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# Engineering Manager

OllyGarden helps engineering teams get reliable OpenTelemetry® data. Our small, senior engineering team builds the platform in Go on Kubernetes, with NATS and ClickHouse, and ships much of its work through AI agents. This role leads day-to-day delivery: turning priorities into commitments, following up, and growing the engineers, while staying hands-on in code review and architecture. You will report to our CEO, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, who keeps product direction. This is a player-coach role, not a VP of Engineering role building a large organization.

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## What you’ll own

- Turn the CEO’s priorities into a weekly or biweekly plan with explicit commitments and owners
- Follow up daily: unblock engineers, surface risks early, and rebalance work between customer pilots and the roadmap
- Hold regular 1:1s and own feedback and career growth for the engineers on the team
- Own triage, so every urgent issue has an owner, stale work gets closed, and incidents have clear ownership
- Set lightweight engineering norms for code review, design docs on significant decisions, and release discipline
- Drive technical decisions to closure with the engineers who own each area
- Stay hands-on: review code and architecture, and ship code part of the time

## Outcomes that matter

- The team commits to a clear plan each cycle and delivers it, and customer delivery dates hold
- Urgent issues always have an owner, and in-progress work reflects what is really happening
- Engineers get regular 1:1s, honest feedback, and a visible path to grow
- Technical decisions get made and recorded instead of staying open, and the CEO gets a short written status every week
- Named milestones, such as starting the next product line, land on schedule

## What we’re looking for

- Experience leading delivery for a remote engineering team of roughly 5 to 15 people
- Technical credibility with Go, Kubernetes, streaming systems such as NATS or Kafka, and analytical databases such as ClickHouse, enough to tell when an estimate is unrealistic
- A record of managing senior, autonomous engineers through outcomes rather than process overhead
- Experience with, or strong interest in, AI-assisted engineering: leading teams that ship through agents and setting the quality bar on top of them
- Clear, async-first written communication with a team spread across the Americas and Europe
- Based in Europe or Latin America, with good overlap with Central European working hours
- Comfort reporting to a technical founder who keeps product and architecture direction

## Bonus points

- Observability or OpenTelemetry experience
- Experience as a tech lead before moving into management
- Startup or early-stage company experience
- Portuguese language skills

Interview process

## Show us how you lead

The process is practical. We want to see how you plan, follow through, give feedback, and judge technical work, not how well you describe a process.

- 01A conversation about the teams you have led, how you run delivery, and why OllyGarden interests you

- 02A planning exercise: turn a realistic set of priorities, customer commitments, and open issues into a plan with owners, then walk us through how you would follow up

- 03A technical session with engineers from the team: walk through a system you helped build, then review a real pull request or design document together, including agent-written code

- 04Reference conversations focused on delivery, how engineers grew under your leadership, and how you handle difficult feedback

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