Engineering Manager

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November 14

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Manila Recruitment

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Recruitment • Enterprise

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

🎯 Recruiter

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Recruit, hire, and onboard 5-6 engineers (2 QA, 3-4 Full-Stack) within your first 3 months • Conduct face-to-face interviews in Manila, partnering with our VPE and Head of Talent remotely • Hold regular 1-1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations • Foster technical excellence and continuous learning within your team • Spend 30-40% of your time coding alongside your team once the team is established • Conduct thorough code reviews ensuring adherence to the company’s standards • Provide PHP/Laravel expertise for mentoring and problem-solving • Make technical decisions for bug fixes and customer enhancements • Use monitoring tools (Sentry, Datadog) to proactively identify and resolve issues • Own the RUN workstream (80% bug fixes, 20% customer enhancements) • Partner with our Agile Delivery Manager to define your team's delivery process • Ensure P0/P1/P2 bugs are resolved within SLAs • Participate in daily standups with VPE and ADM • Maintain 9am-12pm UK time-availability for critical collaboration • Lead knowledge absorption from UK team during ramp-up period • Ensure your team documents learnings and creates runbooks • Use our monitoring and alerting using Sentry and Datadog • Partner with our Senior Customer Support Engineer on bug investigations

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record as a player-coach in similar sized teams • Strong hands-on PHP/Laravel expertise that's current and deep • Experience building and scaling offshore/remote teams • Background in maintaining systems whilst ensuring stability • Expert-level PHP/Laravel knowledge for code reviews and mentoring • Strong understanding of MySQL, Redis, and caching strategies • Experience with AWS services (RDS, EKS preferred) • Proficiency with monitoring tools (Sentry, Datadog) • Understanding of CI/CD practices and deployment pipelines • Demonstrated ability to recruit and build teams from scratch • Experience managing mid to senior-level engineers • Excellent English communication (written and verbal) • Strong async communication skills for distributed team collaboration • Cultural sensitivity and ability to bridge working styles • Ability to balance hands-on coding with management responsibilities • Experience in B2B SaaS or cybersecurity domains (advantageous) • Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SCIM, SAML, OAuth) (advantageous) • Understanding of GDPR and data protection requirements (advantageous) • Knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) (advantageous) • Understanding of frontend technologies and frameworks (advantageous)