Engineering Director

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108K-108K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
The Engineering Director leads Shared Services and Platform engineering teams, including Websites, Billing, Payments, Platform, and Internal Tools. Responsibilities include hiring and developing Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, improving underperforming teams, promoting production ownership and observability, partnering with product and engineering stakeholders, clarifying priorities, advancing AI-assisted engineering adoption, and measuring platform impact. The role requires hands-on software engineering experience, broad technical adaptability, strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
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Join the team building an AI-first company.

Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.

AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.

If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.

Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles

 
Your role at Hostinger

As Engineering Director, you'll report directly to our VP of Engineering and work closely with our Head of Delivery, owning an important “Shared Services / Platform” area of our product department. You will be expected to raise the bar for how teams are run, and take direct ownership of teams and problems as they're handed to you. The “Shared Services / Platform” area consists of PHP (Laravel/Symfony) and Vue.js-heavy teams such as: Websites, Billing, Payments, Platform, and Internal Tools.

The teams ensure we deliver shared capabilities once, enable and unblock our colleagues and commercial product teams to move faster.

 
Your day-to-day

• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, helping them raise their own ambitions rather than settle for "business as usual"

• Take direct ownership of underperforming teams or unresolved problems - roll up your sleeves and fix them yourself when needed.

• Champion a "you build it, you own it" culture: full accountability from writing code through production - observability, incident response, postmortems, and learning from failure.

• Partner with stakeholders across the business - product, other engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners - to make sure the right problems get addressed, not just the loudest ones.

• Bring clarity and structure to a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment, without slowing it down.

• Champion AI-assisted engineering across your teams, and help close any gaps in AI adoption.

• Help define how outcome and impact - not just output - gets measured and communicated for platform and internal-facing teams, where the connection to revenue isn't always obvious.

 
Your expertise and experience

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.

• A track record of building and owning products and services in production over the long run.

• Real comfort with, or strong openness to, PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Python, Node.JS, GO, and/or Vue.js - true generalists who can pick up any stack, with the help of AI tools, tend to thrive here.

• Genuine, active enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering; you're expected to pull your teams forward on adoption, not catch up to them.

• Comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving processes, and fast-changing priorities.

• A resilient, self-directed way of working - this is a senior, largely independent role without a large peer group at the same level.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to give and take direct feedback.

• Experience scaling up from a smaller company or startup is a plus, as is a background in digital, consumer-facing (B2C) product companies.

• Excellent communication skills in English.

 
Benefits you'll love

🚀 360 Growth: We provide limitless learning opportunities: access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, feedback culture, and mentoring through TesoXchange. Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success.

🎯 Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms: from modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, the comfort of home, or anywhere in the world. Enjoy flexibility in managing your schedule and bring your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

💪Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, Headspace subscriptions, and regular health checks. Join our wellbeing-dedicated events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs, or simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness.

🎉 Work hard – play hard: Celebrate your achievements with company events like Summerfest & Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations. Enjoy access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and celebrate life's big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations.

 
Compensation

Competitive salary starting from €9,000 gross/month, depending on your experience and skills.

We're always looking for experienced talent to raise the bar. If you're excited about the role but the listed salary range doesn't align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply - we're open to adjusting compensation based on the impact and value you bring.

Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey 🚀

Three. Two. Onboard

 

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • Experience building and owning products and services in production over the long term
  • Comfort with or strong openness to PHP, Laravel, Symfony, Python, Node.js, Go, and/or Vue.js
  • Active enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering
  • Ability to operate with ambiguity, evolving processes, and changing priorities
  • Resilient, self-directed approach to working independently
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to give and receive direct feedback
  • Excellent English communication skills
  • Experience scaling from a smaller company or startup
  • Background in digital or consumer-facing B2C product companies
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The Company
HQ: Vilnius
1,026 Employees

What We Do

Since 2004, Hostinger has been a web host on a mission to break down all barriers to achieving success online. Everyone can unlock the power of the internet, and we are committed to making this happen. With nearly 900 employees worldwide, we’ve established a growth-focused workplace culture that brings out the best in everyone. Are you someone who takes ownership of projects? Do you have a thirst for knowledge and an eye for detail? Is being proactive and assertive something that comes naturally to you? We’d love to hear from you

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