Software Engineering Manager

Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋🏼

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster. We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn't. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead two of our .NET/C# engineering teams, each responsible for one of Storyteq's products. You'll be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of both teams, working closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Platform Engineers to keep our platforms reliable, scalable, and moving forward on their product and engineering roadmaps.

This is a role for someone who can operate credibly on both sides of the job: strong enough technically to understand, challenge, and contribute to architecture and design decisions across our C#/.NET stack, and experienced enough as a people manager to build, coach, and retain high-performing engineering teams. Because your teams include colleagues working offshore and across multiple locations, experience leading distributed teams and building the habits, communication rhythms, and trust that make distributed teams work well is essential.

Our management roles mirror the three pillars of the Storyteq engineering progression framework: Team & Execution, People, and Leadership. You'll use this same framework day to day to coach, level, and grow the engineers in your teams.

•      Be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of both of your teams, ensuring we deliver on our commitments across both products.

•      Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product architecture and C#/.NET technologies underpinning both teams and help your teams develop it further through coaching and architectural guidance.

•      Ensure continuous improvement of engineering workflows, processes, and ways of working - including practices that keep offshore and distributed team members closely aligned with the rest of the team.

•      Create focus for your engineers: actively remove blockers, absorb interruptions, and protect the team's ability to do deep work.

•      Encourage active collaboration between engineers, designers, and the product team, regardless of time zone or location.

•      Build, develop, and retain high-performing teams - owning recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and helping the people in your teams excel, including colleagues in offshore or distributed locations.

•      Actively develop the engineers in your teams using the Storyteq IC progression framework: set clear expectations, hold regular career conversations, and create honest, evidence-based progression and development plans.

•      Give timely, candid feedback and manage performance with empathy and fairness.

•      Grow the teams sustainably, hiring for both capability and culture, and creating new opportunities for people to learn.

•      Promote and build upon our great engineering culture that your team members thrive in.

•      Lead and guide the teams in your domain, setting direction and connecting their work to Storyteq's mission and goals.

•      Contribute to the Engineering management team: share practices, align cross-team initiatives, and help shape how engineering operates at Storyteq.

•      Represent your teams and their work to stakeholders inside and outside engineering.

•      Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or similar, managing one or more software engineering teams.

•      A strong technical background in C# and the .NET ecosystem (.NET Framework and .NET 6+), including ASP.NET MVC/Web API and Entity Framework - enough to genuinely engage in architecture and design discussions and earn the credibility of your teams.

•      Broad knowledge of creational, structural, behavioural and architectural design patterns, and experience working with distributed systems and different architectural styles (microservices, modular monoliths, event-driven architecture).

•      Experience managing offshore and/or distributed engineering teams, with the communication habits and processes that keep those teams well-integrated and productive.

•      A track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, with experience running structured career development and performance conversations.

•      Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable representing your teams' work to Product, Design, and the wider business.

•      Experience with agile development methodologies, and able to provide accurate estimations and planning for multiple teams in parallel.

•      Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•      Pro-active, result-driven, and excited to build engineering teams and culture in a fast-growing tech scale-up.

•      Experience with SQL Server or Postgres.

•      Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS, and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.

•      Familiarity with SSO/OIDC integration (e.g. Keycloak).

•      Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

•      Prior experience managing teams across multiple products or domains simultaneously.

•      Experience operating within a formal engineering competency/progression framework.

•      Be entrepreneurial

•      See and seize opportunities

•      Take ownership

•      Focus on impact

•      Be Ambitious