Engineering Manager

**About Us:**

A global SaaS leader for seamless digital document workflows, Nitro offers a suite of solutions for PDF, eSigning, identity verification and analytics supported by a best-in-class customer success and change management team. With more than 3 million licensed users and 13,000+ business customers across 157 countries, we serve 67% of the Fortune 500.

**The Role:**

We are seeking an experienced, driven, and customer-focused **Engineering Manager** to lead our team of skilled engineers in the development and delivery of our Windows desktop applications and core PDF technologies.

The ideal candidate will have a relentless focus on delivering an exceptional user experience, have a strong technical background, proven leadership abilities, and experience in managing teams operating under Agile and Scrum frameworks. You will play a pivotal role in driving team performance, ensuring high-quality software delivery, and fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Lead, mentor, and inspire teams of C++ and C# application engineers, taking accountability for delivery across your teams.

• Actively foster a high bar for engineering excellence with a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability.

• Encourage and enable a customer-centric mindset within the team, working closely with our product and partner teams to develop solutions that exceed our customer expectations.

• Support professional growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance reviews.

• Partner with senior engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices.

• Lead communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focused space for engineers to do their best work.

• Collaborate with the wider engineering organisation to contribute to and improve company-wide best managerial and technical practices and standards.

• Champion and implement modern AI-assisted development practices and agentic workflows to maximize team efficiency and transparency, using metrics to identify process improvements and make data driven decisions.

• Align engineering efforts with business goals, product vision, and technical strategy.

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.

**Required Skills and Qualifications**

• 3-5+ years as an Engineering Manager in a software development environment with direct experience leading cross functional teams.

• Strong understanding of application development and release management.

• Experience with Windows or Desktop development is a plus.

• Track record of shipping user focused applications and products.

• Hands-on experience with modern development practices such as Agentic Workflows, CI/CD, unit testing, and version control (Git).

• Proven experience leading teams using Agile and/or Scrum methodologies.

• Ability to quickly build trust, motivate, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.

• Strong communication, organizational, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to work with a diverse set of teams and individuals with various working styles to drive clarity, make decisions and simply get things done.

• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, QA, and CX teams.

**How We Work:**

We aim to create an environment where talented individuals are empowered to excel. How we collaborate, innovate, and engage with one another is important to us. Our work is driven by 5 key principles:

• **One team, One mission**

Our collective dedication to Nitro's mission defines us. Together, we are building an environment where everyone feels like a valued part of something bigger than themselves.

• **Own it**

We take full ownership of our actions and decisions. We empower one another to lead with confidence, creativity, and a solutions-focused mindset.

• **Accountable to our customers**

We are dedicated to our customers and take our commitments seriously. We do what we say we are going to do.