Engineering Manager, Core Platform | Remote | Europe
n8n
MidAbout the position
Lead and develop a high-performing Core Platform team at a fast-growing SaaS company, focusing on backend and frontend platform evolution.
Tech stack
- leadership
- software-engineering
- typescript
- node
Requirements
Required:
- You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have directly led engineers in a growing product or platform organization
- You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability
- You think deeply about correctness, reliability, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability in foundational engineering systems
- You have strong engineering experience and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs
Nice to have:
- You’ve worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack
- You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS products
- You’ve contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts, backward compatibility, and community expectations
Responsibilities
- Build and lead one of two Core Platform teams that power n8n’s workflow engine and frontend platform
- Guide the team’s work across backend platform foundations such as durable workflow execution, orchestration, queue/task distribution, state handling, and data architecture
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to align platform priorities with product and business outcomes
- Mentor engineers, challenge technical decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality across foundational systems
Benefits
- We offer fair and attractive pay
- You’ll get a slice of n8n with equity
- We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
- We provide benefits according to local country norms