Line Manager

Role Overview

• Lead and support a group of software engineering professionals.
• Conduct regular 1:1s focused on performance, motivation, development, well-being, and feedback.
• Build trust-based relationships with employees and create a healthy leadership environment.
• Support onboarding, role clarity, engagement, retention, and individual motivation.
• Identify early signs of overload, disengagement, conflict, or performance risk.
• Act as a stable leadership anchor in a complex matrix setup.
• Define and communicate clear individual performance expectations.
• Evaluate performance based on evidence, stakeholder input, delivery contribution, behavior, and growth.
• Collect structured feedback from Product, Project/Delivery, Architecture, Scrum Masters, technical experts, and relevant stakeholders.
• Differentiate performance fairly and transparently.
• Recognize strong performance and address underperformance early.
• Support employees in understanding how their work contributes to product, delivery, quality, and business outcomes.
• Distinguish between individual performance issues and systemic delivery/process constraints.
• Own development conversations and Personal Development Plans.
• Identify strengths, growth areas, potential, and career aspirations.
• Support career progression, competence growth, mentoring, and learning opportunities.
• Connect individual development with business needs, technology direction, product priorities, and organizational capability gaps.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Project Managers, Architects, Scrum Masters, and other functional leaders.
• Maintain regular feedback loops with stakeholders to understand employee contribution, collaboration, and performance.

Requirements

• Experience leading people in a software development, engineering, product, delivery, or technology organization.
• Practical understanding of software delivery processes, Agile ways of working, engineering team setup, and delivery stakeholder roles.
• Experience managing individual performance in a matrix or cross-functional environment.
• Experience working with stakeholders such as Product Managers, Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Architects, Scrum Masters, QA, Engineers, or similar roles.
• Experience handling feedback, performance conversations, development planning, and employee engagement.
• Experience supporting teams or individuals through change, ambiguity, conflicting priorities, or organizational transformation.

Benefits

• 24 working days of annual vacation;
• medical insurance;
• paid sick leaves and child sick leaves;
• maternity and paternity leaves;
• breakfasts and lunches in the office;
• good working conditions in a comfortable office in UNIT.City;
• a parking lot with free spaces for employees;
• occasional business trips to Western Europe.