Principal Engineering Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Engineering Manager based in Switzerland.

Lead a critical engineering area within a fast-growing global technology organization and help raise the bar for product <development.You>’ll combine deep engineering judgment with people leadership, strategic thinking, and a strong sense of ownership.Working closely with Product and Design, you’ll shape solutions early, bring clarity to complex challenges, and guide teams toward sustainable <execution.You>’ll remain connected to the technical work while empowering engineers to make strong decisions and deliver with confidence.The role offers broad influence over engineering standards, architecture, delivery practices, and long-term product <outcomes.You>’ll operate in a globally distributed, inclusive environment that values collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and practical execution.This is an opportunity to shape both the technology and the teams behind products serving a global customer base.

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop an engineering team by providing clear direction, context, coaching, feedback, and support for individual and collective growth.
• Partner closely with Product and Design from the earliest stages of discovery to shape effective solutions and align technical possibilities with customer and business needs.
• Own delivery from problem definition through execution, ensuring priorities, responsibilities, dependencies, and expected outcomes remain clear.
• Establish predictable and sustainable execution through thoughtful planning, realistic expectations, transparent progress tracking, and proactive risk management.
• Provide technical leadership across complex products and systems, making informed architectural and engineering decisions while remaining close to the work.
• Maintain high standards for engineering quality, scalability, reliability, maintainability, testing, and continuous delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering practices, processes, collaboration, and delivery across the wider organization.
• Help engineers work effectively with modern development technologies, including AI-assisted tools and LLM-based coding assistants.
• Contribute strategic engineering experience and leadership to broader organizational initiatives and help create a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading engineering teams within a product-focused technology organization.
• Proven track record of delivering complex products, platforms, or systems in fast-moving environments.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to participate confidently in both engineering and product discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, establish clarity, and turn complex problems into actionable plans.
• Strong experience partnering with Product and Design to shape solutions, priorities, and product direction.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to provide clear context, align diverse stakeholders, and communicate effectively at all levels.
• Strong ownership mindset combined with a practical, execution-oriented approach to leadership.
• Experience working with modern cloud-native technologies and engineering practices is highly valuable.
• Familiarity with technologies such as PHP/Symfony, Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm is advantageous.
• Understanding of distributed architectures, scalable data processing, observability, automated testing, CI/CD, continuous delivery, and A/B testing is a plus.
• Experience using LLMs and AI-assisted development tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and software quality is beneficial.
• Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed environment and collaborating asynchronously across functions and locations.

Benefits

• Fully remote position available within the EMEA region.
• Flexible working hours designed to support autonomy and work-life balance.
• Private health insurance.
• Two additional paid days off dedicated to mental or physical wellbeing.
• One additional paid day off to celebrate a birthday or another personal occasion.
• Internal and external learning and development opportunities.
• Access to mentorship, internal meetups, and hackathons, both online and in person.
• Supportive, inclusive, and globally distributed team environment.
• Opportunities to contribute to high-impact engineering initiatives across a growing technology organization.
• Team-building events and social activities.
• Additional office-based perks may include complimentary healthy lunches and employee merchandise discounts.
• Career development opportunities and exposure to broad engineering leadership responsibilities.