Engineering Manager | Domains

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Our formula for success: Customer obsession, innovative products, and talented teams.
Your role at Hostinger
We are seeking a skilled Engineering Manager with a passion for creating robust and scalable systems. In this role, you will directly shape the technical landscape of our domain registration and management systems, leading a team of exceptional developers. Your focus will be on ensuring the scalability, performance, and maintainability of one of the industry's largest domain registrars, managing over 8 million domains.
Curious to learn more? Connect with your team:Klaudijus Januitis, Head of Domains

Your day-to-day

• Architecture Design: Define and oversee the architecture of systems supporting domain registrations and management.
• Code Review: Conduct regular code reviews to maintain code quality and standards.
• Technology Stack: Stay updated on PHP and backend technologies, guiding the team in adopting relevant tools.
• Team Management: Provide mentorship, allocate tasks, conduct performance evaluations, and lead the hiring process.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other leads and team managers to ensure effective communication.
• Project Management: Participate in planning, estimation, and timeline management.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for process optimization within backend development.
• Problem Resolution: Lead the team in resolving technical challenges and act as a point of escalation.

Your skills and experience

• Experience: At least 5-10 years of hands-on developer experience and 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Technical Expertise: Strong backend-focused engineering background with expertise in PHP, Laravel, Go, GCP, MySQL, Redis and Kubernetes.
• Leadership: Strong leadership skills with a focus on fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication skills, a proactive attitude, and a focus on results.
• Production Operations: Good background in incident management, on-call practices, and applying observability tooling.
• Project Management: Great project management skills for implementing complex multi-vendor backend/API integrations.
• Curious Mind: A continuous learner who stays updated with the latest industry trends.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Domain Knowledge: Good understanding of how domains technically operate.
• CloudOps Experience: Previous hands-on work or leadership experience running cloud operations.

Benefits for you

• 🚀 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

• Gross salary starting from 6600 EUR/month (depends on your skills and experience).