backlog management, and release readiness.
  • AI-driven mindset, defaulting to AI while maintaining quality and consistency.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers through regular feedback and performance management.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business context into technical direction.
  • Experience working in a SaaS, cloud-native, or distributed systems environment.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Node.js or Golang for backend services, APIs, or real-time systems.
  • Strong hands-on experience with React for complex state management and performance optimization.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL, including data modeling and time series work.
  • Deep understanding of modern web architecture, SPA frameworks, client-server communication, and browser performance.
  • Solid experience designing and operating systems in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or similar.
  • Understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency, availability, observability, and fault tolerance.
  • Strong knowledge of system reliability, performance tuning, and production incident management.
  • Bonus: experience in cloud-native applications.
  • Bonus: hands-on experience with more than one cloud provider.
  • Bonus: background in scaling teams, processes, or technical systems as the organization grows.

Benefits

  • Remote-first role with no offices and location flexibility in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Estonia, or Israel.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • Flexible working options.
  • Health insurance.
  • Parental leave.
  • Employee stock option plan.
  • Home office allowance.
  • Professional development stipend.
  • Peer recognition program.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Head of Malware Research & Engineering (remote-only, Europe)

CloudLinux 51-250 IT Services

CloudLinux is seeking an Engineering Leader to head the Cloud Antivirus Department at Imunify360, owning the end-to-end malware detection and cloud scanning platform that protects millions of websites.

Apache Airflow AWS Celery ClickHouse Docker GCP GitLab CI Grafana Jenkins Kafka Kubernetes LLM Luigi Machine Learning Microservices MongoDB PHP PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ Redash Redis Rust SQL Transformers
4 hours, 11 minutes ago

Engineering Manager - AI & GenAI

Netguru 251-1K Internet Software & Services

Netguru is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its AI and GenAI engineering capability, guiding production LLM systems, supporting client delivery and presales, and building internal AI practices across the company.

AWS Azure CI/CD GCP Generative AI LLM Node.js OpenTelemetry Python TypeScript
4 hours, 26 minutes ago

Manager, Software Engineering (.NET & Salesforce)

AssistRx 251-1K Pharmaceuticals

AssistRx is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead cross-functional teams building and scaling enterprise applications across .NET and Salesforce for healthcare technology solutions that improve patient access to specialty therapies.

Agile Azure C# CI/CD Salesforce Salesforce Apex Salesforce Lightning Scrum
4 hours, 26 minutes ago

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platform

SmarterDx 11-50 Professional Services

SmarterDx is hiring a fully remote Engineering Manager to lead its AWS and Kubernetes platform team, shaping the development infrastructure that supports its clinical AI product for hospitals.

Agile Apache Airflow AWS dbt Go Kanban Kubernetes Machine Learning Microservices PostgreSQL Python Snowflake Terraform TypeScript
4 hours, 26 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers