Engineering Manager (HotSchedules Labor)

N-iX is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead three SCRUM teams focused on their workforce management product, HotSchedules Labor. The role involves overseeing delivery, managing people, and ensuring engineering processes while utilizing AI coding agents in the teams' workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Lead three SCRUM teams end-to-end: sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and delivery commitments
• Own delivery outcomes and make sure teams consistently hit sprint goals and roadmap milestones
• Manage ~15-20 engineers across three teams: tech leads, senior full-stack developers, and QA automation engineers
• Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate risks early
• Work with product management to align engineering capacity with business priorities
• Maintain engineering standards: code reviews, CI/CD discipline, test coverage, and release quality
• Expand the use of AI coding agents across all three teams, track adoption and productivity metrics, and report results to leadership
• Coordinate cross-team technical initiatives such as platform upgrades, migrations, and tech-debt reduction
• Own hiring for your teams: define staffing needs, run interviews, and onboard new members
• Report delivery status, risks, and metrics to senior leadership and client stakeholders
• Build and maintain a strong team culture across distributed time zones

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams simultaneously, navigating cross-team dependencies and balancing competing priorities
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with a strong Java background
• Advanced English proficiency (daily meetings, stakeholder calls, and written communication)
• At least 6 months of hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) or direct experience managing teams that actively use them
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure)
• EU-timezone availability
• Track record of delivering software in Agile/SCRUM environments with distributed, international teams
• Solid understanding of the Java/Spring ecosystem, relational databases, and modern front-end frameworks (React)
• Experience managing QA functions, including test automation strategy and quality metrics
• Experience with capacity planning and delivery forecasting
• Domain experience in workforce management, scheduling, or labor optimization
• Familiarity with event-driven and message-queue architectures
• Experience managing teams through legacy-to-modern migration efforts
• Exposure to Playwright-based test automation frameworks
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD orchestration across multiple teams